Women can be bought with candy.

I recently looked at several advertisements that depicted women becoming madly in love after being given candy. One in particular, the 1957 Beech-Nut Peppermint Gum ad, shows a young lady choosing one admirer over another solely because of his choice in gum. Women are not that dumb. They do not chose one man over another because of the gum. In extreme cases, some women may choose one over the other if they like them the same but the gum is not a major factor. Ads of the time often showed similar images. Women being bought with matierial things. Men are attracted to this image because it seems ideal that a man should be able to get a beautiful girl without working at it or making her like him for who he is.