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    Sex has a distinguished place in culture. It is a constant theme and continues to increase as time goes on. Not only that, but sex has made its mark as an advertising tactic. However, this is not a new proposition. Sex in advertising emerged many decades ago and continues to claim its place. This presents a critical question. Does sex as an advertising tool sell? Research show that sexual appeals in advertising leaves a negative impression. Sex does not seem to be the optimal selling tactic. On the

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    Sex In Advertising An important controversial issue that America faces today is the debate of sex in advertising. Edward A. McCabe and John Carroll are two authors that present opposing arguments about this issue. McCabe persuades the reader into thinking that sex in advertising is no big deal, while Carroll explains why this is a major problem in America. Sex ads are defined as any type of advertising that shows pictures of partial nudity with wording that relates to the body in a sexual way

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    Sex in Advertising: Beneficial or Controversial? Watch any amount of television throughout the day and at some point a sexually charged commercial advertisement will be aired. The commercial could show to barely dressed, large breasted, beautiful women fighting in a public location about whether or not the beer is "great tasting or less filling". Another commercial will hint that using their body spray will lead to attracting not only one women but an entire room full of women. Not to worry,

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    Sex in Advertising I chose sex in advertising for my research topic because I do not know about it well, even though a lot of sexual images and texts in advertisements. When I was a little kid, I often surprised by ads with sexy woman. Even now, I sometimes have my eyes glued to such kinds of advertising. I wonder that there are some physiological reasons why people pay attention to sex images. Also, learning about sex in advertising is useful for my career because I want to work for an advertising

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    Introduction: One often hears the phrase, “sex sells” when it comes to advertising. This is when advertising is the uses a sexually provocative or erotic imagery (or sounds, suggestions, and subliminal messages) that are specifically designed to arouse interest in a particular product, service or brand. Typically, sex refers to beautiful women and progressively handsome men are used to lure in a viewer, reader or listener, despite a weak a non-existent link to the brand being advertised. If a men

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    faces today is the debate of sex in advertising. Edward A. McCabe and John Carroll are two authors that present opposing arguments about this issue. McCabe persuades the reader into thinking that sex in advertising is no big deal, while Carroll explains why this is a major problem in America. Sex ads are defined as any type of advertising that shows pictures of partial nudity with wording that relates to the body in a sexual way, usually portraying women. Sex in advertising has been around for a long

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    Sex has a distinguished place in culture, it is a constant theme and continues to increase as time goes on. Not only that, but sex has made its mark as an advertising tactic. However, this is not a new proposition. Sex in advertising emerged many decades ago and continues to claim its place. This presents a critical question. Does sex as an advertising tool sell? Research shows that sexual appeals in advertising leaves a negative impression. Sex does not seem to be the optimal selling tactic. On

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    Throughout history sex and advertising has been played an important role for the producers. Producers use sex in their advertising so they can get more consumers. In their advertisement they target both men and women by different kinds of advertising. There are many examples of how Sex and advertising has been related to each other. Producers make a lot of money by selling their products with the help of sex in their advertisement. So the use of Sex in advertising is the key to sell a particular

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    on sex to sell products should be banned from magazines and television. To say for the least, ads around the manufacturing world has determined that sex sells; advertising sex is the use of sexually provocative imagery that are designed to arouse interest in a particular product, service or brand. Typically, sex refers to attractive men and women which is used to pull in viewers, readers, listeners despite the non-existent link to the brand being advertised. This only assures the idea of sex sells

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    commercials that you see everyday? They simply use sex. Sex in advertising can be defined as the use of any type of sexual imagery to draw the interest of the consumer to buying a particular product or service. The use of sex in advertising as mentioned earlier is said to have boasted a lot company’s revenues, but it also has its negative side which has caused a lot of problems in societies around the world. The idea of using sex in advertising is a very smart way that advertisers use to gain attention

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