Can sex sell anything??

As most car companies do, this is volvo using sex to help to sell its cars. This ad is a little different than most though. The quote that goes with it is, "We are just as excited as you." Maybe they think their cars are for men only? I just thought this use of "sex" to sell a car was a funny one.

This ad is one that is used in Germany to sell vacuums! If you look closely you can see the product in the left corner and a little cord connected from the vacuum that is binding this man's hands. I guess she is going to lure him to her using suction instead of seduction. This is one product that I would never have guessed could have been seen in a sexual way but someone found a way to put it in a light that is, although I am not sure how much the vacuum is really being put on display.

Super Bowl Sales..

I thought the Super Bowl ads were really deflated this year. I think they have been getting more and more boring and less creative for the past few years. Maybe it is because the games have been more hyped up than ever, but to me the innovation and thought that used to go into theses commercials just isn't there whether it has to do with sex to sell a product or not.

This year in particular I really didn't think there were many advertisments that were using sex to sell their products or that were trying to use the human form much at all. Unless you count a very small baby with a photoshoped mouth!! There was one Victoria's Secret commercial with an almost naked woman with a close to perfect (if not perfect, or what american women have been trained to think and believe is perfect) body. The ad was for the store in general and for Valentine's Day, apperently the clevege worked because I remember the commercial and so did my husband!

Most of the ads that did run were for beer and usually they do use good looking people. This year it seemed to be horses and a donkey or mule. There were also some energy water ads that used althetes that people want to emulate, but not in a bad way. Super Bowl commercials were unsuprisingly mild to me this year.