# Most gratuitous use of sex in advertising? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 22, 2007, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-gratuitous-use-of-sex-in-advertising/393227 "2007-02-22T15:25:21Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2007, 1:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-gratuitous-use-of-sex-in-advertising/393227/81 "2007-03-24T13:51:38Z")
[QUOTE=Mouse\_Maven] I’m not sure if logos count as advertising, but [here](http://www.b3ta.com/features/phalliclogoawards/) you go. [/QUOTE] Oh dear Lord. I’ve seen that page before, but my god that’s unbe-fucking-lievably funny. The Czech sausage guy’s expression has tears running down my face from laughing so hard. ---
**Author:** ![ChessPieceFace](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/5f9b8f/32.png) [@ChessPieceFace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ChessPieceFace)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2007, 1:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-gratuitous-use-of-sex-in-advertising/393227/82 "2007-03-24T13:58:11Z")
[QUOTE=Phatlewt] I nominate [American Apparel](http://www.americanapparel.net/gallery/photocollections/models/index.html) for the use of young women in suggestive poses and outfits. The photo galleries linked are used in magazine and poster ads. [/QUOTE] I’ll second American Apparel. I walk by this billboard every day on my way home from work. [http://www.gothamist.com/2007/03/12/seen\_on\_the\_cor.php](http://www.gothamist.com/2007/03/12/seen_on_the_cor.php) ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2007, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-gratuitous-use-of-sex-in-advertising/393227/83 "2007-03-24T15:53:32Z")
[Autolite Annie](http://www.autoliteannie.com/about/autolite_annie.htm). Those watercolors of a girl with long legs and a mechanic’s shirt and cap, sitting on a spark plug, really shouldn’t make me want to refit my airplane engine with that product, but somehow … ---
**Author:** ![ouryL](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ouryl/32/6067_2.png) [@ouryL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ouryL)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2007, 3:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-gratuitous-use-of-sex-in-advertising/393227/84 "2007-03-25T03:52:44Z")
[QUOTE=Mangetout] The one that springs immediately to mind is the thinly disguised fellatio imagery in adverts for Cadbury’s Flake. [![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/kcbhHOZZXnI/hqdefault.jpg "cadburys flake advert") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kcbhHOZZXnI) ![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/wEhfxGGCDzY/maxresdefault.jpg)https://www.youtube.com/embed/wEhfxGGCDzY?feature=oembed&wmode=opaque [/QUOTE] Reminds me of that Taco Bell commercial in which a guy pantmines eating a burrito and mumbling, “I’m so full” :eek: ---
**Author:** ![An\_Gadai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d6d6ee/32.png) [@An\_Gadai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/An_Gadai)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2007, 4:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-gratuitous-use-of-sex-in-advertising/393227/85 "2007-03-25T04:15:11Z")
There was an electric razor released a few years ago that had the gimmick of moisturising your face while you shaved. The advert for it had a woman acting “erotically” and the electric razor ejaculating this moisturiser. It was a weird ad, I dunno who did the product so haven’t been able to find it on youtube or the like. ---
**Author:** ![Evil\_Captor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f17d59/32.png) [@Evil\_Captor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_Captor)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2007, 1:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-gratuitous-use-of-sex-in-advertising/393227/86 "2007-03-25T13:48:50Z")
Mustn’t forget “Aqua Velva” shave cream. And all the hotties who crooned, “There’s something about an Aqua Velva man.” I mean, come on. “Wet Pussy” shave cream. Apply Wet Pussy to your face every morning for a great shaving experience! Pure genius. ---
**Author:** ![Raguleader](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/258eb7/32.png) [@Raguleader](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Raguleader)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2007, 10:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-gratuitous-use-of-sex-in-advertising/393227/87 "2007-03-26T10:08:14Z")
[QUOTE=An Gadaí] There was an electric razor released a few years ago that had the gimmick of moisturising your face while you shaved. The advert for it had a woman acting “erotically” and the electric razor ejaculating this moisturiser. It was a weird ad, I dunno who did the product so haven’t been able to find it on youtube or the like. [/QUOTE] This reminds me of the commercial where the guy uses the new razor, and they are testing the results by having him walk through a gym where women are working out, and you see all these girls running on treadmills turn and look at him, which seems to cause them to forget to keep running, so you see half a dozen women simultaneously yelp and fall of the treadmills. Nothing too sexual about it, but it cracks me up every time I see it. 😃 As for overtly sexual advertising, there is always [this](http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/16324552/) bit that Ivan Flores did for AggieCon 36 (actually, that’s only overtly sexual if you don’t compare it to anything else he has ever drawn involving the female figure; it’s worth saying: careful if you Google him) ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2007, 11:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-gratuitous-use-of-sex-in-advertising/393227/88 "2007-03-26T11:17:11Z")
I’ve always found the [covers of T3 magazine](http://images.google.com/images?sourceid=navclient-ff&ie=UTF-8&rls=GGGL,GGGL:2006-18,GGGL:en&q=t3%20magazine&oe=UTF-8&um=1&sa=N&tab=wi), a [Technology magazine](http://www.t3.co.uk/), were somewhat over the top. ---
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2007, 11:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-gratuitous-use-of-sex-in-advertising/393227/89 "2007-03-26T11:26:09Z")
[QUOTE=Tomcat] bed with one hand while holding the remote in Then there is the [blowjob noodles](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MDIOr_g3xVc). -Tcat [/QUOTE] Curse you, **Tomkat** , I came in to give linky goodness to to Asian Noodle Hummer. ::::shakes Fist angrily::::: ---
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2007, 11:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-gratuitous-use-of-sex-in-advertising/393227/90 "2007-03-26T11:42:34Z")
Good gravy, I had always associated the Swedish Bikini Team with Budweiser. [The Swedish Bikini Team](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LtnMtrEB1-I) proof that the mind plays tricks. Not gratuitous sex, but one of my favs: [Hai Karate](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VAnU9zT87j4) ---
**Author:** ![Mister\_Rik](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mister_rik/32/491_2.png) [@Mister\_Rik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mister_Rik)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2007, 12:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-gratuitous-use-of-sex-in-advertising/393227/91 "2007-03-27T00:20:17Z")
Pot Noodle: It’s Dirty and You Want It! Pot Noodle: The Office Bicycle of All Snacks ---
**Author:** ![Mister\_Rik](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mister_rik/32/491_2.png) [@Mister\_Rik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mister_Rik)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2007, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-gratuitous-use-of-sex-in-advertising/393227/92 "2007-03-27T00:27:13Z")
Oh, and Double A Copier Paper, featuring one of the most beautiful women I’ve ever seen in a commercial 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![ouryL](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ouryl/32/6067_2.png) [@ouryL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ouryL)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2007, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-gratuitous-use-of-sex-in-advertising/393227/93 "2007-03-28T01:41:22Z")
What was that truck commercial with the extended cab big enough in which three grown men can comfortably take their clothes off? :eek: ---
**Author:** ![aluminumdisc](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f6c823/32.png) [@aluminumdisc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aluminumdisc)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2007, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-gratuitous-use-of-sex-in-advertising/393227/94 "2007-03-28T02:34:51Z")
This slogan might cross over the line. [![]( " - YouTube") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vhXSGABS6fo) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-gratuitous-use-of-sex-in-advertising/393227.md?page=4)