Selling Sex

We all know that advertisers use sex as their default tool (ahem) for selling stuff when they don't have any smarter ideas, but when 100+ recent "sexy" ads are strung together by Creative Bits it's actually shocking to be reminded how sexist and pointless so many of them really are...



The individual ads have also been compiled on their blog HERE. Definitely take a moment to scroll through, it's fairly overwhelming.

Linkage: Art Crimes and Clothing Punishment

The Onion Network is looking for socially conscious design and marketing partners.

Does the gay flag need a makeover?

Getting the word out with mud stencils (image shown).

What to do with reusable bags, when they're used up. Thanks Mim!

A hand-cranked eco-vibrator for the ultimate environmentalist. Thanks Leah!

Would you wear the same dress every day for a year if it was for a good cause? via

Making a barrel monster will get you arrested in North Carolina (image shown) Thanks Carlos!

Who doesn't like free books?

Abstinence Programs Have Zero Effect

A recent study from the non-partisan Mathematica Policy Research, Inc. concludes that "abstinence only" sex-education classes, which have been a darling of the current administration, have absolutely NO effect on young people. The multi-year study found:

...that youth in the four evaluated programs were no more likely than youth not in the programs to have abstained from sex in the four to six years after they began participating in the study. Youth in both groups who reported having had sex also had similar numbers of sexual partners and had initiated sex at the same average age.

Read more from the report here.