Subliminal messages fact or fiction? I think that subliminal messages are sometimes fact and sometimes fiction, if that is even possible. With the media being aware that "sex sells" I do believe that at times they use that to their advantage to sell their product(s.). Sometimes with consumers knowing that "sex sells" they can also relate an advertising or design to sex when the designer/ company had no intent for it to even be relative to sex.
This past summer I had the opportunity of selecting a topic for my Visual and Verbal Rhetoric final project, I chose how women are used in fragrance ads. With me having to actually do an in depth analysis on the ads I did become a consumer with the mind state that "sex sells". Ever since I have done an analysis on the topic I cannot look at a perfume ad without relating it to sex. So maybe subliminal messaging is fiction and I have just fixated my mind around the fact that all fragrance ads are using the topic of sex to their benefit. What do you all think?
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