Very funny stuff -- :1orglaugh
But, c'mon this guy is totally naive if he really believes this...
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...beneath the seemingly innocent veil of child-like artwork was a subtle nod towards debauchery. The artists who created these covers probably never meant for them to to be used as spank fodder...
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"Spank fodder" may be a little strong -- but titillation, absolutely. Animators and illustrators of material ostensibly created for and marketed to children have been slipping sexual innuendo (sometimes subtly, sometimes not so subtly) into their work for hundreds of years.
People sometimes call this the "Daddy Factor" -- as in, let's give the Daddy's in the audience something to smirk at, so they'll feel better about bringing the kids to a "cartoon" movie.
As a student of all the intersections of mainstream and adult, this is very interesting to me. As a kid myself, I was certainly very --
errr -- grateful for the occasional Saturday morning lapse into the realm of the risque -- sometimes it was circumstantial (as in the arrangement of character action/position in a sexualy suggestive manner) sometimes they just drew really big tits and really skimpy outfits on the female characters.
Can there be any doubt that the popularity of the "toon" niche in Adult owes to a latency of sexualization from earlier in life?
Ah, innocence...
Here's an interesting article about the use of Sexual Innuendo in Disney's animated feautures --
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Disney films are a special case in this discussion, since they seem to contain a number of examples of "subliminal" sexuality -- or so people say -- :winkwink: -- and have also taken a lot of heat from Christian groups for it.
Here's a
supposed phallus in Little Mermaid:
http://www.eonline.com/News/Photos/m/mermaid.jpg
Is it REALLY a cock? I dunno.
Did the artist INTEND this? I dunno.
The scope of this issue is really MUCH larger than cartoons and illustrations. At the heart of it is the fundamental question of how SEX exists in our cultural collective. It's a fascinating area for study -- because it is here, in the realm of uncertain symbolism and subjectivity, that we can discover truths about the social nature of sexuality not in evidence in porn.
The operative questions here are "What do YOU see?" and "Do YOU think this is sexual?" Kinda like a Rorschach test -- where people reveal themselves by the things they SEE.
Here's a famous example -- this poster was released by Coca-Cola in the Australian Market in the 80's --
STORY
http://home.att.net/~a_2houseplague/coke-bottle.jpg
It's ironic that the most sexually repressive cultures, for being so vigilant, are the ones where
SEX seems to be lurking
everywhere.
HERE'S A TEST:
What do YOU see in this photograph? Anything offensive here to YOU?
http://hinterding.com/bilder/disneysex.jpg
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