Tuesday, November 6, 2012

Playboy is just putting labia on the cover now


Copyranter just posted this cover from Playboy South Africa that turns a woman's lips sideways to mimic the "other" labia.

I was sure I had seen this visual trick before. Here's one from Y&R Mexico, via Advertolog, from 2004:


Not that it's any more imaginative, mind you. (It's also been done with a heavily-lidded eye.)

Cheap shock, and it's been done before. Yawn.

If you find any other examples of this concept, link them in the comments.

Update: Here's a poster for the Vagina Monologues, done by Saatchi & Saatchi New Zealand in 2002 (via Coloribus):



Update 2: Just found three more (spec?) from DGLY Shanghai, China, for Dior Addict High Shine Lipstick in 2009 (Via Ads of The World Forum):



It's green! With teeth!

How many times can you do the same freaking "vulva face" ad?

3 comments:

  1. there is more
    http://www.joelapompe.net/2007/10/25/eye-as-sexe-loeil-et-le-bon-33/

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    1. If we're including the eye ones, Joe...

      http://workthatmatters.blogspot.ca/2010/04/eye-eye-eye.html

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  2. I am 100 % certain there was an old Playboy issue already that did that. Maybe 15 years ago??? But I think it might have been an international edition. German maybe? But I'm very sure that it exists.

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