{"id":63690,"date":"2014-08-21T09:00:47","date_gmt":"2014-08-21T14:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=63690"},"modified":"2014-08-14T02:04:06","modified_gmt":"2014-08-14T07:04:06","slug":"peach-panties-and-a-new-pinterest-board-sexy-what","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2014\/08\/21\/peach-panties-and-a-new-pinterest-board-sexy-what\/","title":{"rendered":"Peach Panties and a New Pinterest Board: Sexy What!?"},"content":{"rendered":"

@zeyneparsel<\/a> and Stephanie S. both sent in a link to a new craze in China: peach panties. \u00a0I totally made the craze part up — I have no idea about that —\u00a0but the peach panties are real and there is a patent pending<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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I thought they were a great excuse to make a new\u00a0Pinterest board featuring\u00a0examples of marketing that uses sex to sell decidely unsexy — or truly sex-irrelevant — things. \u00a0It’s called Sexy What!?<\/a> and I describe it as follows:<\/p>\n

This board is a collection of totally random stuff being made weirdly and unnecessarily sexual by marketers who — I’m gonna say it — have run out of ideas.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

My favorites are the ads for organ donation, hearing aids, CPR, and sea monkeys. \u00a0Enjoy!<\/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":"

@zeyneparsel and Stephanie S. both sent in a link to a new craze in China: peach panties. \u00a0I totally made the craze part up — I have no idea about that —\u00a0but the peach panties are real and there is a patent pending. I thought they were a great excuse to make a new\u00a0Pinterest board […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":63692,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[225,2124,23703,1772,120],"class_list":["post-63690","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-clothesfashion","tag-foodagriculture","tag-marketing","tag-nation-china","tag-sex"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2014\/08\/15.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63690","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=63690"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63690\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63694,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63690\/revisions\/63694"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}