Swimsuits in advertising: The definitive poll

Yeah, yeah, you’ve read it all before — “Japanese TV commercials have sexy girls in bikinis in them, hyuck hyuck.” However, before I finally drop this topic for good, I’d like to present a poll on the matter. Well, not a true poll — unfortunately, I’m a bit too stupid to figure out how to get the poll plugin to display properly — so let’s just call it a question for you to ponder.

---

Instructions: Carefully review the following two examples of babes-in-bikinis-based advertising currently airing on Japanese television and answer the multiple choice question below.

Advertisement #1
Commercial for Marui department stores’ summer swimwear sale

Click image above to view [AVI, 6.1MB]

Advertisement #2
Commercial for part-time job placement agency Mobaito.com

Click image above to view [WMV, 6.6MB]

True or False:
Advertising featuring women in skimpy bathing suits is more effective when the product being advertised is actually swimsuits.
	A)	True
	B)	False
	C)	I don’t care what they’re selling as long as I get to see Japanese women in bikinis!
	D)	As a proud member of Courageous Ladies United Nobly for Gender Equality, I am outraged by yet another example of the blatant objectification of women in the media
	E)	*fap fap fap fap fap*

---

Don’t forget to use a #2 pencil!

9 Comments

1. There was a question? I was too distracted by the bikinis~

   Comment by dave — 7/6/2006 @ 1:51 pm

2. I count that as a vote for ‘E’ then.

   Comment by jeff — 7/6/2006 @ 8:12 pm

3. I didn’t even scroll down to see all the answers, I think my scrollbar got stuck or something

   Comment by bart — 7/6/2006 @ 10:12 pm

4. C. Definitely C.

   Comment by Oscar — 7/7/2006 @ 10:00 am

5. B… B… booooobs

   Comment by Ben — 7/8/2006 @ 6:27 am

6. FAPping, eh?

   Comment by Hunter — 7/8/2006 @ 8:19 am

7. Oh, I get it now. You can still hold the pencil in the other hand.

   Comment by /mek — 7/10/2006 @ 11:24 am

8. OH GOD.

   E! EEEEEeEEEeeeeeee

   Comment by Rory — 7/11/2006 @ 11:53 am

9. Vote for A. Besides, I like the models in the Marui dept store better. Aren’t they just fscking hawt!?

   Comment by randomshinichi — 7/12/2006 @ 4:58 pm

RSS feed for comments on this post.

Sorry, the comment form is closed at this time.