{"id":25235,"date":"2010-07-09T10:01:45","date_gmt":"2010-07-09T15:01:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=25235"},"modified":"2013-12-05T05:09:46","modified_gmt":"2013-12-05T10:09:46","slug":"this-city-is-a-whore-you-gotta-come","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2010\/07\/09\/this-city-is-a-whore-you-gotta-come\/","title":{"rendered":"This City is a Whore; You Gotta Come"},"content":{"rendered":"

We recently posted about an ad for internet service that used the metaphor of a prostitute<\/a>.\u00a0 It\/she was “fast” and “cheap” with “satisfaction guaranteed.”\u00a0 We also recently posted about national personifications<\/a>, fictional or semi-fictional people used to represent countries.\u00a0 This ad campaign<\/a>, submitted by Mary S., has both.<\/p>\n

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Victoria, a city in British Columbia, is personified as “Victoria,” the sex worker.\u00a0 “Victoria’s cheap,” the ad reads, “but she’ll show you a great time.”\u00a0 The larger message, of course, is that places are like women and women are like places.\u00a0 They are experiences to purchase and consume, preferably cheaply.<\/p>\n

UPDATE:<\/strong><\/span> Some in the comments have suggested that I cropped the ad to make my point.\u00a0 So here is the whole front page of the website, victoriascheap.com:<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\nLisa Wade, PhD<\/a> is an Associate Professor at Tulane University. She is the author of <\/em>American Hookup<\/a>, a book about college sexual culture; a textbook about gender<\/a>; and a forthcoming introductory text: <\/em>Terrible Magnificent Sociology<\/a>.\u00a0You can follow her on Twitter<\/a> and Instagram<\/a>.<\/em><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We recently posted about an ad for internet service that used the metaphor of a prostitute.\u00a0 It\/she was “fast” and “cheap” with “satisfaction guaranteed.”\u00a0 We also recently posted about national personifications, fictional or semi-fictional people used to represent countries.\u00a0 This ad campaign, submitted by Mary S., has both. Victoria, a city in British Columbia, is […]<\/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":[279,229,55,2093,1770,291,307,76],"class_list":["post-25235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-objectification","tag-consumption","tag-gender","tag-gender-objectification","tag-nation-canada","tag-sex-work","tag-traveltourism","tag-work"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25235","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=25235"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25235\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59956,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25235\/revisions\/59956"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}