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    women is used for the sex appeal in advertising to help sell a particular product or services. Mainstream advertising such as magazines, television, and online media outlets, use sex and it has become present in every promotional message for a wide range of brands. Sex in advertising can be highly overt or extremely subtle and, on some level, subliminal on many levels. I do not agree with how they use sex in advertising when they don’t educated young men and women about sex. Studies show that most

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    level: 11 Date: 14 November 2014 Teacher: Miss Spermon Analysing Perfume Advertisements Imagine what will happen to the world without media and advertisements. Can we even try to limit how advertising floods our lives? Can our minds develop an intellectual way of thinking and behaving under a restricted amount of media? In the society that we live in today, seems like everywhere we look, we are surrounded by advertisements. These advertisements

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    Large corporations will do what it takes to sell their products. Sex sells and has for a long time there for businesses exploit this while negative stereo types are associated with women. This may not seem like an issue for some however the sexism people see in advertisements find their way into the status quo. Young children even educated adults absorb the information they see in advertisements and deem what they represent appropriate and then reproduce it essentially dehumanizing women. Vintage

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    very strong issue in our society. With the idea that “sex sells”, consumers don’t even realize that they’re not viewing the advertisements for what they are, but for the women (or men) that are being portrayed in a very erotic way, posed with whatever product they were hired to sell. Many articles have been written so far to challenge and assess this problem, but one written by Jean Kilbourne (1999), “”Two Ways a Woman Can Get Hurt”: Advertising and Violence” holds an extensive amount of authority

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    No one utilizes the power of sexual suggestion like car companies. In today’s world, cars have become a sex symbol, and in the race to sell their brands, the top players in the industry have tried to out-sex each other, at one point or another. Some ads don't even feature a car. Throughout the past 60 years car advertisements have changed significantly. In the 1950s, families were used to show cars were ideal and the way of the future, while the 1980s and 1990s showed biased “fact” based arguments

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    always successful by its efficient ways of convincing people to buy their product. A way Stetson approached advertising is starring Tom Brady. The football star was used as a model to promote the brand. The advertising image successfully sells the product because it fanaticizes a dream that if you buy the product you will take Tom Brady’s place, it urges the audiance to buy the product because of sex appeal, and the landscape of the image just lavishes upon a calm and soothing mood. The image successfully

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    In advertising, companies tend to use images in which they believe will help to promote and sell their product. One of the most common techniques that is seen in today’s society is the stereotypical portrayal of women, who tend to pose rather promiscuously as seen in Figure One. These types of images portray women as sex objects or as submissive housewives to their husbands. This comes into context with the advertising in which American Apparel portrays. American Apparel has drawn a lot of attention

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    of its greatest purposes is advertising, which is a form of communication that is always intended to influence its viewers, listeners or readers to purchase a specific item, product or service as opposed to another. Even though many people don’t seem to realize it, advertisements, and especially television advertisements, are very powerful and are designed to affect our decisions (Schiffman 29). A lot of them use the power of sensualization because they know that sex sells; they try to convince the

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    However, people never realize that these ads seen on a daily basis have an effect on our society; especially on women. Advertisers like to appeal to our fears, hopes, desires, concepts of success, worth, love, and beauty. When we focus on the effects advertising has on women, our results are mostly negative. The main purpose of an advertisement is to inform; however, advertisements also persuade negative views towards beauty and sexism Beauty, particularly a woman's, is supposed to come from within. The

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    The Perfect Image Four hundred twelve billion dollars. That is how much money is spent each year on advertising in the United States, according to a report by Outsell Inc. in 2008 (How Much Money). Marketing is a huge consumer persuasion element in the United States. People are persuaded to buy things from ads in magazines, billboards, and online advertising. Advertisements have been around for a significant amount of time and have drastically changed over the years. Over the past few decades

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