{"id":36766,"date":"2011-06-24T10:00:09","date_gmt":"2011-06-24T15:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=36766"},"modified":"2013-11-11T02:43:08","modified_gmt":"2013-11-11T07:43:08","slug":"conflating-college-achievement-with-sexual-prowess","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2011\/06\/24\/conflating-college-achievement-with-sexual-prowess\/","title":{"rendered":"Conflating College Achievement with Sexual Prowess"},"content":{"rendered":"

Over the past few months, a number of readers have sent in examples of college-related advertising with a distinctly sexual theme. \u00a0There’s something interesting here. College pursuit, preparation, and achievement are being conflated with sexual prowess (the size of one’s dick, no less). \u00a0I suppose it was never was really about smarts<\/a>. \u00a0Still, the overt conflation of (masculine) sexual superiority with academic achievement seems new to me. Am I wrong?<\/p>\n

Scott M. and Ed A-N. sent in which penis size is used as a proxy for preparedness for the LSAT:<\/p>\n

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Stephanie A. sent in this ad for MyEdu, a college management site (whatever that is)\u00a0that makes an obvious reference to Viagra (the little blue pill that makes for not-so-little erections):<\/p>\n

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Last but not least, Becky E. and Monica Y. sent in this facebook ad encouraging women to apply to a school loan by suggesting that very-sexy-ladies do the same:<\/p>\n

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See also our post: using sex to sell the most unlikely things (like organ donation!)<\/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":"

Over the past few months, a number of readers have sent in examples of college-related advertising with a distinctly sexual theme. \u00a0There’s something interesting here. College pursuit, preparation, and achievement are being conflated with sexual prowess (the size of one’s dick, no less). \u00a0I suppose it was never was really about smarts. \u00a0Still, the overt […]<\/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":[209,34,55,2087,23703,120],"class_list":["post-36766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-academia","tag-education","tag-gender","tag-gender-masculinity","tag-marketing","tag-sex"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36766","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=36766"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36766\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58820,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36766\/revisions\/58820"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}