Yesterday, the dear city of Tokyo experienced a huge threat to their underground transportation system. The transit authorities of the Japanese city came this close to banning advertisements for Harper's Bazaar which features a naked, prego, Britney Spears.

Luckily for everyone involved, that won't actually happen. They reconsidered the publisher's "intention."

But on Thursday, Tokyo Metro said it would allow full presentation of the photo as an exception to its obscenity rule, saying it understood the publisher's intention was to portray a happy mother — not to be sexually explicit.

Oh, really? We actually thought the publisher's intention was to promote birth control … but, happy mom is a good cover, too.

Tokyo subway to display naked Spears ad [AP]