Does Sex Sell?

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Does Sex Sell?

THe AGE OLD QUESTION. Right up there with what came first, the chicken or the egg? Open for debate. I was thinking about this when I was cruising around those video sites with all the funny and sexy videos on it, pics and what not. They had the Paris Hilton Burger video and the Napster Girl video (this one is ok napstergirl.tv b/c it has cream and I hate Paris) on it. Now when I see these do I want a burger, do I go a sign up for Napster, do I only drink Coors lite now? How come for female stuff they don't have a bunch of Muscle bound dudes with no shirts parading around? Please to comment.....what ad, commercial do you like? What ad commercial do you hate, and has any of it made you purchase the product. It doesn't count if you were already using it.

I love sex.

Come to think of it, not many of the products I use are marketed through sex.

I despise Paris Hilton, DESPISE! I'm using 'despise' not lightly here. HATE that ratty looking b*tch!

Otherwise, I'm not really sure what you're asking.

Yes, sex sells.

Sex sells and I have been known to buy 😉 😂 don't we all "buy", when we buy a girl a gift etc? 🙂

It's got to the point where it doesn't even have to come to a lady dressing overly provocative to sell records.

I'm sure there are guys who bought Jessica Simpson records because she has large breasts and I KNOW there are females who buy Justin Timberlake records because they find him attractive.

-AC

Originally posted by Alpha Centauri

I'm sure there are guys who bought Jessica Simpson records because she has large breasts and I KNOW there are females who buy Justin Timberlake records because they find him attractive.

-AC

I know a guy who buys both, but not for the reasons you mentioned. At least as far as Jessica Simpson is concerned

I buy neither because they have little to do with their own music.

Originally posted by BackFire
Yes, sex sells.

Originally posted by Capt_Fantastic
I know a guy who buys both, but not for the reasons you mentioned. At least as far as Jessica Simpson is concerned

I buy neither because they have little to do with their own music.

I always found that the most disgusting thing. If you are out there doing it all yourself and it's still shit, then the saving grace (for lack of a better term) may be that you ARE doing it yourself. If you are so shit that you can't even write shit music for yourself and have to have others supply it, that's the bottom of the bucket.

Coincidentally, top of the charts also. Most of the time.

-AC

AC Do you know if the Arctic Monkeys write their own stuff?

considering prostitution is the "worlds oldest profession"....what do you think?

Originally posted by Alpha Centauri
I always found that the most disgusting thing. If you are out there doing it all yourself and it's still shit, then the saving grace (for lack of a better term) may be that you ARE doing it yourself. If you are so shit that you can't even write shit music for yourself and have to have others supply it, that's the bottom of the bucket.

Coincidentally, top of the charts also. Most of the time.

-AC

Absolutely. I don't own a single album where the artist wasn't involved in the writting process.

Originally posted by Sir Whirlysplat
AC Do you know if the Arctic Monkeys write their own stuff?

I would assume so. I wouldn't say this is necessarily a good thing if they do, though.

They are quite possibly one of THE worst bands to emerge from anywhere in recent memory, in my opinion.

-AC

Originally posted by PVS
considering prostitution is the "worlds oldest profession"....what do you think?

😂 kind of my point earlier, it's a shame we don't see eye to eye PVS as we often post similair ideas in threads, must be an over 30 thing.

I guess everybody loves sex....... 😱

Originally posted by Alpha Centauri
It's got to the point where it doesn't even have to come to a lady dressing overly provocative to sell records.

I'm sure there are guys who bought Jessica Simpson records because she has large breasts and I KNOW there are females who buy Justin Timberlake records because they find him attractive.

-AC

these people must be sterilized for the good of humanity 🥷

Damn humanity is messed up, when even something like sex comes to be tainted by gross commercialisation. Whatever that means.

I for one though am actually less likely to by something because it has some nubile young thing frolicking about in skimpy clothing, just because such commercials are achingly stupid, unless of course they are selling skimpy clothing, in which case they are being accurate, even though I don't buy such clothing (normally anyway). Adverts that are nothing but eye-candy and provide 0% information about the product while trying to subliminally imply that soft drink X has the potential to make this the best summer ever, due to lots of near naked young lasses suddenly appearing the moment it's opened, irritate me immensely, and simply make me sniff in total disdain.

It often appears the purpose of advertisers are to appeal to the lowest common denominator, to sell their product to as many people as possible, but whats wrong with actually trying to sell THE PRODUCT, not a heap of stupid fairy floss smoke and mirrors crap that hides they fact they couldn't sell their products on it's virtues alone. Why not interject some intelligence, or wit or SOMETHING into them?

As to Paris Hilton, her Burger commercial made me sick, primarily as Paris Hilton is one of the foulest cretins to ever walk the earth. She is easily the biggest, ugliest, most diseased pimple to emerge on the large quivering buttocks of humanity for a long time, and it's just goes to show that there is no god, as if there was he would never have allowed her to be even slightly famous while a few billion infinitely more deserving people are missing out. If I had any power what so ever, I would, for fun, and the greater good, wipe Paris Hilton from all time and space, safe in the knowledge she wouldn't be missed, and the world in turn wouldn't be missing anything.

what kind of question is that...of course it does. we all know that. Its an unfortunate truth of life

yup..of course sex sells.....which is complete bullsh!t to me-.- but hey, so many people respond to it all. There are so many talented artists out there who are being overlooked because they may not have the right 'look'...yet, there are so many artists these days who do not have one talented bone in their body, yet they sell so many damn records purely cuz they're good lookingO.O...there is so much bullsh!t happening in the world today-.-

Of course it does. I don't really see the problem with it either. And not only sex sells, for example cute babies sell too (not only they themself but also the products they represent 🤨 ). Those are jsut basic human reactions. No big deal.

Well, it's not the world's oldest profession, that's another one of those myths.

But yes, of course it does; it's an innate need, and advertising will take advantage of anything that gets you to buy.