Popular Culture Review Vol. 17, No. 1, Winter 2006 | Page 83

“You’ve Come a Long Way Baby”: An Update on the Perpetuation of Decapitation Advertisement and Its Commodification of Female Sexuality in Las Vegas, NV Manuscript History: This is a revised version o f the paper presented at the Seventeenth Annual Meeting o f the Far West Popular culture and American Culture Associations in Las Vegas, Nevada. An old Virginia Slims cigarette ad in the age of Betty Friedan professed, “You’ve come a long way, baby,” but the fact that decapitation advertising is alive and well in Las Vegas, Nevada, proves otherwise. Certainly, women in the United States can cho