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January 9, 2008
Visit folloving pages to learn more about the issue of sex in advertising…
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3778/is_200201/ai_n9032366 - Most useful Webpage. “Sex in advertising research: A review of content, effects, and functions of sexual information in consumer advertising” as a part of “Annual Review of Sex Research,” done by Tom Reichert, year 2002. Page analyzes every aspect of Sex in Advertising. Describes the historical point of view, types of advertisement featuring explicit images, finding them in popular media, their effects (emotional, physiological, attitudinal etc.), analyzes the historical and also recent research… If you want to more about this issue, this would be the “Number 1″ Source to be recommended.
http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~taflinge/sex.html - Webpage about Sex and Advertising created by Richard F. Taflinger, PhD and professor from the State University of Washington in 1996 describing examples of older commercials featuring sexual images and analyzes the whole issue from more points of view. Page aslo offers the reader more links connected with this problemacy and has picturial additions. R. F. Taflinger is one of the best experts about this issue.
http://www.fanny-hill.net/html/r1_erotic_advertising.htm - A big database of Erotic Advertising. Actually contains pictures starting from the 1950′s. With every advert offers also a small paragraph about the background of it. Some commercials are really interesting, considering the year when they were created.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/6900665.stm - A BBC NEWS Article describing the material world of humanity, contains very interesting commentaries of people from the whole world.
http://inventorspot.com/articles/ads_prove_sex_sells_5576?page=0%2C2 - “15 Ads That Prove Sex Sells… Best?” – Very interesting page with pictures that might really surprise you. According to the name, this page really proves that Sex Sells.
http://www.bgsu.edu/departments/tcom/faculty/ha/sp2003/gp1/Article1.html - Webpage mainly focusing on the topic of women in advertisements.
http://www.soc.ucsb.edu/sexinfo/?article=activity&refid=026 - Webpage discussing the sexuality in Mass Media in more or less critical view.
