These Vintage Ads Would Instantly Be Banned Today

Women Aren't Decorations

Apparently, people at ad agencies back then couldn't get more creative than perceiving women as literal objects. Fortunately, the times have changed.

This Would NEVER Fly Today

There's no way that anything even remotely similar to an ad like this would ever be printed today. Who has time to read all that copy? Get out of here, Charles Antell.

The More You Know

In 1966 and 1967, soldiers testing Agent Orange in Canada were told the chemical was completely safe and sprayed it on each other to cool off.
An exotic dancer was busted by the IRS for failing to pay income tax on 1 million dollars in income she received in exchange for sex, from a single man.
The Catholic Church considers the Theory of Evolution to be "virtually certain", and believes that intelligent design "isn't science even though it pretends to be."
Only 5% of the ocean has been explored.

Post originally appeared on Upbeat News.