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......Exploiting Female Sexuality for Commercial Advertising:
Women experienced discrimination and chauvinism in the United States for many generations before finally achieving basic equality and civil rights comparable to those always enjoyed by males in human societies beginning only in the 20th century. Until 1914, females could not vote in the U.S. and until modern times, they could not even own property or enter into contractual relationships except through their husbands. Sexual discrimination and sexual harassment were both routinely accepted in the workplace and all but ignored in general even where they involved many forms of abusive conduct that are today recognized as causes for civil law suits and even criminal charges
While sexual imagery in advertising cannot be said to have caused such issues, it is fairly obvious that rampant use of female sexuality for commercial advertising undermines the perception of women as equals, especially within the realm of professional business. To the extent that is true of sexual imagery in advertising in connection with commercial products related to human sexuality and attractiveness, it is even more true of the use of sexual imagery in connection with products that are not even remotely related such concepts. In many cases, the

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