Oh, Woman’s Day, you’ve really gone and done it this time. Their October 1, 2010 issue features an advertorial (usually put together by the rag and a company’s brand strategy team) for Summer’s Eve, a company that makes personal care products for women, which suggests that th[...]
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Google Kicks Cougars Out
Earlier this month, the site CougarLife.com, which connects older women with younger men, got a bit of a nasty shock from Google. The search engine giant, which was receiving $100,000 a month from CougarLife to manage its advertising and place it on content pages, told CougarLife that its ads, which[...]
April 12th, 2010 - 8:21 PM § in Advertising, Culture
Menstrual Tweets — Really?
Not to fall behind Kotex in embracing open discussion of menstruation, Tampax has apparently launched MenstrualTweets, an aggregator collecting the Twittersphere’s 140-character missives about — you guessed it: cramps, PMS, tampons, cycles, and periods. As with most aggregators, we’[...]
March 24th, 2010 - 7:36 AM § in Advertising, Culture
Can’t Say “Vagina” on TV
Kotex has decided to tackle ridiculous advertising for tampons with a brilliant campaign called U by Kotex. This campaign is the first step for Kotex in addressing how we talk about menstruation and vaginal health as a society. “Society has created shame and embarrassment around periods and va[...]
March 19th, 2010 - 9:00 AM § in Advertising, Culture
Durex Ads: Um, WTF?
Advertising commentators are all about this Durex ad campaign by the German designer Andrej Krahne, but we here at Sex and the 405 have a question: why is the woman made up of shiny happy words while the man is made of neutral or negative ones? We hate to get all Jezebel on this, but [...][...]
March 3rd, 2010 - 8:12 PM § in Advertising, Culture
Love Thy Neighbor!
Most of the time, our editrix shuns the “go green” movement as a tool of evil to guilt us out of private jets and into commercial aircraft that treat us like cattle. Every once in a while, though, a company will harness our fear of destroying the planet into a clever marketing campaign. [...]
February 13th, 2010 - 11:00 AM § in Advertising, Culture
Women vs. Men (The Pity Party)
We here at Sex and the 405 are mildly amused and also a little bit sad. At once. How uncomfortable. Below is the Dodge Charger Superbowl ad. Below that is “the female version” response. The spoof response: We have a choice, you know. We don’t have to do any of these things. We know[...]
Do You Take It In The Ass? (NSFW)
A question we’re sure a lot of people wish they could ask on a first date, but tend not to. As with anything that might be important to you, we here at Sex and the 405 think you should certainly ask. Don’t let them kid you, sexual compatibility is important in a relationship: We are [...[...]
Porn Star for the Neutering and Spaying of Animals
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, otherwise known as PETA, is well-known for its controversial, largely WTF? campaigns. Just last month, they got hell (literally) for some ads featuring Playboy model Joanna Kruga naked save for a crucifix. Now, once again exercising their cleverness (not [...]
December 28th, 2009 - 8:52 AM § in Advertising, Culture
Carl’s Jr. Sells Sex–err, Salads with Kim Kardashian
Some may say that Carl’s Jr. has pioneered the art of making real-life food porn with pop culture-relevant sexpots. I say they have pioneered the commercials with so many different messages that you’re not entirely sure what is being sold until the end. Remember the 2005 Carl’s Jr.[...]