Bans on cell phone use while driving have recently spurred legislation in the United States, but in East Africa it's not the ubiquitous communication accessory that has legislators worried. It's women's clothes.

A minister in Uganda has said that women wearing miniskirts in the street are essentially walking around naked and that they are responsible in part for distracting drivers and causing traffic accidents. Nsaba Buturo is blaming some male drivers in his country for being "weak mentally." He is trying to get skirts declared "indecent" under Ugandan law, which would allow authorities to fine or otherwise punish offenders.

"If you find a naked person you begin to concentrate on the make-up of that person and yet you are driving," he said. "These days you hardly know who is a mother from a daughter, they are all naked."

Question Raised: What's more distracting to male drivers -- the cell phone or the miniskirt?

We may embrace miniskirts stateside, but we doesn't mean we don't love to ban stuff that's deemed too racy. Check out the banned ads below to see what we mean.

Banned Ads

    Britain's Advertising Standards Authority banned this bathroom-friendly ad for being offensive. Designer Tanner Krolle claimed the couple couldn't be having sex because the man's trousers were still on. (That would be news to anyone who lost their virginity at the prom.)

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    Skechers pulled this ad after a nurses's group complained it advanced a negative stereotype of their profession. Yet similar ads with Christina Aguilera appearing as teacher and student and cop and criminal continued to run. (Why Skechers overlooked the titillating Hot Lunch Lady we'll never know.)

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    By digitally modifying a model for the purpose of exploiting her sexuality, this Bicardi ad violated the Canadian Code of Advertising. (Maybe the Canucks were really offended because the ad implied there's something better than beer.)

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    This cheeky ad campaign for the Washlet, a heated toilet seat, ran in various magazines but was banned from Times Square when a judge agreed the advertisement interfered with the religious mission of the Times Square Church below.

    adage.com

    Once New York's Metro Transit Authority realized "get brain" was slang for oral sex, this poster was banned from all city vehicles. (We can relate to the confusion. The model appears to be offering up something entirely different.)

    CNN

    McDonald publicly apologized for this ad, claiming it had not been aware that the phrase "I'd hit it" is often used to express sexual interest. (We're going to give fast food chain the benefit of the doubt here since the "it" in question is a double cheeseburger. Now if it had been their baked apple pie ...)

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    Auckland International Airport officials nixed this ad depicting former Miss Universe Jennifer Hawkins getting "horny" with a stuffed rhino. Debunking, the old sheepherder stereotype that New Zealanders are into inter-species shenanigans.

    This poster for the movie "Rules of Attraction" was banned in America for using stuffed animals to, well, turn on a nation of plushie fetishists.

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    Concerns as to just where the model's thumb was headed resulted in this print ad getting the thumbs down from British censors. (And the thumbs up from 13-year-olds boys everywhere.)

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    Mattel demanded The Body Shop remove this self-esteem poster featuring a rubenesque anti-Barbie because it was insulting to the real Barbie. The ad was actually pulled from some stores in the United States after some people found this doll offensive for different reasons.

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