by Lester Brathwaite on March 8, 2012

In honor of our month of art and design, as well as to pay homage to International Women’s Day the best way we know how — by possibly offending someone — here are fifteen sexy and openly sexist ads from the last eight decades.

This 1947 Ivory ad seems to say, “It’s okay to drop the soap, boys, ’cause it floats. And so do you.”