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Seven Subliminal Images with the Word Sex Barely-legally Hidden Inside
How do companies like Disney and Pepsi constantly force the idea of sex into your subconscious mind?
This article gives seven ranked examples of the outrageous subliminal images they use to do this. Comics, movies, and foods intended for children all contain hidden messages of sex.
Webster’s dictionary defines subliminal as “existing or functioning below the threshold of consciousness.” Subliminal messages are messages that are hidden inside images, music, or videos with the intention of provoking the recipient’s subconscious mind into processing some thought without their conscious mind being aware of it. Subliminal images contain subliminal messages which, in essence, without your knowledge, cause you to think or do something you would not have done otherwise.
1: Disney’s Lion King
Although technically not an image, this frame from Disney’s animation “The Lion King” is perhaps the most famous and disputed subliminal message ever discovered. When Simba sends up a dust cloud the letters “S-E-X” can clearly be seen when the movie was paused. Although the films animators defended the dust as spelling out an abbriviation for “special effects”, the formed letters were edited out all the newest versions of the movie in order to avoid further conflicts over the issue. Disney is notorious for the many sexually natured subliminal images aimed at kids uncovered in its works.
Movie Posters
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Three fantasy movie posters, and yet… This is by far the most obvious location of hidden naughtiness. I mean these had to either have been arranged like this as a joke by some employee or are truly a very interesting act of chance.
Flowers
At first glance we see what appear to be several pretty flowers. However, looks can be deceiving, a second look at the negative space in between the three flowers uncovers the three letters which spell out America’s dirty little secret.
Skittles Bag
Put together the “S” in the red skittle and the “eX” in explosion and what do you get? Thats right, even candy promotes sex now.
Pepsi Cans
In the summer of 1990, in honor of the 4th of July, Pepsi began to distribute limited edition “Cool Cans” as part of a promotional campaign. A lucky drinker found an unexpected message, hidden in the new neon design, when he stacked two of the new cans atop each other.
Fifty Rupee Bill
These 50 Rupees from the Seychelles might not be able to buy sex, but they sure can stick it in your face. If you look close, and tilt your head to the right, you will see that the palm trees to the right of the woman spell a word I am sure you can all guess by now. Hint: the top two leaves form the letter “S”.
X-Men Comics
This comic from X-Men was one of many like it, part of an issue in which the artist chose to hide the word sex on each and every page. In this image, the word sex stands out because it has been colored bright red. The uploader of the comic has also circled it for those of us who cannot find it on our own.
Author’s Note: The bias nature of this article (which makes it sound like a conspiracy) was used in order to assertively present a single point of view and is not a reflection of my own personal opinion as to the legitimacy of these images or who put them there and why. Hope that’ll answer some questions. Feel free to share your own opinions.
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Proves my theory, If you go looking for something, you find it everywhere.
Top article, interesting x
Or should I say, Super article, vEry interesting X
sex is cool
I agree with Won Hoo Vent Luc.
If a graphic designer thinks adding the letters s-e-x to his image is funny, ok, I’ll buy it. But to think that corporations look to do that to promote sex? C’mon… how lame. Not worth the time. And I’m not familiar with Seychilles but I’d like to know if they even speak English there.
What a load of Crap!
Have to admit it…feeling extremely horny all of a sudden…what’s UP with that…?!
That’s highly entertaining; and obviously you’re right. The companies don’t want to sell sex, as some dummies might think, but everybody should know by now that sex sells.
And may I add that rascist and snobbishly deragotary remarks are not what I expect of Triond writers?
What a great article! Sex does grab people’s attention and wallets, that’s for sure. Keep up the great work.
This made my morning.
I enjoyed your article…it definitely gives a person something to think about. As for the fifty Rupees bill; since it’s printed in English, I would say that it’s a good bet English is spoken there, too.
Very interesting, yet disturbing in a strange way. (@ Won Hoo) But your theory is actually the psychological concept of expectancy bias. Just as you said, if you’re looking for something, you will find it. However, expectancy bias is mostly associated with surveys.
