One of the things that stuck with me from The Unbearable Lightness of Being is that it often doesn't. Peoples' sex lives are often their greatest source of insecurity. That's why we're not really inundated with sexy ads for everything, just scents and lingerie and such. Could have been a different book, though, it's been a while and I was reading and smoking a lot of weed that year.

[–] ConcreteHalloween@hexbear.net 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Some people apparently thought it'd sell mopeds

[–] rubber_chicken@hexbear.net 7 points 1 month ago

Right, ofc, it makes intuitive sense and once color image resolution was high enough to transmit horny images, they figured they'd try. Decades later, most hits for "2025 moped advertisements" have no people at all, the exceptions being:

with the first obvious awooga nine pages down.