In response to Gwen’s post on butts, I offer you crotches.  We’re being super highbrow today.

The following not-safe-for-work ads place a product (or copy) at a woman’s crotch.  Are they promising sexual access?  Just trying to draw attention?  Using shock tactics?  I don’t know.

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And, then, there’s always Tom Ford’s rather famous iterations of the crotch shot (I know, we’ve had these on the blog before, but…):

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NEW! Dmitriy T. M. sent in this ad for London Fog:

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See also our posts on subliminal-ish sex in advertising, not-at-all-subliminal sex in advertising, and ejaculation imagery.

(Images found here, here, here, here, here, and here.)

Lisa Wade, PhD is an Associate Professor at Tulane University. She is the author of American Hookup, a book about college sexual culture; a textbook about gender; and a forthcoming introductory text: Terrible Magnificent Sociology. You can follow her on Twitter and Instagram.