SEX

"Advertising didn't mix sex up with our daily lives. The great Marketeer in the sky did that."

- Barry Brooks, English creative director, quoted in Eric Clark, The Want Makers: Inside the World of Advertising, 1988, New York: Penguin Books, p. 114.
"Sex! What is that but life, after all? We're all of us selling sex, because we're all selling life."

- Alvin Chereskin, quoted in Stephen Donadio, The New York Public Library: Book of Twentieth-Century American Quotations, 1992, New York: Stonesong Press, p. 70.
"Society drives people crazy with lust and calls it advertising."

- John Lahr, U.S. literary and drama critic, quoted in Robert Andrews, The Columbia Dictionary of Quotations, 1993, New York, NY: Columbia University Press, p. 19.
"In advertising, sex sells. But only if you're selling sex."

- Jef I. Richards (1995), advertising professor, The University of Texas at Austin.
"If we define pornography as any message from any communication medium that is intended to arouse sexual excitement, then it is clear that most advertisements are covertly pornographic."

- Philip Slater, quoted in Edward F. Murphy, The Crown Treasury of Relevant Quotations, 1978, New York: Crown Publishers, p. 14.