Sex In Advertising

August, 1992

Sex in AdvertisingEven before I knew there was such a thing as an advertising business, I learned that sex was often an important attention-getting element.As a teenager in Chicago, I worked in a Standard Oil service station. I remember being intoxicated by the smell of gasoline-the pink, cold and sweeter ethyl more than the pale, dry regular-transfixed, too, by the sound and feel of the pneumatic grease gun with its whooshes and pops as I snapped it from one silvery nipple to another beneath so...