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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Scott Christian" data-source="post: 9341456" data-attributes="member: 6901101">Cosmo and Vogue's chief editor's were women. They understand what sells - skin. Particularly aesthetically pleasing models showing skin. You can point to patriarchy all over the place, and much is true. But the real truth is you will not find a direct correlation to patriarchy and free-market advertising in the 80s, 90s, and 00s. It is way too convoluted for a direct line. It is an oversimplification of a freer society, relaxation of morals, and a boom in cheap color printing/publishing. The market is the driver. They decide where to go. And the market for people under 30 in the 80s and 90s was driven by hypersexualization. It literally drove almost all advertisements, not just D&D. This included ads towards female markets as well. There is a reason Calvin Klein showed Mark Walburg in just his underwear grabbing a big old bulge. There is a reason every cologne and perfume ad showed three people lying half naked together. There is a reason so many book covers used a shirtless Fabio. I mean, even the Nokia phone ad for the 90s just showed a muscular arm doing a bicep pose with the phone balanced on the bicep. No matter who ran the company, it was about sex and skin, especially for that target audience. It was not just a D&D thing that tried to appeal to horny teenagers. It was driven by a wasteland of ads that all did the same thing. But maybe by your reply, you mean to say that D&D was the driver for all those other companies. Maybe? I'd like to think so. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /></blockquote>

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