Jezebel: Sex Sells

Finally, A Booze Ad That Objectifies A Dude [NSFW]

Whitney Jefferson — Fri, 17 Jun 2011 16:50:00 EDT

Copyranter directs us to an interesting ad for a brewing company in Bucharest; they make creative use for the beer bottles, no? We have to admit, it's nice to see an alcohol ad focusing on the male physique, for once. More »

Diesel Takes The Dov Charney Approach

Katy Kelleher — Wed, 11 Aug 2010 12:43:00 EDT

We'll say one thing for the new Diesel campaign: they certainly make it hard to criticize, since it's redundant to point out the exceptional stupidity in something with the tagline "Be Stupid". More »

Hungarian Girl Auctions Off Her Virginity To A Nice Gentleman

Katy Kelleher — Thu, 05 Aug 2010 10:47:00 EDT

An 18-year-old Hungarian girl, who is known only as her blog-name "Miss Spring," recently sold her virginity for £200,000. The bidding started on eBay, but they quickly shut it down and Miss Virgin Spring was forced to go rogue. More »

Michigan Coffee Shops Increase Sales With Lingerie-Clad Baristas

Hortense Smith — Sat, 31 Jul 2010 17:00:00 EDT

It sounds more like the plot of an 80s sex comedy than real life, but apparently sales at two coffee shops in Michigan have soared after the management placed their baristas in lingerie and bikinis. [UPI] More »

Russians Use Boobs To Sell Insurance

Katy Kelleher — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 17:20:00 EDT

A Russian company has un-creatively decided to use boobs to sell car insurance. The commercial, visible after the jump (and totally NSFW) shows headless women with cars painted on their breasts being groped and jiggled. It's a wreck. More »

Fat Dogs Don't Get Laid, Just Cuckolded

Irin Carmon — Mon, 03 May 2010 14:20:00 EDT

Dawn breaks in a field. A border collie reports faithfully for duty, only to find his lover hasn't been as faithful. Locked in an embrace with... a mutt? Dagger to the heart. If only he'd kept his weight under control. More »

Don't Blame Porn For The Plastic Female

Katy Kelleher — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 13:40:00 EDT

Certain critiques have been leveled at Western culture so often that they've almost become truisms: plastic surgery has gone too far, children have been overly sexualized, women just don't know what they want. But these (valid) criticisms raise certain questions. More »

Retailer Apologizes For Sexualizing Kids

Katy Kelleher — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 09:20:00 EDT

UK clothing chain Primark has apologized for its line of padded bikini tops that fit girls as young as seven. The company has offered to donate profits from the inappropriate swim suits to a children's charity. [BBC] More »

Rachel Uchitel, Bottle Service, And The Gray Market For Sex

Anna North — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 09:30:00 EDT

New York Magazine's Lisa Taddeo has scored an interview with alleged Tiger Woods ur-mistress Rachel Uchitel, who paints a depressing picture of the bottle girls of Vegas and New York and the Woods wannabes who sleep with them. More »

Cities Across America Reject PETA Ads

Katy Kelleher — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 13:40:00 EDT

PETA has done a lot of things to piss people off, but their newest offer - to help cash-strapped cities pay off their deficit through ads on trash cans - makes us wonder if anyone can stomach the organization. More »

Mile High Message

Katy Kelleher — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 11:20:00 EST

Attention passengers: the skycouch is not for forking. Air New Zealand wants you to know that their so-called "cuddle class" is not to be used for afternoon delights. But spooning is cool - just keep those prongs to yourself. [Copyranter] More »

Does This Make You Thirsty, Baby? Orangina Ad Leaves Bad Taste

Katy Kelleher — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 12:40:00 EST

We've discussed a lot of strange and "sexy" ads here, but Orangina's new panther-dominatrix clip may be the weirdest of them all. And as a bonus, it even plays sexual assault for laughs. More »

Hot Shots: Basketball Team Photos Raise Questions Of Homophobia

Katy Kelleher — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 12:20:00 EST

The picture at left is taken from the website for Florida State University's women's basketball team. While it looks seems inocuous enough, these glam shots have sparked a debate about the persistent problem of homophobia in women's sports. More »

Madam Claims Playmates For Hire; $10,000 A "Date"

Dodai Stewart — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 10:30:00 EST

Former Hollywood madam Michelle Braun alleges that Hugh Hefner's "girls" are actually call girls/hookers. During her 11-year career, Braun's clients were kings, athletes and, she hints, maybe even a host of American Idol. She's writing a book, naturally. [Page Six] More »

"The Magic Is In The Hole"

Katy Kelleher — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 12:40:00 EDT

Bitch Magazine turned down this ad, for Voodoo Doughnuts in Portland, on the grounds that it "goes against our mission statement to be anti-sexist." We agree, and add: Pubic hair and doughnuts are two things best enjoyed separately. [AnimalNewYork] More »

Women In Sports: Sex Objects, Mothers, Or Too "Manly" To Count

Katy Kelleher — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 17:00:00 EDT

Two very different articles from this weekend have lead us to wonder: Will female athletes ever be able to drop the female and be seen as just athletes? More »

