Editor’s note: There are SO MANY examples in this post, we’ve decided to put them after the jump. Enjoy!
And I guess this cow is sexy because she’s got her tongue out and her butt turned toward the viewer:
Organic food is sexualized too:
Connecting cars, masculinity, and meat:
Penny sent in this Dutch coffee ad, found here:
An ad I found for I Can’t Believe It’s Not Butter:
I found this ad for Skyy vodka the other day, which is similar to the Kenneth Cole ad above. It’s odd that an ad that uses the idea of being “natural” incorporates an image of a woman in a very, very unnatural foot position.
Blanca pointed me to Skinny Cow ice cream, which uses this sexualized image of a cow (who also has a measuring tape around her waist to emphasize that she’s skinny):
For reasons I cannot comprehend, there are Skinny Cow scrapbooking events.
Camilla P. sent us this commercial for Rustlers Burger (we think from England but we’re not sure). She says it was eventually pulled because of complaints (found here).
Mustard and ketchup are sexy (from Las Vegas Living):
If only women were noodles:
Are you hungry for some lovin’, er, lunchin’? Do you have an all-American appetite for chick(en)s? Or are you secretly ravenous for pig? We think we might have just the thing to satisfy your lust for breast, thigh, and rump:
(These ads were designed by a marketing firm in Thailand. Found via copyranter.)
Denia sent in this image of “Frankfurters” with sexy ladies on them. The text says “Undress me!” in Czech.
Finally, Teresa C. of Moment of Choice brought our attention to Lavazza coffee company’s 2009 calendar, shot by Annie Liebowitz (originally found in the Telegraph):
Spanish-language ads for Doritos (here, via Copyranter):
Tiffany L. brought me this ad for Three Olives vodka:
Get it? Your “O” face?
Here’s a Max Factor ad:
And p.j. sent in this Hardee’s ad, which I don’t think requires any commentary:
Amanda C. sent in this sign seen at Taste of Chicago:
Dmitiriy T.M. sent us this perplexing Hardee’s French Dip “commercial.” It’s basically three minutes of models pretending like dressing up as French maids for Hardees and pouting at the camera while holding a sandwich is a good gig:
NEW! Dmitriy also sent us this photo of Sweet Taters in New Orleans:
Some of the above images come from Carol J. Adams’s website. She’s the author of The Sexual Politics of Meat: A Feminist-Vegetarian Critical Theory.There’s also this ad. And these images.
NEW! (Oct. ‘09) Jacqueline R. sent in this commercial for Birds Eye salmon fish sticks:
ALSO NEW! (Oct. ‘09): Crystal J. pointed out that a Vegas restaurant is using these images from the 1968 No More Miss America protest in advertisements currently running in the UNLV campus newspaper, the Rebel Yell. Here’s a photo from the protest:
And here’s the ad:
Adams commented one one of these images in the 1990s; how unfortunate that it’s still in use.
NEW (Jan ‘09)! Edward S. drew our attention to this doozy:
Haven’t had enough? See this post too.
