Enter garish, weed-like man pubes into the world of advertising. With luxury goods I think it's safe to say the ads are much less about portraying something someone would want to be than they are about seeming "somehow removed" from the rest of society. You're not buying this watch because it works better or is prettier or lighter or can make you fly. You're buying this watch because the people who buy this watch are different. What makes them different? Well for one, they are not offended by man pubes. They are not offended by this ad because they get it. Not that they could explain it to you, because you are not different so there is no hope of you understanding. They get it, you don't. They buy the watch, you don't. Prophecy fulfilled.

The trick is, for advertisers, to plant the right weeds in what has essentially become a weed-garden. Back in the day female pubes would have been more than enough, but we're post Amy Winehouse now, there's pretty much nothing shocking - sexual, disgusting, or otherwise - left about the female body. So, male anatomy: the final frontier?

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@Weegee's bored: This made me giggle, and I really need a giggle today, so thanks.

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