Sizzle sells! (Maybe.)

Mazel tov to one of our favorite CineKinksters, Lolita Wolf, for her prize-winning suggestion in Violet Blue's recent competition to determine the best sex-related ad campaign. Lolita's entry, last year's "Dominate Winter" interactive campaign for the Cooper Mini, which featured a cat-suit clad dominatrix encouraging the user to put the car through its paces.



Violet's criteria for the competition were pretty inclusive - by "sex-related I mean just downright sexy and hot, or incredibly clever, controversial, or just plain fun" - and a slew of tasty examples can be found in both the comments to that post and in her follow-up announcing the winners. (Both of which we've bookmarked and will be pillaging far into the future.)

And this week, Violet moves on to the question of whether sex can actually sell a product, bringing in AdRant's Scott Hall to ruminate with her on how much of it's a help and how much of it is just hype and sizzle.

Well, we're not sure how many Aspvik units it helped move. And we're way late for Violet's deadline. But for our money, our all-time favorite sex-related - and sex-positive! - ad continues to be Ikea's Neighbors.



Scratch that. We totally want an Aspvik, now!

Bring it!

There are definitely a few more significant issues we might ponder. The Child Online Protection Act (COPA) was struck down again, as an appeals court upheld last year's ruling by a federal judge that the act is "overbroad and unconstitutional." And an entirely different appeals court just tossed out the FCC fine that was once levied across Janet Jackson's infamously bare nipple.

But it's hot and it's sticky. And we'd just as soon sit here in the dark a/c, looking at sexy women in our underwear. Or their underwear, rather.

We're not sure if this is actually provocative or our worst freshman gym class nightmare finally realized...but enjoy!



(Snagged from Violet Blue, whose post on sex in advertising could have us procrastinatingresearching examples for days to come!)

And while we're at it...

As long as we're so busy avoiding resolutions, here's still another, an old favorite. And our best wishes for a splendid 2008, one full of happy surprises!

Unresolved...

If we actually believed in making resolutions, we'd likely resolve to make more posts that didn't involve just snagging a video from somebody else's blog, which seems to be our definite MO of late.




But there's plenty of time to be substantive in 2008. Meantime, a little New Year's hair of the dog and still another scantily clad woman - albeit this time cross-dressingly and somewhat gender-bendingly - presented in the interest of selling us something.

(Link to jbs-underwear ad snagged from Violet Blue. Like her, we disagree with the tag-line)

Now, that's what we call a friend

We're only into day #2 of the New York Leather Weekend + NYC Poly Pride mash-up - with a near week of events to go - and we're starting to get that tickling in the throat kind of thing that typically coincides with a change in the seasons.

Maybe in addition to our customary vitamin C + echinacea preventative mash-up, we'll power up with a bit of this?




(hat-tip Lolita)