The image I selected for this exercise is the one on page 425 of "Rereeading America: Cultural Contexts for Critical Thinking and Writing". This is a Czech ad for jeans, of all things, and it's a bizarre one.
As an advertisement for blue jeans, it does make sense. The image shows three men, one of which is holding a woman up by the seat of her pants; literally. Another guy is feeling her pant leg while a third guy is grasping her by the arm.
The strongest argument is that assault of women is okay. Another way this could be interpreted is that stealing jeans off of women is okay, if they are good jeans (no one would market bad jeans)
This image also shows that sex in advertising is not limited to American culture. It is an international problem.
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