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"A few weeks ago, I blogged about the racy new Calvin Klein fragrance ads starring a very naked Eva Mendes, and it got me thinking about the old adage that sex sells--in fact, it sells everything from handbags to cars to, yes, breakfast cereals. But just how far is too far? Apparently Britain&amp;#x27;s Daily Mail thinks we&amp;#x27;ve already hit our saturation point with exposed flesh,reporting on the innumerable products that currently employ nudity in their ad campaigns (among them Pomegreat fruit drink and a British carpet manufacturer) and questioning whether the ubiquity of the bare female form is ushering in a new era of sexism. Has the fashion industry simply run out of ideas and made breast and buttocks the go-to attention getter? Does a bare-chested Keira Knightley have anything at all to do with smelling like a lily-of-the-valley? Does a nude Kate Moss make you want to own an alligator handbag from Longchamp? Forget for a moment about the possible sexist implications. Leave behind the idea that 99% of these women are unrealistic, unattainable, completely airbrushed iterations of the female form, and that their presence is undoubtedly sending an anti-acceptance message to normal girls everywhere. Let&amp;#x27;s just address the obvious: I don&amp;#x27;t know that I&amp;#x27;d buy clothes from a naked woman, for the same reason I wouldn&amp;#x27;t let a blind man drive me home--that&amp;#x27;d just be foolish, no? I appreciate Helmut Newton&amp;#x27;s work, I adore Botticelli, and I&amp;#x27;m certainly not a prude. But I just don&amp;#x27;t see this trend as being favorable for the fashion industry. What do you guys think? Would you buy clothes from a naked woman? And do you think, like The Daily Mail&amp;#x27;s Liz Jones, that we&amp;#x27;re taking a giant step backwards in womanhood by supporting these ads? Is there too much nudity in fashion advertising today? ( surveys)"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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