{"id":1668,"date":"2009-12-21T22:26:21","date_gmt":"2009-12-22T06:26:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/?p=1668"},"modified":"2009-12-23T13:25:52","modified_gmt":"2009-12-23T21:25:52","slug":"im-not-a-prude-but","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/im-not-a-prude-but\/","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;m not a prude but &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1669\" title=\"51343633\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/51343633.jpg\" alt=\"51343633\" width=\"500\" height=\"345\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/51343633.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/51343633-150x103.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/51343633-300x207.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/>&#8230; doesn&#8217;t this push the envelope a bit far, even by Vegas standards? After all, a long time ago (i.e., pre-AIDS), &#8220;bathhouse&#8221; had but one connotation and not an especially sanitary one. So this ad for <strong>Mandalay Bay<\/strong>, tacitly promoting casual hookups in imagery that is (to say the least) overtly homoerotic, arrives as something of a shock.<\/p>\n<p>Or is it that we&#8217;re so inured to a barrage of marketing messages that, for decades, have promoted a pretty jaded and debauched notion of heterosexuality &#8212; reinforced by the dissolute nightclub and pool-party cultures &#8212; that our senses are dulled toward hetero-centric advertising campaigns with subtle messages like, &#8220;Get ready to buck all night&#8221;? But when an ad blindsides us out of left field like this, one&#8217;s long-dormant sense of moral <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">approval<\/span> opprobrium is abruptly reawakened.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The sundry bacchanalia<\/strong> and saturnalia of Las Vegas should represent equal-opportunity dissipation. Besides, isn&#8217;t it hypocritical to tut-tut when the &#8220;What happens here&#8221; genre of marketing is repositioned to include our gay siblings? Clearly it is. But does the Mandalay Bay ad go too far in attempting to redress a historic imbalance? Wiser heads than mine will have to render that verdict.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; doesn&#8217;t this push the envelope a bit far, even by Vegas standards? After all, a long time ago (i.e., pre-AIDS), &#8220;bathhouse&#8221; had but one connotation and not an especially sanitary one. So this ad for Mandalay Bay, tacitly promoting &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/im-not-a-prude-but\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[28,53,11,9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1668"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1668"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1668\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1696,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1668\/revisions\/1696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}