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| Yes | 58% | 549 votes | Total: 945 votes | |
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by Joseph Malek
It is quite clear to me that naked or almost naked beautiful women or men have and will continue to increase the sales of certain products. Then again, the perception of what a ...read more
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It is truly disgusting to me that sex is used to sell anything and everything. Immodesty in advertising is a true problem. However, it is not a new problem. Sex appeal has ...read more
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by Alyssa Bean
Sex and advertising. The two seem to be synonymous with each other these days, don't they? And yet, while most people claim they hardly pay attention to these ads (while wearing...read more
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by sjovell
The Naked Truth A young girl is being harassed by a guy on a motorcycle. A shipwrecked man is trying to trade bananas for sex. Another young girl is in the woods surrounded ...read more
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by EMSalem
Sex sells because advertisers use it to their advantage. I say it is wrong for women and men to allow themselves to be flaunted for money, but until they just learn to say no to...read more
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by Kyle Yaffe
Yes, advertisements use sex to sell their products, and it does degrade women in the process. Society has become desensitized to the old ways of advertisement with women, which ...read more
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Does real art exist anymore? Is the imagination of man completely predisposed to his primal instincts? I personally find it quite offensive when corporate America attempts t...read more
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by Lily Jasper
Advertisements featuring sex send a hostile message to women and men alike. The message sent to men is saying that women are supposed to look and behave in certain ways and any...read more
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Just because "sex sells" does not mean we should use it indiscriminately to do so. I am so tired of the sexual images on my TV in the name of advertisements (and more). Having ...read more
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by Peggy Molloy
Using sex to sell is old-hat. When we live in a society comprised of 52% women, I can only wonder who is selling what to whom. Women are very often the household decision-maker...read more
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by Jamie Mandel
Sex has become an integral part of advertising. To the point where it makes you want to say, "enough already!" We are all aware sex is very capable of pushing products, but it s...read more
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by Gina Matharu
Yes, nowadays it is the norm for advertisements to use sex and most can be degrading depending on your culture, background, religion, beliefs and values, and so on. In the dive...read more
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Advertisements do use sex to sell their products, but whether or not women are being degraded is very subjective to each individuals personal perspective, and one should not gen...read more
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People are using sex to sell products, why? Simple answer cause it works! People in this country love to see sexy ads and half naked men/women. The fact that they are degrading ...read more
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For far too long, women have been transformed into a sexual object in order to satisfy the wanton desires of the heterosexual males. In the society that we are living in today,...read more
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by Saurabh Pal
First of all let us agree that respect for women in society today has gone down considerably. In the earlier days or even 50-60 years ago, people treat women with a lot of resp...read more
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A freshly poured drought of watery beer salivates and sweats onto the bar as a half naked nymph jangles her spandexed-and-sequined rear end into the camera lens. A women whose l...read more
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Advertisements do use sex to sell their products, but there seems to be confusion as to why that degrades women. To put it simply, it is because it reduces a human being to the...read more
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We all know that sex sells and that attractive women have been seen draped, scantily clad over vehicles for sale for as long as we can remember when it comes to advertising. But...read more
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by Ginger Kazay
Some advertisers seem to feel that they need to use sex to sell their products. In the process, some of them degrade both the men and the women they use in these commercials. ...read more
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by Stan Dyer
Yes, advertisements use sex to sell their products, but they do not degrade women. Instead, they degrade the people who respond to them, both men and women. We grow up in ...read more
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by Zach Bigalke
The problem with the argument that advertisements using sex to sell products degrades women is that these women willingly participate in the creation of these ads for large sums...read more
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Does using sex to sell really degrade women? I would have to say, NO. Using sex to sell products is probably the most effective advertising method out there right now. All of th...read more
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Growing up in Las Vegas, Nevada, has caused me to be exposed to every kind of advertisement involving the use of sex that has ever been conceived by man or woman. Hotel, restau...read more
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Sex Sells: There is no other way to describe it. You may notice that with the majority of modern day advertising that there is always a scantily-clad and makeup-drenched beautif...read more
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by Paul Stanway
Using sex to sell products is a well-worn technique for improving a given product's sales. To quote the oft-cited advertising maxim: "sex sells!". It is clear from the average...read more
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Ads that portray women of various physical appearance, social settings and the accompanying verbiage do not degrade women in any way, shape or form. Human nature draws one to ph...read more
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by Ted Sherman
To anyone who believes it: get a life! Advertisers use sex to sell their products and services for one reason. It is to get you to spend your money. There's usually no intent t...read more
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by Lyndsey
Advertisements do use sex to sell products but it doesn't degrade women in the process. How can it? Women who appear in adverts have given their full consent to appear. My u...read more
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Advertisers absolutely use sex to sell, that is not the issue that gets to me; For women are the fair sex and as such appeal to the man in the most deeply carnal way. This is n...read more
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by Judy Khoo
Being a woman, I could take the easy route and vote to say that advertisements do use sex to sell their products, thus degrading women in the process. However, to agree with ...read more
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by S Khalid
Culture? For over decades now the meaning of the term is so wooly. The articulating voices from everywhere seems to be changing the global positioning of culture and tradition. ...read more
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by Gary Maclean
I saw an advertisement the other day that made me take a second look. I didn't believe my ears but indeed, what I thought I heard I actually did hear. Someone was holding a preg...read more
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If it is true that advertisements employing female sexuality to sell products degrade women in the process, then the opposite is also true that advertisements employing male sex...read more
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by Kevin Pack
Look at the topic of this debate. Before developing an opinion, assess two key words: "use" and "degrading". Who, if anyone at all, is actually being used, and who is actually b...read more
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by Reid
Advertisements use sex to sell products rampantly. If there isn't a sexual tie that is used; there is most defiantly a thin young conservatively defined woman in the spotlight...read more
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Sex has been a woman's choice of weapon since the beginning of time. The female species utilizes sex appeal whenever it opportunes them the upper hand. It is an asset that God ...read more
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by John Stuart
Advertisers indeed use sex to sell their products, degrading men and women in the process. I remember growing up when women were used to sell everything from underwear to cars ...read more
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Advertisements use sex to sell their products, degrading women in the process - discuss. The short answer is yes, they do and no, it doesn't. As many people will have testifi...read more
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by Schanie Ken
Using women to advertise & sell products is an affirmation of magic in female form. In addition to physical form, the personality factor also counts. Till about 1950, major buyi...read more
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