• calliope@retrolemmy.com
          142·
          4 days ago

          You can’t unsee it.

          People in 1973 saw a woman who was walking out of the water because that kind of porn wasn’t as readily available. People literally had to travel to a theater to see it most of the time.

          It hadn’t occurred to me at all in 2026, either but the brain rot is strong in you.

          The ad is a bizarre ad in other ways, because putting a diamond brooch on a swimsuit is stupid.

          • schipelblorp@sh.itjust.works
            55·
            4 days ago

            That is a weird expression to be making in an advertisement, which usually wants to emphasize conventional attractiveness. A team of people decided that this is the shot they wanted to go with, so there has to be a reason.

            Also, my earliest point of contact with pornography was the late 70’s, when me, my mom, and my sister would be outside a store visiting the city waiting for my dad to come out with something in a brown paper bag… so I don’t think it’s inconceivable that the art team would have had some exposure given the time frame and the fact that who knows where the DeBeers advertising team was even located.

            • calliope@retrolemmy.com
              64·
              4 days ago

              Keep dreaming! I kinda respect the dedication to brainrot delusion but I don’t have a lot of time for it.

              There’s literally no way a team of people in 1973 thought “cumshot!” Facials weren’t even common until much later, let alone this “dodging” you refer to like it’s been common forever.

              Like, literally your example is “the late seventies.” This was in… the early seventies. Before videocassettes and the proliferation of accessible porn.

              This is all on you, and I find your arguing tiresome.

              • schipelblorp@sh.itjust.works
                2·
                4 days ago

                Alternate theories welcome.

                Ever read “Subliminal Suggestion”? Probably slightly paranoiac, but it does go into games advertisers like to play, and implying sex and death is primary among them.

                • tgcoldrockn@lemmy.world
                  21·
                  4 days ago

                  The probability that the ad men or women, involved in the decision making for this image, considered the sexuality of the image is 99%. Was it the focus? No. It is a shot of a woman in the waves looking at how impressive her beach broach is .

  • baggachipz@sh.itjust.works
    1·
    4 days ago

    What in the hell is this we trying to accomplish? Like, “diamonds aren’t just for fingers anymore”? Ok, but who the hell is gonna go swimming with a thing like that.