Sex Sells: Sexuality in Advertising.

Since the inventions of television and radio, audiences have been bombarded with advertisements every seven to ten minutes. These ads did not by any means create stereotypes, but by being created to relate to a wide target audience, they help to perpetuate them. Over centuries our concepts of aesthetic beauty have changed, but only until more recently were they so similar across a wide geographic spread at the same time. Is this coincidence, or has …

…and sexuality have traditionally associated with each other, but never have they been so closely intertwined. The line has been blurred between the two to the point where they've become almost indistinguishable from one another. Shouldn't beauty be about purity of heart, generosity, or even just plain kindness? Seems as though our fast paced world doesn't have time to distinguish the two separately in the ten or fifteen seconds it takes to plug a product.