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[Caught in the Net] The Truth Told Well

I worked ever so briefly as an advertising copywriter, and my boss always said that good, effective advertising wasn’t about telling lies or tricking customers — it was just “the truth told well.” Kind of a nice thought, huh? But if you can tell the truth well with the addition of cocks and boobies, then I say that’s the truth told even better.

Consider this ad campaign created by French college students protesting the lack of student housing, which forces them to keep living at home, featuring a couple of healthy young people screwing in bed between a set of sleeping parents. The text, translated based on my two semesters of college French, reads “Some pretend that students don’t have housing problems . . .” Who knows, in France, this might even be an effective argument!

Here’s another ad with a social conscience, this time encouraging people to eat more fruits and veggies. Yes, that is a woman made of broccoli — and, what, squash? — shagging a dude made of carrots. I feel healthier just looking at it!

Not all advertisements are aimed at making the world a better place, of course — most just want to sell you a product. And it’s not exactly strange for a condom ad to be sexually explicit, but this poster for Manix Endurance condoms is just too damn weird not to link. The painting, titled “Marathon,” depicts a surreal world of disembodied cocks that participate in sporting events, a land of boob trees and stocking bushes and cock-hungry birds . . . it’s like something out of Bosch, only with more smiling bow-tie wearing bunnies.

And here we have some good old-fashioned masturbation humor, with a mom horrified to discover her son, who happens to be an anthropomorphic M&M, licking himself. Well, we’ve all been there, haven’t we?

I always thought Aston Martins were classy cars — I mean, James Bond drives one! — but they’re the first car company I’ve seen suggest that buying their vehicles can transform a woman from a mere mom into a MILF. And here I thought expensive cars were only for male midlife crises!

And, finally, a bit of old-school advertising from a simpler time, as seen at Eros Blog: Now! It Can Have Fur Around It! Well, yes. Yes, it can.

Until next time, shop wisely!

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