Some of those are obviously phallic. Some of them they seem to be reaching.
But the first one? For the “Booty” Salon - uhhh… guys… that’s a naked woman not a pair of testicles - sexual yes, phallic no.
Well goodness, doesn’t someone have to mention the shampoo/orgasm commercial? I’ve had plenty of orgasms in the the shower but never from shampooing my hair. Even when I was 10 I knew that wasn’t how it was done.
I don’t think sex can be gratuitous when used to sell clothes. A lot of people wear certain clothes to look sexy, after all.
…please, do not ask me to explain this one. Possibly not work safe, for those who don’t want to click, read below…
3 girls bounce on bouncy balls, fall off, drink lime milk, then start bouncing again.
This Asian one came up when I looked at the Nissan one. Warning: It is safe for work but it doesn’t *sound * safe for work.
I’ll be in my bunk.
I’d add to this the Axe commercial that has the soft sigh of a woman at the very end. That is I think the sexiest sound in the world.
Or she has Candida.
This sounded funny enough but was even better than I could have imagined.
Sunrazor, the Swedish Bikini Team was for Milwaukee’s Best, not Budweiser.
Carl, who drank way too much of the Beast in college
Me either. Not to hijack or anything, but what is Flake, anyway. Chocolate obviously, but is it worked some way to get that texture or is there some sort of additive? We have a cookie whose name escapes me (Fiddlesticks?) that are enrobed in chocolate then rolled in cornflake bits. I detest 'em.
In those days known as “Old Milwaukee,” or “Old Millwater.”
That would be in an ad for yogurt.
Sorry, obscure Red v Blue reference. It fits too well not to use it, even if I am the only one here who gets it.
One I still recall to this day was done on the radio, for a local (I assume) pager company. This was back when pagers were a serious option and cell phones were just starting to explode onto the market.
Anyway. It opens with the Announcer Voice stating something along the lines of, “We’ve hung 200 of our Model XXX pagers on a volunteer to demonstrate the power of the vibrating buzzer.”
BZZZZ!, along with various female moans and whimpers.
“As you can see, our pagers–” “CALL ME AGAIN! OH GOD, CALL ME RIGHT NOW!”
I damn near drove off the road laughing.
Actually - they’re different beers. Miller makes Milwaukee’s Best, aka The Beast, and its ilk. PBR brews the concoction known as Old Milwaukee (although according to Wikipedia, Old Milwaukee "is currently brewed under contract by Miller).
Anyways - I can promise you, as someone who’s drunk vats of cheap swill, they are different beers.
Whoops. It was Old Milwaukee. My mistake.
This is what happens when you drink too much cheap beer.
I nominate American Apparel for the use of young women in suggestive poses and outfits. The photo galleries linked are used in magazine and poster ads.
There’s a zine I always pick up if for no other reason that there’s always an AA ad on the back. Sex sells, no doubt. It hasn’t gotten me in their store yet, but I do view their ads, and that’s always a good thing.
Fully agree, like ‘Hey, we’re not really being sexist, we’re making fun of ads that are sexist!’ Only I hope the nation’s 10-year-old girls are smart enought o know the difference. If not, well, only a few more years and they can have tits of their very own for the objectifying!
How old ARE you? I’m 52 and I only noticed it because that word is SO 2002!
Note: I have teenagers so I know these things. YMMV.
I don’t know what lime milk is, but I’m not sure I care.