“You Stink” Say Desperate Soap Product Makers in New Ads

Drawing by Martha Rosenberg.

If you are online or on TV and radio you can’t miss it: personal care corporations telling you that you stink. Just trying to sell products. Even if you are using deodorant on “those places,” your body smells all over say a disturbing number of ads. And, if you smell all over, you are probably contaminating your sofa, chairs and whole house with “odor transfer” say these ads–a Madison Avenue concocted problem like “Ring Around the Collar” and “Visible Panty Line.” And that’s not all. Since you smell...