But I didn’t want to be smug.

As a secondary explanation, women don’t see themselves as some virginal, virtuous ideal dressed in pink and white lace and perched on a pedestal. They know that they desire sex just as much (and maybe more) than most men.

in regard to “LustyLioness” comments (that would have to be a made up name just for her comment, hey???), I once heard that 8 out of 10 women have been abused in some way before, so she may be onto something….

and I will let the comment about women wanting sex more than men go through to the keeper….

Hold on a second there — WHAT!?

These days my feed reader is usually piled high with posts, but never from Mike Industries.

If you’ve never congratulated yourself allow me to do so, because sometimes less is more.

Oh and I agree, posts about posts are a bit indulgent.

You can learn a lot about a person by what offends them. The piety and outrage seems a bit disingenuous to me, since the ad is ambiguous. Ambiguity breeds uncertainty and provokes thought and maybe this is not expected in advertising. I think it is a brilliant piece given the reaction.

I believe you may be right with one caveat. I think this pressure is imposed by less aggressive men and more aggressive women. IE., anyone who does not benefit from the ‘classic’ sexual dynamic. I don’t believe in major differences between the sexes per se, however many relationships contain the active / passive – aggressive / receptive relationship. It is difficult to maintain a relationship in which both parties are aggressive or receptive. Nature seems to demand a harmony.

Have you at all noticed if the Google ads have changed due to the recent content of the posts?

Tigerblade: Yep, of course. Haha… forgot to mention that. :)

Dan A: Yeah, it kind of comes in spurts for me, but 3-5 posts a month usually feels about right for me.

chris s: Totally agree.

Chad: Good question. I just checked and they all seem pretty normal except one of them — “Older Man Married Women… Free to Join. 1000′s of pictures of Handsome Single Older Men”. Hmmmmmm.

What’s interesting is that between your post and what I read on other blogs (and newsvine), I did not come away with the impression that “Most women seem either entirely unoffended or at least more forgiving of the imagery.”

Even if we took the time to go and put all the responses in a “reaction matrix” (any volunteers?) I doubt we’d get the real story. Sexual topics/conversations, especially on the phone or online, tend to bring out gender posers en masse.

And many don’t. I just ran through a list of married friends in my head and came up with about and equal combination of pass/pass or agg/agg compared to agg/pass.

I think what impressed upon me most in this last post was the amount of global statements. Which is ironic since really what we were all talking about was – “do you like this piece of art?” But we all felt compelled to support our own opinions (subjective) with some sort of objectivity.