Body improvement and Hostess fruit pies. What a pairing.

For those that believe I focus more on female sexuality...

First I must say that as a woman, that's both what I know more about and see as manipulated in a bad way.

Second, I will say that I have posted male myths before.

And third, I will draw your attention to Free Muscle Secrets and Instant Romantic Sideburns: Comic Book Advertising, Part One in which the author notes the marketing to a male dominated readership:

This kind of advertisement featured five distinct categories : body improvement, wacky products, money making schemes, Hostess fruit pies, and individuals selling other comics (often interspersed with the comic publishers selling their own branded accessories). As the decade came to a close, ad space was taken over by full-color ads for video games, candy and Saturday morning cartoons, but a page or two of black-and-white untruths lingered on.

Body improvement and Hostess fruit pies. What a pairing.

I'm looking forward to part two and will alert you as well.

What is Victoria's Secret?

Slip of a Girl is no fan of Victoria's Secret, so I shouldn't have been surprised to read the following in her recent SK article, Where Have All The Lingerie Loving Women Gone? (Part Two), but I was:

We were not free sexually empowered women but rather we were scantily clad babes who existed to fulfill male fantasies, no matter if we liked it, knew it, or not. That's Victoria's Real Secret.

Her piece is interesting though; can't argue with her points on the demise of lingerie.

For those who are fans or collectors of the lingerie company, here's an informative guide to collecting Victoria's Secret catalogs.

In that guide I was surprised to read that Roy Raymond, the founder of the Original Victoria's Secret, committed suicide by jumping from the Golden Gate Bridge in 1993, after several failed attempts to start a new business. So I guess if you have a signed Raymond catalog, you've got a good collectible there.

Also interesting to see that the catalog covers went from classy (if a bit 'under wraps'), to cuddly, to skimpy-sexy.