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Isn't He Lovely: The Ad That Turned Men Into Sex Objects

Social Commentary post by CristenConger on October 12, 2011 - 10:26am; tagged body image, body shaming, calvin klein, isnt he lovely, male beauty, muscularity, underwear.

1982 Calvin Klein ad with Tom Hintnaus wearing nothing but a pair of white briefs with his eyes closed against a white and blue backgroundAdvertisers have long used handsome men to hawk their wares. In the 20th century, marketers who realized that women did a majority of the household shopping created dashing spokesmen, such as the Arrow Shirt Man, to appeal more to the ladies than the menfolk. And certainly advertising has played an integral role in the male beauty culture that has skyrocketed in the past 20 years, too. In fact, some scholars and experts trace men's heightened attention to self and—more importantly—how they appear to others back to a single, revolutionary image from 1982. 

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Douchebag Decree: Jours Après Lunes, Lingerie for Girls

Social Commentary post by Kelsey Wallace on August 18, 2011 - 1:01pm; tagged Douchebag Decree, girls, Jours Apres Lunes, objectification, underwear.

"ye olde douchebag decree" in blue letters with a light blue hand-drawn douchebag in the background, and "BITCH HEREBY DECLARES THE FOLLOWING PERSON A TOTAL DOUCHEBAG" in small letters in red underneath.

I lived in France for a short time in my carefree younger days, and I have fond memories of their refreshing attitudes about sex (and also soft cheeses): Ne t'inquietes pas! C'est naturel! and so on. However, call it the American prude in me, but I am thoroughly creeped out by this new line of lingerie for girls ages three months and up by the French company Jours Après Lunes. Making out on a park bench or not shaving your armpits or what have you is one thing, but putting a bra on a four-year old is something else entirely.

young white girl in underwear, shot from behind
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I Am, in Fact, Saying No to WWYMD?'s Abstinence-Promoting Underwear

Sex and Sexuality post by Deb Jannerson on April 19, 2011 - 11:04am; tagged abstinence, mother-daughter relationships, Ms., teenage girlhood, underwear, wtf?.

What Would Your Mother Do? Conversation Underwear sells panties and t-shirts in stereotypically girly colors such as white, "pale mint" and "lavender pink," adorned with the phrases "Not tonight," "Zip it!" and "Dream on!"

WWYMD Not tonight

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In (outsized) praise of giant undies

Love / Shove post by Andi Zeisler on January 7, 2008 - 9:31pm; tagged fun with stereotypes, underwear.

In response to a news story about a family putting out an oven fire with the mother's "big pants"—that's Brit-speak for granny panties—comes this column from the Times Online's Caitlin Moran on the scourge of "pantorexia." To be honest, I'm not really sure what's going on in this overlong column — Moran basically starts off encouraging women to stop strangling their asses with "sexy pants" and creating the dreaded quad-buttock effect with ill-fitting unmentionables, but then she goes on to bemoan the state of big pants as well. (Apparently the deprtment stores in Old Blighty are overrun with underpants in the hue of an "uncooked pork chop.")

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