Flutterby™! : Sex doesn't sell

I wish that Violet Blue: Sex doesn't sell went a little deeper into the topic, she starts by pointing out that the Village Voice has dropped Rachel Kramer Bussel, Audacia Ray (who has her own list of recent dropped sex columns) and Tristan Taormino, along with various other media cutbacks, She asks a few questions of Steve Hall, of Adrants, but I think there's room to go much deeper on this topic.

I'm not sure how to structure that essay, though, I know that the world feels a lot less sexy of late, I think there's a metaphor for a lot of stuff in how the nation is embracing a "sex is something you use to force unwilling teenagers into marriage" former beauty pageant queen as a candidate for the Vice Presidency, and I think that there's also a metaphor for "beauty pageants" in that. I think sex in advertising is really more the unfulfilled promise of sex, Maybe it's that repression sells, "can't have that, so have this beer instead".

Anyway, no answers here.