does sex sell effectively
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i don't understand the overload of skin and sex thing. It's as human as it gets. The idea that we get arrested for being naked as similarly absurd.
ESPECIALLY if you have a respect for the beauty in imperfection.
As designers we all know that the pics in magazines are cloned and airbrushed to death, the lighting and makeup on video sets covers every last blemish.
These things are done so that the people stand out. They're more freaks of nature than anything. As the ratio of 'made-up' people to 'every-day' people in the media in no way represents the people sucked in by such things.
It's not like the drunk guy chasing after the gorgeous woman who's buying him a drink in [insert generic beer commercial here] is an average guy either. He's wearing just as much makeup, and to risk my interest in the beauty of men to be mistakn for gay tendencies, he looks pretty damned good as well.
At the same time, few people fantasize about normal. regardless of if it's another person, a house, vacation spot, a nice toaster.. fantasy and yearning are based on the unattainable, which is why it's called a fantasy and hardly a goal.
My final point is.. If sex didn't sell, then it wouldn't exist in the media. The numbers show that people want to see 'sex.' When surveyed people are subjected to commercials involving sex vs. not, they are picking sex.
So how is it, that there's too much 'sex' in the media?