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“Sex Sells”

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Article inspired by listening to this song  I Just Had Sex Feat Akon   thanks to a good pal who wanted to make my day. It’s definitely made my day, can’t stop listening to it. The song has over 70m hits since it got posted on 19 th Dec, 2010 on You Tube. It has sold over 250,000 digital copies in the USA, in its first two weeks. It made me thinking, the word “sex” sells. Use the word on an advert, movie, song or gossip; automatically it captures people’s attention. Few of our artists here at home have used it to get ‘fame’ and its proved to have worked. The question I pose, did the use of “sex” to promote products and bring fame start recently or was it there before our parents thought they’ll end up together???  Sex in advertising started since the beginning of advertising. The first companies to cash lots of money with the use of “sex” advertising were; W. Duke & Sons introduced in 1885 thanks to the advert become the leading cigarette brand by 1890, J...

Acceptance

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Over the weekend I’ve been thinking a lot about Acceptance. It’s a battle we are all fighting. It’s the common thing us human beings share no matter the classes in society we are in, we want to be ACCEPTED... Acceptance deals with positive welcome; favour and endorsement. In which, a person could like someone and have acceptance for them due to their approval of that person. Top of my list is; SELF acceptance. Self acceptance is being in love and happy with whom you are now. It’s an agreement with yourself to appreciate, validate, accept and support who you are at this moment. Many people are not content with themselves or what they have at the moment. They are either competing with themselves or with their friends. When he buys a powerful car, he goes ahead and buys a better one just to prove a point. Yes, they are such men out there don’t think it’s only ladies who compete amongst themselves. I can’t even list the things ladies compete over because the list is endless. How...