Doutful advertisments from yesteryear

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Here is a stack of old adverts, comic books, catalog pages, book covers, etc. which seem to indicate sexual shenanigans. Much of the innuendo here was clearly unintentional, but others will have you doubting their innocence.

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“It’s easy to see why so many women prefer Lucky Strike. Luckies are fully packed with long strands of choice tobaccos, round and firm to the very tip…” (1933)

Sigmund Freud warned us that sometimes a cigar is just a cigar. However, sometimes the sexual undertones are just too hilarious to ignore.

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This page from a German hosiery catalog is making me extremely uncomfortable. I think it best we move on…

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Yet, this one’s even more awkward than the last. It would seem awkwardness is at all sides in this article.

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Get your mind out of the gutter. There is absolutely nothing sexual whatsoever about this photo. I must have included it by mistake.

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Somebody’s getting touched tonight; that’s even not up for debate. The question is: who goes first?

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Let this serve as a reminder: if you go too long without cleaning the pipes, that sucker can go off like a nuclear bomb and someone’s liable to get hurt.

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I suspect the innuendo here is intentional. Of all the possible positions and placement of that sock, the artist decided to have a woman’s hands pull the fabric right at the bear’s groin.

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I’m trying to come up with a reason a Ban-Lon advert would feature a man placing a wiener in another man’s mouth while a girl watches. I’m coming up empty – any ideas?

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It’s easy to take a comic book panel out of context to imbue it with sexual connotations. We could play at this game all day…