{"id":4066,"date":"2008-11-13T02:30:55","date_gmt":"2008-11-13T07:30:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=4066"},"modified":"2017-10-01T21:20:08","modified_gmt":"2017-10-02T02:20:08","slug":"using-sex-to-encourage-organ-donation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2008\/11\/13\/using-sex-to-encourage-organ-donation\/","title":{"rendered":"Using Sex To Sell The Most Unlikely Things"},"content":{"rendered":"

Xavier M. sent us a link to this print ad, which he saw in a Belgian men’s magazine, that uses sex to encourage organ donation (found here<\/a>).<\/p>\n

Text: “Becoming a\u00a0donor is probably your only chance to get inside her.”<\/p>\n

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There are some interesting implications here about why we engage in altruism and who is deserving of that altruism.<\/p>\n

See also similar posts on PETA (see here<\/a> and here<\/a>) and human rights violations in Burma<\/a>.<\/p>\n

At AdFreak<\/a>, I discovered that Sea Monkeys are being used to sell sex. Sure enough:<\/p>\n

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NEW (Mar. ’10)! <\/strong><\/span>Christina W. sent in this ad campaign<\/a> for French cheeses using a pin-up calendar:<\/p>\n

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The video<\/a> is a backstage look at a sexy calendar photo shoot for…cheese:<\/p>\n

[vimeo]https:\/\/vimeo.com\/113146614[\/vimeo]<\/p>\n

NEW (Jun. ’10)! <\/strong><\/span>Stephanie DeH. sent in this lovely CPR instructional video (which also got its own post<\/a>):<\/p>\n

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ALSO NEW (Jun. ’10)! <\/strong><\/span>Lindsey Dale, at Nobody<\/a>, collected the following ads selling, with sex, archery, a laser detector, tea, and coffee:<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>\"\"<\/a>\"\"<\/a>\"\"<\/a>\"\"<\/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":"

Xavier M. sent us a link to this print ad, which he saw in a Belgian men’s magazine, that uses sex to encourage organ donation (found here). Text: “Becoming a\u00a0donor is probably your only chance to get inside her.” There are some interesting implications here about why we engage in altruism and who is deserving […]<\/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":[279,2124,55,2093,252,1767,23704,120],"class_list":["post-4066","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-objectification","tag-foodagriculture","tag-gender","tag-gender-objectification","tag-healthmedicine","tag-nation-belgium","tag-public-service-announcements","tag-sex"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4066","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=4066"}],"version-history":[{"count":27,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4066\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71952,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4066\/revisions\/71952"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}