# Why do they put women's underwear ads in newspapers?

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**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [April 30, 2000, 6:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-they-put-womens-underwear-ads-in-newspapers/18064 "2000-04-30T06:29:37Z")\
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**Author:** ![brittainy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/a88e4f/32.png) [@brittainy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brittainy)\
**Post date:** [May 2, 2000, 2:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-they-put-womens-underwear-ads-in-newspapers/18064/41 "2000-05-02T02:46:16Z")

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Why don’t you go ask someone out for a bagel and then knock them down and make them feel horrible. Something like “My friends wouldn’t want to be depressed by you” That is always something fun to do right?

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**Author:** ![Nanno](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/e9c0ed/32.png) [@Nanno](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nanno)\
**Post date:** [May 2, 2000, 3:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-they-put-womens-underwear-ads-in-newspapers/18064/42 "2000-05-02T03:19:47Z")

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> When you say NOT-SO-TEENAGE boys…do you mean like 46 year old men who live in New Jersey?  
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Thats a good one brittainy, so where do you live that they don’t put mens underwear ads in the paper? I live in the valley of the raisins and we get mens underwear ads for the  
NOT-SO-TEENAGE girls…

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“I’ll sleep when I’m dead” W.Zevon

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**Author:** ![brittainy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/a88e4f/32.png) [@brittainy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brittainy)\
**Post date:** [May 2, 2000, 1:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-they-put-womens-underwear-ads-in-newspapers/18064/43 "2000-05-02T13:35:50Z")

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I live in NE Ohio. I have yet to see a men’s underwear ad in our local paper. I mean we get them in the sales ads but very few and not very often.

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**Author:** ![Mr.Cynical](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ee59a6/32.png) [@Mr.Cynical](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Cynical)\
**Post date:** [May 2, 2000, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-they-put-womens-underwear-ads-in-newspapers/18064/44 "2000-05-02T18:51:47Z")

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[Men in underwear ads article](http://www.straightdope.com/columns/971121.html)

I think that Cecil wanted those of you who have never seen men in underwear ads to check out this article. Perhaps it will explain why you don’t see them often.

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