Today's question is: How and why are there now "Obscene Vintage Ads" ads popping up on astronomy and science sites. What is Gazillions selling? You can see the two ads on the astronomy site. I am interested in that pulling object in space - every 18.18 minutes.
Gazillions is a site of tabloid celebrity news labelled as entertainment, lifestyle, and money. And there are lots of ads on it. I guess to get your attention, it has found that advertising obscene ads works. I was wondering what kind of site it was so it must work. It does have a lot of images of obscene ads when you do a query. I guess people are curious about this as there are lots of articles and pictures on banned old ads, obscene ones, sexist ones, hilariously offensive ones and so on.
Bored Panda has them, Comedy.com has them, Pinterest has lots. These include Cocaine Toothache Drops, Doctors smoke Camels, and Start Cola earlier (picture of baby). They move on to Train your wife variations such as Keep her where she belongs, along with wife-savers. Then it moves on to the sexual ones with titles like Orgy. They never stop scrolling, so there must be a lot of them.
Do a search for images on "banned obscene old ads" and they eventually evolve to most controversial sex-ed books and books that you would ban. You can find dirty boat names so offensive and rude... - with this search.
Curiosity is a universal human characteristic. And posed as the question: How bad is it? - well that's a hook that is hard to resist. So how bad/obscene can old ads be? There are lots of examples to choose from.
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