The images have changed but the sentiment remains


This image can be found in a Huffington Post gallery titled "Outrageous Vintage Ads That Show How Far We've Come".

Some of the messaging behind this cigarette ad and others from the era seem ridiculous in hindsight: Doctors and athletes endorsing smoking, wives affectionately serving their husbands on their hands and knees, and a black waiter serving an old white man "double-rich whiskey".

Thankfully, there's next to no validity left in the messaging behind most of the ads in the gallery but the motto, "Blow in her face and she'll follow you anywhere" remains to some degree at the front of many men's minds.

Mary Elizabeth Williams offered a thoughtful analysis at Salon.com on how contemporary pornography has changed sex between young adults, I assume, with blunt force.

She concludes:

Aping an adult star doesn't make a person a lover any more than playing Rock Band makes him a musician. Good sex makes room for honest passion and uninhibited enthusiasm, and doesn't feel like an audition for AVN rookie of the year. It's messy and silly and profound. And unscripted.
More study needs to be done on how pornography has affected a generation of young men and women – a disconnect facilitated by computers serving as porn jukeboxes. But the sentiment of Tipalet ad for smokes, I believe, remains prevalent.

 
 
 

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