Schneier on Security

Not SoAnon • November 3, 2007 4:58 AM

@onetrackmind,

With a strap line of “spread the love” and an obiously phalic shaped handle, these are clearly aimed at a certain culinary market place…

Many many years ago when I was just a young lad I had occasion to go out with a young lady who’s father was a senior marketing executive. I made an off the cuff remark about the difference in shape betwen ladies and gents shampoo bottles, and how the former where to large to fit into a bathroom cupboard and therefore not “ergonomic”. He replied that if I looked at it slightly differently I would notice that all the mens and family bottles where fairly regular in shape or just streamlined, where as the majority of the ones specificaly aimed at women tended to have a bulge at the top and a slender round shape and an enlargend base, on seeing the blank look on my (then) innocent young face he simply said “subliminal sex sells” to which he added “they are deliberatly made to look like a phalus as this has been found to increase market share”…