Does this creep you out?

[Seraphim]

Hmmm....


That loveseat looks familiar.



Can't quite place it....



Wait a second....that's it!

 

[Face Bannon]

Not all all.

 

[Cobra0369]

Not really. To each his own though.

 

[Aschecte]

No it doesn't creep me out but, I wish all those scents were still available.

 

[August West]

Hmmm....


That loveseat looks familiar.



Can't quite place it....



Wait a second....that's it!

Now that creeps me out!!

 

[SilentTuba]

I always find myself rolling my eyes when people talk about how things were "simpler" or "better" back in the "good old days". More often than not, people view such times through rose colored glasses, remembering a sterilized version of how the world was. As far as people being conditioned to think of sex all the time, give me a break. Sex has been used in advertising ever since there has been advertising. Sex sells, and it always has. We're simply a bit more open about it in our society now, and I don't view that as a bad thing, necessarily.

As for the ad, it's fairly innocuous.

 

[noahpictures]

Our culture has changed and the ad would be considered inappropriate by most if printed today.

Nowadays one of the creepiest things is beauty pageants for little kids.

 

[cb91710]

Nowadays one of the creepiest things is beauty pageants for little kids.

Agreed. Parents trying to live vicariously through their kids.
Same for many (not all) parents who have kids involved in youth sports. You can tell which parents they are too... they are the ones who are always in the ref's or coach's face, they are the one complaining their kid isn't getting enough time on the field...
The decent parents know it's just a game and everyone has a great time. Those are also the parents who produce the kids who will "make it"

 

[Duckster]

 

[Aschecte]

now this ^ creeps me out.

 

[Hunter]

What I have seen, I can not unsee!

 

[Commander Quan]

I always find myself rolling my eyes when people talk about how things were "simpler" or "better" back in the "good old days". More often than not, people view such times through rose colored glasses, remembering a sterilized version of how the world was. As far as people being conditioned to think of sex all the time, give me a break. Sex has been used in advertising ever since there has been advertising. Sex sells, and it always has. We're simply a bit more open about it in our society now, and I don't view that as a bad thing, necessarily.

As for the ad, it's fairly innocuous.

This. Apparently everyone has forgotten about the 30s and 40s when pin up girl images were used to sell everything imaginable.

 

[cb91710]

This. Apparently everyone has forgotten about the 30s and 40s when pin up girl images were used to sell everything imaginable.

But those pinups were mature young women... early Playboy type models... not pre-teens.
Advertising since the late 80s has so sexualized children that it has generated the term "Prosti-Tots"

The ad in question was from the era before this was the case.

 

[ArNav]

 

[cb91710]

Those bother me more than the first one.

 

[rockviper]

I like the PEP one so much I posted it for SWMBO on Facebook

 

[Rudy Vey]

No offense intended to the OP nor to anyone else, but this ad is from an entirely different era back when people weren't conditioned to read sex into most of life. In my opinion, the world was a much saner and better place back then.

+1

 

[Rudy Vey]

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This is creepy, no actually, this is sick.

 

[August West]

Those bother me more than the first one.

+1. The wife is chuckling.

 

[Toltepeceno]

I'm sorry, but to me someone reading "creepy" into the first ad says more about the person than the ad.