The furor over subliminal advertising began with the 1957 publication of Vance Packard's The Hidden Persuaders but did not really take off until James Vicary publicized his many claims about the power of concealed images.
Curlicues and streaks used to transform flat art into a more natural-looking image are often read as containing hidden images by those who go looking for concealed influences (as Procter and Gamble discovered when it began battling Satanism rumors over curls in the beard of its century-old 'man in the moon' trademark which "those in the know" read as 666, the sign of the devil). Just as clouds in a summer sky take on meaningful shapes to the one studying them, so can the odd lines and shadings within almost any drawing assume meanings the artist never intended. Is he really there? The answer depends on the viewer: some will see him, some won't. (Those who see Mae West in the same image say she's facing left with her body turned right - looking back over her shoulder, in other words.) Others see him facing the right, with his elbow behind him. Many who claim to see the little fellow say he faces left, with his erection drawn as the light streak where the camel's leg meets the body.
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The Camel man in the foreleg turns out to be a dickie waver - quite a different image from that featured over so many years in Camel ads as the symbolic hero camped in the wilderness, a loner, a man free from the impediments and obligations of civilization. His facial features are defined, as is his erect penis which protrudes in front of him. There is a little man standing in the foreleg, looking to the right, his hand on his right hip, the elbow protruding to his side. The Camel logo printed on each package is an American icon, part of the nation's history since 1913. Of course, maybe I just have a dirty mind.ĭid it begin with Wilson Bryan Key, the man who saw "S-E-X" on a Ritz cracker, or was "the naked guy on the Camels" something our grandparents snickered about? (Some have been known to assert that it's not a naked man depicted there it's Mae West.) I don't know if this would be considered a UL, though, because it's really there. Has anyone ever noticed you can see a naked man with a hard-on in the camel's front leg on a pack of Camel cigarettes? It's pretty wild. How long the belief a nude man sporting an erection can be found in the artwork of a pack of Camels has been with us is impossible to pin down:
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