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Does Having Innuendo in Ads Cheapen Sex?
emnmnme
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When you think of fast food, you think of Ronald McDonald and fried chicken strips. When you're ordering your Whopper combo, the last thing on your mind is how your value meal can be sexed up. So why are fast food ads slowly filling with innuendo?
Kinky Roleplaying!
Wife Swapping!
Bestiality!
They're attention-grabbing, sure, especially for fast food commercials, but isn't it pushing our perceptions of sex in all sorts of directions, many of them wrong? Fast food is quick, meaningless, full of empty (delicious) calories - why should it be associated with tender, fire-side love making in any way? Advertisers have been relying on 'Sex sells!' for so long ... are these ads harmless attempts at humor or are they causing a slow-paced degeneration towards the drive-thru brothels seen in the movie Idiocracy?
Kinky Roleplaying!
Wife Swapping!
Bestiality!
They're attention-grabbing, sure, especially for fast food commercials, but isn't it pushing our perceptions of sex in all sorts of directions, many of them wrong? Fast food is quick, meaningless, full of empty (delicious) calories - why should it be associated with tender, fire-side love making in any way? Advertisers have been relying on 'Sex sells!' for so long ... are these ads harmless attempts at humor or are they causing a slow-paced degeneration towards the drive-thru brothels seen in the movie Idiocracy?
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It's ridiculous to view these ads as even halfway controversial when people don't think twice when they see someone getting shot on a TV show or ad.
My question is... is there a way we can blame this on gay marriage?
No. Those are ads. Ads tend not to push a sane person's perceptions of sex in "all sorts of directions".
I watched the ads, I still have trouble associating the two things.
Unfortunately, no.
Edit: And yeah, those are some pretty bad ads.
True. Why would you go to a brothel when you can just make a phone call?
Ads manipulate emotions. If an ad doesn't fill me with desire for a double patty cheeseburger or a deep dish pizza, the ad has failed.
Like most alarmists, I look at where we are now and what our standards are. Then I pick and choose my selected evidence to try and paint a trend for the future based on nothing really factual.
The result is: Sex has meaning now to average people. Sex will have less meaning in the future if we don't value it now.
This is destroying America!
Yes, but not often do they give you a raging boner.
PS: Actually, you're wrong. TV Ads are mainly about new product announcements and brand recognition.
And he tried to tell you that that meaning varies. Did you read his post?
so thread over now right
Not really. No one's answered whether or not being surrounded by innuendo every day will warp a person or cheapen/degrade our views on sex.
The answer is no, it won't. But why won't it?
Edit: Ah.
Why can a person only view sex in one single light?
Just how bored are you today?
I'm posting fast food commercials with sex appeal in them. How can you even ask that?
One can dream.
Edit: it's shit like this that's the reason I rarely watch TV and don't have cable.
the "no true scotch man" fallacy.
There's entirely too much meaning inserted into it
but they're listening to every word I say
The commercials I actually miss more than the programming. I stopped having cable when I realized the only thing I was actually getting for my money that didn't cause brain-atrophy was Cartoon Network, and I can get that for free on the tuberwebs. (they were right on top of streaming shit from their websites) A lot of commercials are really dumb and some are outright offensive (though the ones in this thread all fall under the former), but some are funnier than the programs they support. Actually the Dairy Queen one was kind of funny in a stupid way, even.
yes.
I hate it. Mostly because I never realized before it how much the Arby's hat looks like a dong. Now there's a neon penis sticking into the sky whenever I go eat lunch.
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My wife did too.
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I hate you. You are everything wrong with our society.
Why? Because our sense of humor is different than yours? We like "potty humor?"
Who gives a shit? To coin a phrase, it's not for you.
https://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561197970666737/
The phrase has already been coined.
Also, your sense of humor is different in the way that "wrong" is different from "not wrong".
There needs to be some decent discussion of something at least sort of related to the OP or this things going to get locked faster than... umm... a really fast lock on... an expensive bike... that needs locking. Or something.
I'm still bloated with Christmas dinner, so shut up.
Hence where the :rolleyes: needs to come back.
Really, our sense(s?) of humor is not wrong, it's just different than yours. Sorry I laugh at fart gags and "your mom" jokes. Sorry vague sexual innuendo is funny to us. I didn't mean to be the cause of the moral decline of America.
As for the ads cheapening sex, I don't see how. I agree with another poster, that sex could use to be cheapened a bit in this country. It's not like my wife and I don't think sex is special, but people are way too uptight about it. If anything, I think the commercials do nothing about sex itself, but the reactions from people make discussion of sex more difficult.
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I do actually have some ad for Cif (apparently a furniture wipe) that says it's for all the shiny things in your life and shows a latex-suited woman who looks vaguely embarassed at admitting she shines herself with furniture wipes.
In fact, I'm going to go look at that picture again.