Getting out of the kitchen and into the bedroom

Sex sells is a common phrase popular in the world of advertising and marketing. More specifically, it is the sexual material plastering the pages of magazines in various forms of advertisements such as cologne or alcohol, selling not only the product itself, but also the women who inhabit it. This book gives a brief introduction to the sexual history behind the gaze the lustful stare man places on a woman, its impact on advertising, and how America s universities are not properly informing their undergraduates of the overtly sexual content. Many commercials and print ads today have a misogynist theme, making the woman s role lesser than her male counterpart. What do these images demonstrate to America s youth? With each overly sexual picture plastered on billboards 45 feet in the air or hidden within magazines, the idealized image of women according to Jean Kilbourne (1999), an author and speaker on the image of women in advertising is becoming the norm, influencing how we, especially men, judge real women.

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Melissa McDonald graduated from St. Ambrose University with a BA in Graphic Design in 2010, and most recently from Iowa State University with a MFA in Graphic Design in 2014. She currently works as a graphic designer at a local newspaper near her hometown where she continues to go after her childhood goal of creating for the love of creating.