The upcoming threesome episdoe of Gossip Girl teased in this promo video (season 3, episode 9) is not sitting well with the group Parents Television Council, who is asking CW network affiliates to pre-empt the show.

The Gossip Girl TV ads tease a “3SOME” – an episode which PTC president Tim Winter says is “reckless and irresponsible.”

The promo video doesn’t reveal who will be in the threesome on the November 9 episode.

Winter wrote a letter to CW affiliates about the Gossip Girl episode, asking, “Will you now be complicit in establishing a precedent and expectation that teenagers should engage in behaviors heretofore associated primarily with adult films?”

CW spokesman Paul McGuire maintains that the target audience for Gossip Girl is 18- to 34-year-old women.