http://slog.thestranger.com/slog/archives/2012/12/11/sci-fi-author-nearly-injures-himself-trying-to-pose-like-a-woman-on-a-sci-fi-novel-cover Comments On: Sci-Fi Author Nearly Injures Himself Trying to Pose Like a Woman on a Sci-Fi Novel Cover by Paul Constant en-us Copyright 2013 The Stranger. All rights reserved. This RSS file is offered to individuals, The Stranger readers, and non-commercial organizations only. Any commercial websites wishing to use this RSS file, please contact The Stranger. webmaster@thestranger.com (The Stranger Webmaster) Sun, 19 May 2013 00:00:01 -0700 Sun, 19 May 2013 06:15:00 -0700 Foundation http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss
It would be entirely possible for comic artists to continue to make the female figure beautiful without resorting to giant tits, high heels, and weird contortionist poses.


Posted by dwightmoodyforgetsthings]]> Wed, 12 Dec 2012 10:39:12 -0800 The Stranger
I read it. I'm not sure how it relates to anything I wrote. Everyone who's ever seen a women's apparel catalog knows what the models are going to look like. Sure, they could put fat women on it, or really ugly women, or bald women, or women with hairy armpits. If they did that, you know what would happen? Some people would say, "Great job! Finally! Thank you!" There might even be a brief uptick in sales. But I'd bet sales would drop fast.

People like to look at attractive people. That shouldn't be surprising to anyone.

@11,
If you put Sex and Advertising (or marketing) into google scholar, you'll get more references than you could imagine.

Sex (and attractive people) get attention. Does it translate into an immediate sale? Maybe not, but attention is attention.
Posted by Urgutha Forka]]> Wed, 12 Dec 2012 10:36:03 -0800 The Stranger Attractive people have "stopping power." A sexy model will get a buyer's attention more than a non sexy model.

Yeah, it doesn't always translate to a sale, but research does show that people tend to like things more just by viewing them: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mere_exposu…

These are comic books. Teenage boys read them. Teenage boys like looking at attractive women.
Posted by Urgutha Forka]]> Wed, 12 Dec 2012 10:28:00 -0800 The Stranger Posted by Matt Hickey]]> Wed, 12 Dec 2012 09:04:13 -0800 The Stranger Posted by sirkowski]]> Tue, 11 Dec 2012 22:14:33 -0800 The Stranger
http://www.jimchines.com/2012/04/posing-…


Posted by LMcGuff]]> Tue, 11 Dec 2012 19:59:27 -0800 The Stranger
Am I allowed to go apeshit about how you're calling the people responsible for those referenced Hawkeye Initiative images "cartoonists?" Only a handful out of all the submissions are not painful to look at, or look like they took more than 10 minutes to create.
Posted by Knat]]> Tue, 11 Dec 2012 19:32:47 -0800 The Stranger Posted by jt]]> Tue, 11 Dec 2012 19:03:27 -0800 The Stranger http://www.hanneblank.com/blog/2011/06/2…
Posted by anarchy burger]]> Tue, 11 Dec 2012 18:54:05 -0800 The Stranger Posted by alguna_rubia]]> Tue, 11 Dec 2012 18:35:45 -0800 The Stranger Posted by mubhappy]]> Tue, 11 Dec 2012 17:56:16 -0800 The Stranger
However,

Sex sells. Always has, always will. If the artists start drawing realistic looking women, sales will plummet.

Clothing catalogs that experiment with using 'human' (i.e., bigger than size zero and no airbrushing) looking models? Their sales fall off a cliff.

Humans are not very evolved. Accept it. Sex sells.
Posted by Urgutha Forka]]> Tue, 11 Dec 2012 16:53:15 -0800 The Stranger If I were a woman who'd been to a ball,
Been hailed as a princess to one and to all;
Would I start weeping like a bathtub overflowing?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Doz5w2W-j…


Posted by Supreme Ruler Of The Universe]]> Tue, 11 Dec 2012 16:50:08 -0800 The Stranger Posted by keshmeshi]]> Tue, 11 Dec 2012 16:37:00 -0800 The Stranger Posted by Reverse Polarity]]> Tue, 11 Dec 2012 16:06:43 -0800 The Stranger Posted by TheMisanthrope]]> Tue, 11 Dec 2012 15:53:50 -0800 The Stranger Posted by NateMan]]> Tue, 11 Dec 2012 15:43:21 -0800 The Stranger Posted by GermanSausage]]> Tue, 11 Dec 2012 15:43:16 -0800 The Stranger