Calvin Klein pushes the envelope again and the network news once again feigns concern. Some of us with daughters continue to worry about long-term serious damage rather than momentary titillation.
Note to file: sex still sells
- Post author:Erich Vieth
- Post published:June 23, 2009
- Post category:advertising / Psychology Cognition / Sex
- Post comments:2 Comments
Erich Vieth
Erich Vieth is an attorney focusing on civil rights (including First Amendment), consumer law litigation and appellate practice. At this website often writes about censorship, corporate news media corruption and cognitive science. He is also a working musician, artist and a writer, having founded Dangerous Intersection in 2006. Erich lives in St. Louis, Missouri with his two daughters.
Not to fear, Erich. Consider the target audience that the advertiser is apparently aiming for: teenagers with a ridiculous excess of disposable income and a dearth of parental supervision; i.e., not your daughters.
And they've pulled the billboard and replaced it with one woman in a red bikini. Whew. THAT'S better.