This post I stumbled across contains a couple of my favourite things, vintage things and amusing attitudes. However, how much have things really changed, and were men equally targeted for advertising abuse? These are things I wish to know, and maybe someday will learn.
Have a read and stumble upon such delights as this warning about what might happen if you don’t wash… down there: 
As an added treat here’s a humorously sexist coffee advert from the early sixties:
Madeleine Swann 