Not for public consumption: when are breasts obscene?
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Breasts are used to sell even products that have nothing to do with breasts but everything to do with sex and these are not judged obscene. Ironically, when By Choice Midwifery of Des Moines, IA, used the same marketing technique to encourage breastfeeding, most people found the ads offensive.
Publication Name: Utne Reader
Subject: General interest
ISSN: 8750-0256
Year: 1996
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Fashionable fascism
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Advertising in the 1990s shares common features with fascist art. This parallelism between contemporary advertising and fascist aesthetics is evident in godlike physiques and heroic postures in advertisements. These images are uncannily similar to propaganda posters during the Nazi era.
Publication Name: Utne Reader
Subject: General interest
ISSN: 8750-0256
Year: 1995
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