23 Responses to “Let’s Have Sex!”

• Devin
  November 22nd, 2006
  1:32 pm
  
  

  A tad long. I couldn’t get past the second line and, well, then the message is then lost on me, right?

• Ben
  November 22nd, 2006
  1:43 pm
  
  

  Nice way to end the week.

• Yan
  November 22nd, 2006
  2:05 pm
  
  

  What site was mentioned at the bottom?
  I can only see visit http://www.????.org part…

• Noah Kagan
  November 22nd, 2006
  2:07 pm
  
  

  Yan, the site is http://www.youthaids.org.

• UNEASYsilence » Keep at it, just remember AIDS kills
  November 22nd, 2006
  4:39 pm
  
  

  [...] Thoughts? Pretty good at expressing the fact that AIDS kills. I’ll be honest, it took me a few seconds to realize it’s a story board of sorts. Try not to focus on a single position. Rather, focus on the positions as pieces of a story. [via] [...]

• Devin
  November 22nd, 2006
  5:24 pm
  
  

  And by ‘get past’ I mean, I got distracted pondering these figures.. didn’t have any desire to move down the poster.

• Michael Herzog
  November 23rd, 2006
  12:54 am
  
  

  It´s a little bit much, at first I thought it is an ad for a new font or something.
  So I “scanned” to the end where I noticed several icons that looked the same and that was the moment I noticed that there was a message at all.

  I like the idea.

• Sean Howard
  November 23rd, 2006
  7:58 am
  
  

  I loved it.

  I wish I still had sex like that.

• Roger von Oech
  November 24th, 2006
  11:43 am
  
  

  I think it’s great.

  It has it all: SEX, SIMPLICITY, FUN, NARRATIVE, and a POWERFUL TAKE-AWAY message.

  Sex: it’ll always draw people in.

  Simplicity: no words — just easy to comprehend figures.

  Fun: amusing variety of positions.

  Narrative: as you move from panel to panel, the reader begines to realize that it tells a story.

  Powerful takeway: the message is “actions have consequences — take precautions.”

• Ray Dotson
  November 26th, 2006
  5:34 am
  
  

  Interesting way to get the message across. I don’t think I’ve ever seen something quite like this, shorter ones, but not like this one.

• Susan Jones
  November 26th, 2006
  8:22 pm
  
  

  Fantastic ad.

• Jason
  November 27th, 2006
  4:15 am
  
  

  I am a teacher. This ad will fail.

  Here is what kids are going to do.

  1. They will go by in the hall and laugh
  2. They will circle the sex pictures and draw fake anatomy on them
  3. They will label the characters by students names
  4. Parents will be outraged and the admin will be forced to take it down.
  5. Repeat all four steps.

• Mike W
  November 28th, 2006
  9:00 am
  
  

  This advertisement isn’t accurate.

  If the two figurines in the poster represented a manogamous couple, their chances of contracting HIV would represent zero.

  Sex by itself is not an agent of proliferation for AIDS. Promiscuous sex is, and much more so if it isn’t conventional heterosexual contact.

  Furthermore, straight sex is by no means the leading cause by which AIDS spreads. On this front, it PALES in comparison to anal sex and the use of hypodermic needles.

  My biggest problem with the whole AIDS education infrastructure is that it preaches methods that have been proven to fail. It also seems to hammer home a mantra-like message that never seems to sink in. It slyly condones certain forms of high-risk behavior while hailing condoms or other contraceptives as a cure-all. In my experience, people that screw around with strangers don’t always use condoms. And for the most part, people that maintain lifelong manogamous relationships rarely if ever get AIDS.

• Manuel
  November 30th, 2006
  1:31 am
  
  

  The end of my day…geez!!

• John
  November 30th, 2006
  5:02 am
  
  

  Whoa, heavy. You start out amused by the pics, and then become bummed by the end of it. Makes you think…

• Adam & Hawa » A Reminder for The Rest of Us
  November 30th, 2006
  6:41 pm
  
  

  [...] Boys and girls, please don’t try this at home… (via orkdork.com) [...]

• Thomas Holmes
  December 1st, 2006
  6:05 am
  
  

  A little crazy i think.

  Message for me reads - ’sex will kill you’.

  It’s a linear story which leaves not a whole lot of room for ambiguity. Perhaps it’s ’sex in multiple positions will kill you’, it will ‘certainly leave you alone and sick’.

  Perhaps it was the furniture that did it?

• Noah Mittman
  December 1st, 2006
  3:58 pm
  
  

  Not only is this ad is terribly Anti-Sex, but the message is also incredibly ambiguous to the treatment.

  To Mike W’s point, not only does it not illustrate any high-risk situations for AIDS, it may in fact illustrate the *lowest-risk* situation around for the audience it is targeting: monogamous sex.

  It doesn’t educate, there’s no action being promoted — not even “Get Tested” — and the only thing it clarifies is that AIDS still exists. At “best” a few kids will get scared out of having sex. *Scared.* Yikes.

  But for those that aren’t, this is a great manual! (Cut of rows 1-4, Fold into pocket)

• kate
  December 4th, 2006
  1:31 am
  
  

  You guys are too literal. Think of it as “each different position represents a different partner”. This poster is aimed at college students, who are known for “hooking up” with different people as a lifestyle. They’ll get it.

• Noah Kagan
  December 4th, 2006
  1:33 am
  
  

  I guess I saw it as one person having tons of sex and the aftermath of that. This is a great advertisement in my opinion as I have remembered it and thought of it multiple times since seeing it.

• Grant
  December 4th, 2006
  1:35 am
  
  

  Loved it! Have you seen the porn iPod commercial; I am digg these people’s creativity one drop at a time and add them into a pod! I’ll call it a creative pod. Or, Juicy pod…yeah, you get the idea!

• Geeker Vision
  January 30th, 2007
  10:50 pm
  
  

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• sunboy
  May 10th, 2007
  12:47 am
  
  

  I will try all these positions.I think it’s cool!

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