This ad for a Dubai tourist spot is an excellent example of the tightrope that advertisers walk in Islamic countries. If this was a Western resort, she'd be in a bikini. Client: Maydan Beach.

Not so today. In modern Russian advertising, women have taken on a new role: sex object. Ads being made in modern Russia look like the kind of thing we used to see in the U.S. in the early 1970s ...