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Author:  LordQuackingstick [ Thu Jan 24, 2008 1:53 am ]
Post subject:  Sex in Advertising
Legitimate marketing tool or exploitation of natural urges?
Author:  AbuGrape45 [ Thu Jan 24, 2008 2:04 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Sex in Advertising
Legitimate marketing tool and exploitation. If you can make someone believe that they will get the same results as the sex subjects they see in advertisements by buying the product being advertised, then you should jump all over it. That doesn't necessarily make it correct, though.
Author:  Ju Ju Master [ Thu Jan 24, 2008 2:43 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Sex in Advertising
LordQuackingstick wrote:
Exploitation of natural urges?

It's possible that there are problems with sex in advertising, but this definitely isn't it. People are responsible for dealing with their own urges. If some guy will buy any product advertised by a woman in a bikini, that's his problem.
Author:  DS_Kid [ Thu Jan 24, 2008 2:52 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Sex in Advertising
I say that, in most situations, it is a fair marketing tool that can surely up your product's sales just because a guy gets sweaty over a scantly-clad woman. However, if it is used in excess for products that shouldn't really need it, then it can become a problem.
Author:  AbuGrape45 [ Thu Jan 24, 2008 4:31 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Sex in Advertising
What that fine young gentlemen just said.
Author:  Schmelen [ Thu Jan 24, 2008 3:36 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Sex in Advertising
It bothers me that children have to deal with it though.

I mean, there are ads for girls' dolls like Bratz that are so... inappropriate.
Author:  racerx_is_alive [ Thu Jan 24, 2008 4:03 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Sex in Advertising
Schmelen wrote:
It bothers me that children have to deal with it though.

I mean, there are ads for girls' dolls like Bratz that are so... inappropriate.


Bratz dolls are inappropriate, full stop.
Author:  furrykef [ Thu Jan 24, 2008 5:43 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Sex in Advertising
Inappropriate for what? Children? Everyone? You can't just say "X is inappropriate"; it has to be inappropriate for something. (Sometimes what it's inappropriate for is implied, but in this case I don't think it is.) So, no, not full stop. ;)
Author:  Choc-o-Lardiac Arrest [ Fri Jan 25, 2008 1:20 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Sex in Advertising
furrykef wrote:
Inappropriate for what? Children? Everyone? You can't just say "X is inappropriate"; it has to be inappropriate for something. (Sometimes what it's inappropriate for is implied, but in this case I don't think it is.) So, no, not full stop. ;)

They're big lipped, big breasted, and come with thousands of whorish dresses and plastic makeup kits.

Also, I think one of their dumb songs has something to do with "Knowing what boys want."
Author:  IantheGecko [ Fri Jan 25, 2008 1:37 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Sex in Advertising
"I Know What Boys Want" was originally a song by The Waitresses in the early 80s. It was their only hit.Image
Author:  LordQuackingstick [ Fri Jan 25, 2008 2:01 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Sex in Advertising
It's not strange that you know that.
Author:  The Noid [ Fri Jan 25, 2008 11:50 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Sex in Advertising
IantheGecko wrote:
"I Know What Boys Want"


I KNOW WHAT THEY LIKE
Author:  Lunar Jesty [ Sat Jan 26, 2008 1:59 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Sex in Advertising
furrykef wrote:
Inappropriate for what? Children? Everyone? You can't just say "X is inappropriate"; it has to be inappropriate for something. (Sometimes what it's inappropriate for is implied, but in this case I don't think it is.) So, no, not full stop. ;)


Can you think of anyone who should possess a Bratz doll? Because I sure can't.
Author:  Choc-o-Lardiac Arrest [ Sat Jan 26, 2008 2:11 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Sex in Advertising
Lunar Jesty wrote:
furrykef wrote:
Inappropriate for what? Children? Everyone? You can't just say "X is inappropriate"; it has to be inappropriate for something. (Sometimes what it's inappropriate for is implied, but in this case I don't think it is.) So, no, not full stop. ;)


Can you think of anyone who should possess a Bratz doll? Because I sure can't.

Teenage parents.
Author:  Schmelen [ Sat Jan 26, 2008 12:03 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Sex in Advertising
furrykef wrote:
Inappropriate for what? Children? Everyone? You can't just say "X is inappropriate"; it has to be inappropriate for something. (Sometimes what it's inappropriate for is implied, but in this case I don't think it is.) So, no, not full stop. ;)


Everybody knows the dolls are made for pre-teen girls. Like, six to twelve year olds. They do have a target audience.
It's inappropriate to them.
I think that's what racerx meant.
Author:  The Zephyr Song [ Sat Jan 26, 2008 9:11 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Sex in Advertising
Sex sells. Simple as that.

Now, that said, "sex appeal" is not always an appropriate factor in advertising, for example to children. Children don't need to be sold a lifestyle that promises them hordes of beautiful members of the opposite sex if they use this or that product.

Bratz dolls just shouldn't exist.
Author:  bwave [ Sat Jan 26, 2008 9:28 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Sex in Advertising
LordQuackingstick wrote:
Legitimate marketing tool or exploitation of natural urges?

When it gets t6o the point where it's just 2 people having sex in bed, and there's a best buy tatto on their back, that's when it's gone too far.
Author:  The Zephyr Song [ Sat Jan 26, 2008 10:26 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Sex in Advertising
bwave wrote:
LordQuackingstick wrote:
Legitimate marketing tool or exploitation of natural urges?

When it gets t6o the point where it's just 2 people having sex in bed, and there's a best buy tatto on their back, that's when it's gone too far.


Or just a girl with BEST BUY written on her chest.

Face it, most of the sex in advertising is display of the female body with a slight focus on the chest and butt.
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