{"id":8757,"date":"2009-05-28T13:07:17","date_gmt":"2009-05-28T18:07:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=8757"},"modified":"2012-10-22T19:44:32","modified_gmt":"2012-10-23T00:44:32","slug":"using-crotches-to-sell-stuff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2009\/05\/28\/using-crotches-to-sell-stuff\/","title":{"rendered":"Using Crotches To Sell Stuff"},"content":{"rendered":"

In response to Gwen’s post on butts<\/a>, I offer you crotches.\u00a0 We’re being super highbrow today.<\/p>\n

The following not-safe-for-work ads place a product (or copy) at a woman’s crotch.\u00a0 Are they promising sexual access?\u00a0 Just trying to draw attention?\u00a0 Using shock tactics?\u00a0 I don’t know.<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

\"circa\"<\/p>\n

\"halodrolliquigels\"<\/p>\n

\"seductive_search2\"<\/p>\n

\"badad_longchamp_mosscrotch1\"<\/p>\n

And, then, there’s always Tom Ford’s rather famous iterations of the crotch shot (I know, we’ve had these on the blog before, but…):<\/p>\n

\"tom_ford_men_crotch1\"<\/p>\n

\"tomford\"<\/p>\n

NEW! <\/span> Dmitriy T. M. sent in this ad for London Fog<\/a>:<\/p>\n

\"SPL116367_003\"<\/p>\n

See also our posts on subliminal-ish sex in advertising<\/a>, not-at-all-subliminal sex in advertising<\/a>, and ejaculation imagery<\/a>.<\/p>\n

(Images found here<\/a>, here<\/a>, here<\/a>, here<\/a>, here<\/a>, and here<\/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":"

In response to Gwen’s post on butts, I offer you crotches.\u00a0 We’re being super highbrow today. The following not-safe-for-work ads place a product (or copy) at a woman’s crotch.\u00a0 Are they promising sexual access?\u00a0 Just trying to draw attention?\u00a0 Using shock tactics?\u00a0 I don’t know. Lisa Wade, PhD is an Associate Professor at Tulane University. […]<\/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":[218,55,2103,23703,120],"class_list":["post-8757","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-bodies","tag-gender","tag-gender-bodies","tag-marketing","tag-sex"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8757","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=8757"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8757\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52210,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8757\/revisions\/52210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}