Clinton Focuses On Women's Rights In Graduation Speech • Child "Breastfeeding" Her Doll Causes Parents To Panic

Katy Kelleher — Thu, 21 May 2009 17:40:00 EDT

• Hilary Clinton to the Barnard graduating class: "Women's progress is more than a matter of morality. It is a political, economic, social and security imperative...If you want to know how stable, healthy, and democratic a country is, look at its women, look at its girls." • More »

Female Anchors Object To The Fox-ification Of MSNBC

Megan Carpentier — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 15:30:00 EDT

MSNBC's Melissa Francis and Contessa Brewer, stuck introducing a story on women resorting to stripping this afternoon, nailed producers' reasoning: "Look, this is a great excuse to show women in fishnets up against a pole." More »

Hard Cider

Katy Kelleher — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 09:40:00 EDT

The ad agency behind this Dutch commercial for Heineken cider claims that it subverts gender norms by showing a group of hot, apple-picking guys shirtless. What say you: female eye candy or pure objectification? [AdFreak] More »

Bukkake Alert

Dodai Stewart — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 09:45:00 EDT

A reader sent us a link to these offensive Russian milk ads. Passive women and splattered white stuff ≠ dairy. (More after the jump.) Related, sorta? Oregon's new bill. [English Russia, Shakesville, BoingBoing] More »

People: Please Shut Up About Diablo Cody's Sex Work Already

Anna Holmes — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 13:40:00 EST

Oscar-winner Diablo Cody turned up on Jimmy Kimmel Live last night to promote her highly-rated (if critically-panned) series The United States of Tara...and, as usual, she was asked about her stint as a stripper. More »

Glamour Greets New Year With Lots Of Nookie

Margaret Hartmann — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 11:45:00 EST

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It's hard to sell magazines in January and February (thus, the emaciated issues currently appearing on newsstands ), but judging from the cover, Glamour has devised a new gimmick to sell the February issue: sex! More »

In Our Society, Porn Is "Everywhere You Look"

Dodai Stewart — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 15:00:00 EDT

We've written about advertisers taking cues from porn a few times. But it's not just ads: With David Duchovny in rehab for sex addiction, Christie Brinkley's ex-husband's $3,000-a-month Internet porn habit in the news, nymphet Miley Cyrus in Vanity Fair and Kim Kardashian — famous for having a sex tape — as one of the "stars" on Dancing With The Stars, explicit sex references are constantly (heh) in our faces. Writes Salon's Tracy Clark-Flory: "In order to consume porn, one no longer has to sheepishly ask the checkout clerk for a copy of Barely Legal, or slump down in the back row of an X-rated movie theater, because porn is no longer marginalized. In fact, it's everywhere you look." More »

This Tom Ford ad has been banned in Italy...

Jennifer — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 13:30:00 EDT

This Tom Ford ad has been banned in Italy following claims of indecency. Really, no further commentary is needed. Click on the picture for larger view. [Radar] More »

Swedish legislators are trying to pass a...

Jennifer — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 16:30:00 EST

Swedish legislators are trying to pass a law wherein all advertisements "construed as offensive to women or men" would be banned in the country. Question: how will people know what to buy if there isn't a half-naked person telling them to do so? [AdFreak] More »

Recognizing that women of all shapes and...

Tracie Egan Morrissey — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 10:45:00 EDT

Recognizing that women of all shapes and sizes like to get freaky, eXtreme Restraints, "the ultimate fetish store," has added plus-sized lingerie to its line. Right now they only offer a few leather and fishnet items — lace-up teddies, bras, buckle bustiers — but they plan on expanding the selection over the next few months. But what seems to be a positive step toward inclusion was sort of undermined by the site's affiliate manager James Medina when he said, "As the joke goes, plus-size women are a growing market." [eXtreme Restraint via AVN] More »

Adriana Lima's ability to sell bras? Old...

Jennifer — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 15:45:00 EDT

Adriana Lima's ability to sell bras? Old news. Adriana Lima's virginity? Also old news. Adriana Lima's ability to sell virginity? Now that's a new one! FOXNews.com quotes 20-year old Kate Jones as saying, "Thanks to Adriana, all my friends and I are advocating chastity. We believe a lot of young girls have forgotten how to respect themselves, and it's about time we went back to some old-fashioned values." Since when was "old-fashioned values" synonymous with "half-naked underwear models who once dated Derek Jeter"? [FOXNews.com] More »

Vintage Ad Sells A Better-Tasting Vagina?

Tracie Egan Morrissey — Mon, 27 Aug 2007 17:30:00 EDT

In this ad from 1936, canned-food company Del Monte lets housewives in on the "secret" to putting a smile on their husbands' faces: Pineapple juice! Pineapple juice is thought to be a home remedy for making vaginas (and semen) taste "better", and Del Monte, knowing that the way to a man's heart is through oral, really laid it on thick in the copy of the ad:

If you want to change grouches to grins — give that man of yours Del Monte Pineapple Juice. Cater to his fondness for flavor. Men like the rich, ripe taste of this juice — the definite pineapple flavor it has. They like its freshness—the bracing refreshment it always brings. You'll know how extra good this juice must be!

View the full ad after the jump. More »