Dismemberment of Women in Ads in Today's Society
     
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Imagine a woman from head to waist who stared into a camera with taunting eyes and a seductive glaze. Her hair is jet black and layered around her face. Her lips are pouty and seem to be reddened by a long lustful kiss. Her chest is almost bare except for a few drops of sweat that have penetrated from within her cleavage. This is the way advertisers sell products from cleaning supplies to feminine sprays.
Dismemberment Dreams
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Dismemberment in advertising, the practice of showing the separate parts of a body, has become, commonplace. Women are most often the subjects of this advertising technique, but every so often men are also depicted in this way. In our study, we assembled ten advertisements and asked a series of questions to two different people to determine what each person saw in each individual ad. Each ad illustrated some form of dismemberment. The most interesting finding in this study was that people do not consciously notice such details, and that each ad used a body part as an object. With this information, we hope to show others the implications of dismembering in advertisements.




 
   
 

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