{"id":14515,"date":"2009-10-20T10:38:26","date_gmt":"2009-10-20T15:38:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=14515"},"modified":"2012-10-14T01:51:36","modified_gmt":"2012-10-14T06:51:36","slug":"phallic-symbolism-up-for-interpretation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2009\/10\/20\/phallic-symbolism-up-for-interpretation\/","title":{"rendered":"Phallic Symbolism: Up For Interpretation?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Larry Harnisch, of The Daily Mirror<\/a>, scanned these two ads for Grand Marnier from the latest New Yorker<\/em>.\u00a0 Normally we don’t get too worked up over phallic imagery, but I thought these two might be good for discussion.\u00a0 Besides, it’s been a while since we linked to our awesome collections of ads featuring ejaculation imagery<\/a>, subliminal sex<\/a>, and not-so-subliminal sex (NSFW)<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In the first, the woman greets a man at his door.\u00a0 She is wearing a dress with a very low cut back.\u00a0 She is holding the bottle behind her, angled provocatively.\u00a0 Don’t miss the shape of the bottle itself (and what exactly is that circle at the base of its neck?).<\/p>\n

\"Picture11\"<\/p>\n

In the second ad, the woman sits deep in an armchair, her legs in the air.\u00a0 The bottle, being poured by a man, is tilted towards her, and spilling liquid into her glass.<\/p>\n

\"Picture1\"<\/p>\n

So, Readers, what do you think?\u00a0 Is the bottle meant to be read as a penis subconsciously?\u00a0 Do you think it works that way, intended or not?<\/p>\n

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Lisa Wade is a\u00a0professor of sociology at Occidental College<\/a>. You can follow her on\u00a0Twitter<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Facebook<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Larry Harnisch, of The Daily Mirror, scanned these two ads for Grand Marnier from the latest New Yorker.\u00a0 Normally we don’t get too worked up over phallic imagery, but I thought these two might be good for discussion.\u00a0 Besides, it’s been a while since we linked to our awesome collections of ads featuring ejaculation imagery, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[212,120,23622],"class_list":["post-14515","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-alcohol","tag-sex","tag-social-construction-symbols"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14515","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14515"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14515\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51750,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14515\/revisions\/51750"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}