{"id":2712,"date":"2020-09-04T07:37:22","date_gmt":"2020-09-04T14:37:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/?p=2712"},"modified":"2020-08-09T19:52:53","modified_gmt":"2020-08-10T02:52:53","slug":"468-electric-spot-reducer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/468-electric-spot-reducer\/","title":{"rendered":"468 &#8211; Electric Spot Reducer"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"746\" height=\"492\" src=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/electric-spot-reducer.png\" alt=\"An ad for an &quot;Electric Spot Reducer&quot; in Adventures of the Unknown #17, January 1951\" class=\"wp-image-2713\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/electric-spot-reducer.png 746w, https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/electric-spot-reducer-300x198.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 746px) 100vw, 746px\" \/><figcaption>An ad for an &#8220;Electric Spot Reducer&#8221; in Adventures of the Unknown #17, January 1951<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Remember that episode of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mad_Men\">Mad Men<\/a> where Peggy tries out that electric weight loss belt and it turns out to be a vibrator?  Well that was based on real products, one of which ran ads in Marvel and ACG comic books throughout 1950-1951, usually showing a woman &#8220;pleasuring&#8221; herself seductively.  I guess &#8220;weight loss&#8221;, &#8220;can&#8217;t sleep&#8221; and &#8220;muscular aches&#8221; are code for sexual frustration?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"519\" src=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/electric-spot-reducer-2-1024x519.png\" alt=\"Another ad for the &quot;Electric Spot Reducer&quot;.\" class=\"wp-image-2714\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/electric-spot-reducer-2-1024x519.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/electric-spot-reducer-2-300x152.png 300w, https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/electric-spot-reducer-2-768x390.png 768w, https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/electric-spot-reducer-2.png 1230w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>Another ad for the &#8220;Electric Spot Reducer&#8221;.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Remember that episode of Mad Men where Peggy tries out that electric weight loss belt and it turns out to be a vibrator? Well that was based on real products, one of which ran ads in Marvel and ACG comic books throughout 1950-1951, usually showing a woman &#8220;pleasuring&#8221; herself seductively. I guess &#8220;weight loss&#8221;, &#8220;can&#8217;t [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2713,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[476,41,179],"class_list":["post-2712","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-476","tag-advertising","tag-sexuality"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2712","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2712"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2712\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2715,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2712\/revisions\/2715"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2713"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}