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So simultaneously it is both more for and more against sex. Using sex to sell things is bad but selling things for use during sex is good. If you tried to expla
by chillage 7y ago
So simultaneously it is both more for and more against sex. Using sex to sell things is bad but selling things for use during sex is good. If you tried to explain these moral values to visiting aliens their minds would explode.
- on_and_off 7y agoAre there ever been male babes in undergarments at CES ? Or was it just a way to appeal to straight males in the attendance while reminding everybody else that they are not supposed to exist ? Not to mention that in an industry that is already pretty sexist, re-enforcing the idea that women are just a pair a tits is just what is needed.
- flukus 7y agoOne is a psychologically manipulative way to get attention (like most advertising) in public that is also offensive to some and one is for use by consenting individuals in private. I don't see the issue explaining those moral values. I bet all the people presenting products are still attractive models and salesmen though, so to an extent they're still using sex to sell things just in a less titillating manner.
- chillage 7y agoHasn't the consenting adult also been manipulated by a CES advertising booth into buying the sex item..? And why is it bad to use sex to manipulate a customer into buying an item, but it is good to use free samples or pretty pictures to manipulate a customer into buying the same item? Deriving cultural moral values from first principles is hairy :/
- dragonwriter 7y ago> So simultaneously it is both more for and more against sex. It's for selling sex tech, and against using appeal to sex to sell not-sex tech. So, it'd both more for sex and more for honesty.