{"id":44915,"date":"2012-02-13T12:24:54","date_gmt":"2012-02-13T17:24:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=44915"},"modified":"2017-09-17T13:30:14","modified_gmt":"2017-09-17T18:30:14","slug":"valentines-day-as-sex-for-gifts-exchange","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2012\/02\/13\/valentines-day-as-sex-for-gifts-exchange\/","title":{"rendered":"Valentine&#8217;s Day as Sex-for-Gifts Exchange"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2012\/02\/valentines-night.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-44916\" title=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2012\/02\/valentines-night-500x275.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"275\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2012\/02\/valentines-night-500x275.jpg 500w, https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2012\/02\/valentines-night.jpg 585w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Zeynep P. sent in a commercial for Teleflora, a company that delivers flowers, that, as Zeynep points out, combines objectification with the explicit message that women exchange sexual favors for gifts from men:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/utiBTPtCweI\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The ad normalizes the idea that women would manipulate men with sex, and that men would expect that doing things for women (especially spending money on them) should result in sex. It&#8217;s a winner all around.<\/p>\n<span class=\"ft_signature\"><em>Gwen Sharp is an associate professor of sociology at Nevada State College. You can follow her on Twitter at @gwensharpnv.<\/em><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Zeynep P. sent in a commercial for Teleflora, a company that delivers flowers, that, as Zeynep points out, combines objectification with the explicit message that women exchange sexual favors for gifts from men: The ad normalizes the idea that women would manipulate men with sex, and that men would expect that doing things for women [&hellip;]<\/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":[55,254,120],"class_list":["post-44915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-gender","tag-holidays","tag-sex"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44915","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=44915"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44915\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71460,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44915\/revisions\/71460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}