22 November 2008
Girls up for a beer and a baton?
5 March 2007
Te Waha Nui Online
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There’s been a lot of talk in the media lately about sexy tools and what attracts women – at least in the ads and in the courts.
It appears sex is a useful advertising tool only when selling to men, discovered when researchers analysed the effects of sexual drama content on men and women viewing ads.
Male viewers were able to recall more adverts with sexual content than women viewers.
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A possible reason – women and men find different content sexually attractive. I know – an awesome notion.
For instance, a Tui beer ad set in a brewery that only employs young women dressed like porn stars. The Tui men are “blokes next door” and are very (very) unattractive to people who have sex with men. But perhaps they look like the men buying Tuis?
Women probably choose such ad moments for a quick toilet break is my guess.
If only the media were more interested in what women find sexually interesting. But obviously they aren’t.
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In advertising you will find plenty of examples of our interest in good laundering and clean floors, but not of good sex and what makes a man attractive.
One chocolate biscuit ad does sexually appeal to women, but even then the man is just a chocolate-induced illusion. Direct appeal to our sex seems to still be a no-no - note this advertising researchers.
And talking about sexual tools and what women find attractive - this is something police officers and jury members should pay attention to. Absolutely no-one I know – and I asked everyone I could think of who has sex with men – not one person found a police baton sexy. No-one - not even the ones who had genuinely consensual sex with police officers - invited batons to be inserted in orifices, not even in their fantasies.
Police batons are not your average sex aid. Rarely do women gag for it. They do not make a woman have a sexual response when she sees one swinging at the hip of a man in uniform.
And many women (as well as gay men) do find men in uniform very, very sexy. But batons, like guns, are more likely to bring about a fear response in a woman, or one of disgust. Certainly not lubrication. (Need I point out that if a baton was a real female turn-on there would have been no need for the vaseline?) Helping and rescuing people is often considered adorable by women. Hurting people often isn’t.
And it has already been agreed by half the nation talking about it that half the nation is not engaging in group sex. (Imagine your average dinner party if they were!)
And defence lawyers note - group sex is rarely, if ever, consensual when there is a group of much larger older men in a position of authority and only one young woman.
Heterosexual group sex usually involves a balance of the genders. (Where was Rickard’s defence lawyer in the 1970s and 80s?) Women usually are very, very frightened when a group of men in uniform hold her down and force sex on her, one after another. It’s usually called rape, and gang rape. And not even allegedly.
I am very grateful to the sub or journo who said of a thin-lipped, fat, balding, unkind looking ex-policeman: “The man said to be so attractive to women”.
It’s nice to have a chuckle during such an unfunny story. And since when was a smirking moustached man with a rounded fringe considered a hunk or a honey? (Only by juries in rape cases it seems.)
OK, one reporter anonymously admitted she found him attractive back in the day, but he hadn’t yet presented her with a crowd of his mates, and a baton. Note: not sexy to women.
Links:
- Police sex case: Brad Shipton Leader of the Pack
- Auckland’s still my station says Rickards
- Police sex case: CIB chief on Nicholas case counts
- Sex on car bonnet – Rickards faces new claim
- Group-sex rate overstated but growing
- Lawyer pushed for a separate trial
- “It was a pack rape in the worst sense”
- Shipton faces new sex allegation
- Police sex case: (Louise Nicholas) Why would I lie about this? Why would I make this up?
- Police sex case: The players
- Trio acquitted in police sex trial
- Rape reporting in the New Zealand media 'The Attack and Defence', by Ali Bell
