{"id":368,"date":"2008-01-16T11:15:00","date_gmt":"2008-01-16T16:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2008\/01\/16\/using-womens-bodies-to-sell-residential-developments\/"},"modified":"2009-11-29T14:14:04","modified_gmt":"2009-11-29T19:14:04","slug":"using-womens-bodies-to-sell-residential-developments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2008\/01\/16\/using-womens-bodies-to-sell-residential-developments\/","title":{"rendered":"Using Women’s Bodies to Sell Houses and House-Related Items"},"content":{"rendered":"

I came upon this series of ads in a local Las Vegas magazine (although I’ve forgotten which one; sorry). The first two images were at the front of the magazine.<\/p>\n

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\nI turned to page 13 to see what this super-skinny, barely-dressed woman was being used to sell.<\/p>\n

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\nOf course! Houses!<\/p>\n

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Note the very passive positioning of the model–she looks like she’s about to faint, or maybe is in the act of fainting. And the background on the other two images appears to be gold satin–evoking satin sheets, perhaps?<\/p>\n

Here is an ad, from Metropolitan Home<\/em> magazine, from a home decorating magazine that uses a woman’s body to sell blinds:<\/p>\n

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Scott W. sent us this website<\/a> selling condominiums in northern Boston.\u00a0 Here are a couple screenshots of the completely gratuitous use of\u00a0 a sexy woman and implicit sex:<\/span><\/p>\n

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NEW!<\/strong> <\/span>Sharon G. sent us a photo of a billboard in Tel Aviv with the copy “Go all the way.”\u00a0 It’s selling kitchen remodeling (see the website here<\/a>):<\/p>\n

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See more posts using sex (with women) to sell homes, see here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I came upon this series of ads in a local Las Vegas magazine (although I’ve forgotten which one; sorry). The first two images were at the front of the magazine. I turned to page 13 to see what this super-skinny, barely-dressed woman was being used to sell. Of course! Houses! Note the very passive positioning […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":50,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[279,55,2093,120],"class_list":["post-368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-objectification","tag-gender","tag-gender-objectification","tag-sex"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368","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\/50"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=368"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3586,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368\/revisions\/3586"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}