The best Abstinence Campaign PSA never made

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So, you’re looking for a way to connect with the kids, to tell them that there is no pressure to disrobe to soon. The problem is that you’re a 40-year-old advertising executive, and can’t relate the way used to. That’s where we come in. Think of us like your “man on the inside”, cleverly disguising ourselves and surreptitiously floating you tips from the bowels of the teen-friendly indie Oz.

Who could forget the best song from the wholly forgettable artist Jermaine Stewart? Former Shalamar and Culture Club background vocalist turned chaste pop sensation? Anyone?

Let us refresh your memory-

Remember? Well, Jermaine is hot right now.

Not only did Gym Class Heroes interpolate the chorus into their song “Clothes Off”, but the Toronto-based Kids On TV released a cover version on their album Mixing Business With Pleasure.

Listen to Kids On TV’s version of “We Don’t Have To Take Our Clothes Off”

The Kids On TV version oozes enough of that perfect cocktail of “cooler-than-thou” and “accessible-and-fun” to really get a high school sophmore to re-evaluate their attitudes towards modern society’s lax sexual mores (though it may leave them with a taste for cherry wine).

If you can’t mine the treasures of the 80s and re-smelt it into 2007 gold, then you’re not trying hard enough. [ms]