The average US woman weighs as much as the average 1960s man The average American woman weighs 166.2 pounds, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. As reddit recently pointed out, that's almost exactly as much as the average American man weighed in the early 1960s. Men, you're not looking too hot in this scenario either. Wonkbook newsletter Your daily policy cheat sheet from Wonkblog. Please provide a valid email address. Overall weight gain since 1960 is slightly greater for women (18.5 percent) than for men (17.6 percent). But story is mostly one of growing girth, and it basically boils down to three factors: we're eating less healthy food, we're eating more of it, and we're not moving around as much. The average American is 33 pounds heavier than the average Frenchman, 40 pounds heavier than the average Japanese citizen, and a whopping 70 pounds heavier than the average citizen of Bangladesh. Together, the world's adult human beings added up to 287 million tons of biomass in 2005, according to the BMC Public Health study.
Sex sells: how porn and digital dating transformed an advertising cliché As taboos about online porn break down and new generations of singles see dating sites and apps as their first stop in the search for love, marketers have spotted an opportunity. These digital venues have become the next logical place for advertising to grow and reach an expanding audience. In the process, they have changed our thinking about the adland mantra "sex sells". Think about it. Our daily lives are punctuated by regular virtual interactions. Statisticians say we’re having less actual sex, but our online lives include a huge chunk of sex-linked ‘activity’. Guilty secrets Cue the rise of advertising via dating apps or porn sites. This is big news for the mainstream media, with porn-site (and even dating-app) advertising by ‘regular’ brands virtually guaranteed blanket press coverage, as fashion brand Diesel has shown this year by running a campaign on Pornhub and Grindr. The last taboo? Advertising on porn sites is certainly not going to hit the mainstream any time soon.
“I Feel Forgotten”: A Decade of Struggle in Rural Ohio In the spring of 2009, I travelled to rural Ohio to meet the people my friend Matt Eich had been photographing. It was an uneasy time in America. Depression-style tent cities were springing up across the country. The foreclosure crisis was looming. As Matt and I drove along Route 13, a highway that snakes through the Appalachian hills in the southeastern part of the state, the sense of dissolution deepened. Matt, a Virginia native who was studying photography as an undergraduate at Ohio University, in Athens, was interested in what was left. Many of his photographs from the region, which are collected in the new book “Carry Me Ohio,” show scenes of poverty and disaffection. If Matt had a muse, it was Jessie, an unemployed ironworker, party animal, and backcountry poet. Matt, who now lives with his wife and two kids in Charlottesville, Virginia, returns to visit the Sellerses a few times each year, and has continued to take their pictures.
Why Have Pop Stars Become So Hyper-Sexualized? | Huffington Post “Beyonce is a woman who is not surrounded by 100 different people telling her what to do.” The discussion surrounding the hyper-sexualization of the music industry is much more complex than pointing out that everyone is wearing thongs now. Things have certainly gotten sexier. “I have two kids, so the normalization of the hyper-sexualization is troubling to me,” she told HuffPost Entertainment. In writing “Beyond The Lights,” Prince-Bythewood was very interested in the way personas are formed, especially for young female artists. “If you are not fully formed yet and you come out with a specific persona, you lose your sense of self,” she said. Prince-Bythewood did a lot of research before setting out to create “Beyond The Lights.” “I was very fortunate to be able to speak with a number of singers who were very honest with me. As Prince-Bythewood sees it, there are some highly sexualized performers who aren’t succumbing to anything at all. Also on HuffPost: Celebrity Photos: July 2015
After Slavery, Searching For Loved Ones In Wanted Ads In 1886, Nancy Jones placed an ad seeking her son, Allen, in an ad in The Christian Recorder of Philadelphia. Courtesy of Last Seen hide caption toggle caption Courtesy of Last Seen In the waning years of the Civil War, advertisements like this began appearing in newspapers around the country: "INFORMATION WANTED By a mother concerning her children." More than 900 of these "Information Wanted" notices — placed by African-Americans separated from family members by war, slavery and emancipation — have been digitized in a project called Last Seen: Finding Family After Slavery, a collaboration between Villanova University's graduate history program and Mother Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Philadelphia. Margaret Jerrido, archivist at Mother Bethel, is a partner in the project, which is believed to be the first of its kind. Evans Green searches for his mother, Phillis, through an ad placed in The Black Republican of New Orleans in 1865.
Adblocking could be the best thing for the advertising industry | Media Network For decades the UK has maintained hydroelectric power stations simply to cope with the power surges that come from people switching on kettles during the Coronation Street ad break. Yet we think of adblocking as a new crisis. Marketing people form two extreme groups at the moment. Those who think everything is changing faster than ever and only consider the new and those who feel the changes are small, incremental and we need to base new learning on centuries-old techniques. Adblocking is a good example of this. It’s common to see adblocking discussed as an existential threat to advertisers and publishers. One of the most crucial roles for advertising agencies today is leading a path through what is changing and what is not for clients. Looking back in a few years’ time, we will be amazed that we let our attention become the default way to pay for content and we will be amazed how cheaply it traded. It’s a war on our eyeballs and they feel tired. 1. 2. 3. 4.
