Article: The Orlando Sentinel, Fla., Susan Strother Clarke column: Sexy ads seem to miss target.(Column)

Byline: Susan Strother Clarke

Sep. 8--Sex is dull. I'm not talking about the real thing, but about the propensity among magazine advertisers to use sexy images to pander to young women. This comes from Jon Morris, one of three researchers from the University of Florida who found that lusty female models -- light on clothing but heavy on come-hither looks -- caused a collective snore among the very customers they were trying to attract.

It's not that the test group found the models offensive. They found them boring. Sexy advertising is so common that it didn't register with the test group. When Morris and his team showed the group photos of ...

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