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December 03, 2005

I Have A Prediction

Based on current trends, I predict that sooner or later there will be product placement in pornography.

While I'm serious about this, it is also a fruitful comic premise. I invite anyone who cares to to explore it in the comments.

(Thanks to this Bob Harris post for inspiring this enjoyable train of thought.)

Posted at December 3, 2005 08:46 PM | TrackBack
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/gallery/image/0,8543,-10704194503,00.html

I don't think it's a coincidence that this is ELEPHANT dung. Clearly, the Republican Party's already taken out campaign advertisements in this famous piece of pornography.

Posted by: Sully at December 3, 2005 09:35 PM

sexual titlation on tv shows and advertizing is now mere product placement for porn. it has less and less of an effect of wanting to buy a product for example, and more and more of an effect of many men taking it as a reminder that they haven't looked at porn today.

Posted by: asdf at December 4, 2005 12:34 PM

This may potentially bring a new meaning to the oft-used phrase "Bush Sucks"; one which, I'll admit, I don't care to ponder excessively. But that's me.

Posted by: Jonathan Versen at December 4, 2005 04:27 PM

"Strategic product placement" will come to mean covering the nipples.

I see an opening for Oscar Meyer.

Jonathan: I have a picture of five women with the letters of "Bush '04" shaved into their pubic hair. I also have that picture of Alexandra Kerry from Cannes, that was so shameless I'm surprised she wasn't wearing a "Vote Kerry" ribbon slung between her breasts.

I have some porn with women draped on cars, but I think the cars are an alternative form of porn and not product placed.

Posted by: Noumenon at December 5, 2005 07:00 AM

Any porn movie involving someone in a maid outfit could easily have a character scrubbing with Pledge when (s)he gets buggered from behind. Or perhaps MinWax if it's a nice wooden console table.

I'm sure Chiquita would enjoy showing their labels on artfully placed produce in certain types of movies.

Posted by: Ted at December 5, 2005 11:51 AM