Interesting to say the least
Interesting and a bit scary
To clear a couple of points up: The Seychells are part of what was the British Commonwealth, now known as The Commonwealth Secretariate.The “woman” is Queen Elizabethh II.
interesting.
Very cool!
Having been an Art Director, Graphic Designer and Illustrator in and around Detroit and New York; I can testify that we often tried to hide things in our work that would enable us to prove that the work was our own. It was also a fun challenge. One time I illustrated the Loch Ness Monster in a Lake that I illustrated for a bottle of Scotch.
However, I can also say that no Account Executive, Rep, Creative Director or Client ever asked for such a thing from any of us. Nor does (almost) anyone in Advertising really believe that hidden words and images help to sell anything. In fact, there have been many sporatic efforts to quash this practice. If such things were discovered, the perpetrators stood a chance of losing their jobs.
Bravo to the sharp eyed observer who notices such things. They are everywhere!
You are a nutter…and by the way the “woman” on the seychelles banknote is the Queen of England.
One more thing, you could hardly call the skittles wrapper subliminal, while I’m at it, what do you make of the English counties ‘Middlesex’ or ‘Sussex’what a life they must lead, sex sex sex…
interestingly written. See even those who think you are way off have to comment. good writings
This is stupid. Sex is the fundamental tool of procreation for almost every living creature on the planet excluding asexually reproducing creatures. Whether or not the artist put this in their art is irrelevant. Seeing the word SEX isn’t going to have any effect on viewers. Sex is part of what we are stop being an idiot.
i like this article for those who don’t understand you don’t have to read the article and you surely don’t have to leave some crazy response triond is for people to write what the believe that’s what is wrong with this so called country everyone don’t want to let their sense of humor out all i can say is keep writing don’t let someone say something that messes up you writing they are lost this is for the real writer
Hmmmmmm – very entertaining. Thanks
if i post a comment will that go tward my pay roll? but that is really cool i never saw most of them at first glance.
reading too much into stuff can be I suppose sometimes people do see what they want to see whether the word sex was put into most of these intentionally though I am highly skeptical, all it tells me is that people/consumers often have sex on the brain,come on people get your minds out of the gutter
correction to my above comment I meant to say reading too much into stuff can be bad
amazing article…i will be looking at details from now on. good eye.
Really really. Isn’t this interesting. Nice work of humour. I realise from this article that I am not very observant
I have seen the Lion King one before.
My favorite is the 50 rupees… Now I’m thinking… what with the 100 rupees, or even the 500?
Very intersting, knowing that all this time we where exsposed to subliminal images.
Thanks for sharing
you’re reaching with some of them.
x-men and skittles, for instance.
but the flowers is creepy
(didn’t see the rupee one)
The best one is clearly the first one. Who thought that a innocent Disney movie could display such a word. Cheeky buggers!
that is very interesting. Even a foreign country has sex on their currency. sex is great!
Anybody with image editing software could have changed those pictures, and as for the foreign money, I’m pretty sure that sex is not in their language.
I heard of this years ago, but never saw it…until now. Thanks for the info..sexy!
Wow, I was surprised by all these. Thanks for pointing them out!
Great article! Some of these were pretty surprising!
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you guys are lame this is ridiculous
Well i am 11 and i learned that for the little mermaid cover that the illustrator was gay. The woman who designed the lion king scenes was horny, and had sex the night they made it.
*ps*,in the original black and white version of the wizard of oz, the original guy suposed to play tin-man, hung himself and in the scene where they skip through the woods, look closely and u can see him. (Newer versions edited it out). He hung himself ’cause he couldn’t act in it because he was allergic to the make-up.
ALL TRUE
its everywhere. I saw it on an advert for casserole yesterday. yes if you go looking for something it comes up. But thats exactly what they are trying to stimulate. I really dont know why the obsession with the word sex. And i dont know why it would help sell a casserole sauce. But i do know from my own investigations that everyone uses it and it does exist.
X) Everybody knowS that Disney is full of subliminal messages!!!!