Liberals Aren’t Like the Rest, or So They Think Liberals tend to underestimate the amount of actual agreement among those who share their ideology, while conservatives tend to overestimate intra-group agreement, according to new research published in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science. These findings may help to explain differences in how political groups and movements, like the Tea Party and Occupy Wall Street, gain traction on the national stage: “The Tea Party movement developed a succinct set of goals in its incipient stages and effectively mobilized its members toward large-scale social change quite quickly,” says psychological scientist Chadly Stern of New York University. Stern, with co-authors Tessa West and Peter Schmitt, recruited almost 300 hundred participants to complete an online survey. Liberals showed what the researchers call “truly false uniqueness,” perceiving their beliefs as more divergent from the beliefs of other liberals than they actually were.
Why Sex In Advertising Doesn’t Sell Like It Used To | Linkdex Babevertising has a long and storied history in the Super Bowl, including recent highlights like Bar Refaeli smooching a nerd for GoDaddy, Kate Upton blowing bubbles for Mercedes, and Charlotte McKinney making puns for Carl’s Jr. But Super Bowl 50 was different. In fact, there was a conspicuous absence of babes, other than perhaps Helen Mirren, or Ryan Reynolds and Drake. Why? Mirren’s relative babeworthiness is a debate for another time and place, but it is worth noting her Super Bowl debut came at an intriguing cultural moment in the U.S. Hillary For America Americans are closer to having a woman in the White House than they’ve ever been before. But this cultural backdrop extends well beyond politics to include major moments in sports, entertainment, and media – all with powerful, influential women at their core. Queen Bey Look at Beyoncé, for example. Shake It Off ‘Beauty Doesn’t Take Just One Form’ Babevertising 2.0 Girls, Girls, Girls
Most Surprising Things About America, According To Indian International Student Pornhub Released Insights On Millennial Porn Habits And Millennials Have Some Weird-Ass Porn Habits Last weekend adult video juggernaut Pornhub released a batch of data showing the porn viewing habits of millennials (everyone aged 18-34). The ‘Millennial Porn Watching Habits’ data dump from Pornhub was actually a helluva lot more illuminating that I would have ever expected it to be, providing some insight into millennial behavior (and P-Hub traffic) I never would’ve imagined. Below are some graphs showing the most popular search terms, categories, time spent, and gender differentials of millennials watching adult video on Pornhub…All of this is 100% suitable for work. Like I alluded to before, some of the things Pornhub shared in the press release I received this morning was a tad bit shocking. Well, before I give away too much, here are a few of the charts, graphs, and infographics from PornHub’s ‘Coming of Age: Millennials‘ data dump: Pornhub
The real reason Playboy is getting rid of nude photos Sure, sex sells. As long as it’s free. Earlier this week, Playboy announced that it will do away with full nudity in an effort to rebrand its fallen empire. “The political and sexual climate of 1953, the year Hugh Hefner introduced Playboy to the world, bears almost no resemblance to today,” said Playboy Enterprises CEO Scott Flanders. The shift, however, has little to do with feminist wins and everything to do with finally understanding our digital world and the cost of an outdated business model. Hugh Hefner is widely considered to be the founding father of the sexual revolution – he shocked the world with a nude of cover of Marilyn Monroe in 1953 – but the business model that made Hefner a pioneer is just obsolete. To those of us over the age of say, 40, Playboy once held an almost mystical, forbidden fascination. Hugh Hefner signing copies of the Playboy calendar.Photograph by Ian West — PA Wire/PA Images Fortunately for Playboy, it was never entirely about nudity. Change is necessary
Social media, sexualisation and the selfie generation - The Drum Analysis Updated Selfies, sexting and twerking are all part of a teen continuum that has been outraging older generations since Elvis first thrust those hips. We are heading towards a time when the label 'narcissist' will be just another term of endearment. For those of us still grappling with definitions of sexting and twerking ( my spellcheck hasn't caught up yet), a selfie is that arm's length self portrait or reflection in a mirror shot, taken on a phone and uploaded to social media sites like facebook and Instagram. When older generations travelled, we mostly pointed the camera outward. Get used to it. I've been trawling through teen selfie collections researching the Australian Story episode "Turning The Gaze." It features 16-year-old Melbourne school girl Olympia Nelson who recently penned a striking opinion piece for The Age on the 'dark undercurrents of teenage girls' selfies'. If social media only caused narcissism, it wouldn't be the worst thing. Why indeed?