Artist Makes First Ad Ever for Sex, but It Could Also Be for Office Supplies

The old pencil sharpener metaphor

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Sex sells everything—cars, hamburgers, even air fresheners. But what sells sex?

As it turns out, pencil sharpeners.

A Slovak artist who goes by the name of Matus the First claims to have created the world's first advertisement "purely to promote sex and for no other reason." (In other words, it's not for a pill or a product or anything else. It simply promotes the sex act.)

He tells Britain's Mirror: "When sex becomes a routine it is necessary to change something.

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