I am so fucking sick of goddamn ”ED” commercials. Men, all 18 percent of you that are affected by this problem — I think if you noticed something wrong with yourselves you would seek out medical help and then find the right prescription other than feeding into these stupid things. Pharmaceutical companies are most to blame. They blare their awkward commercials, teeming with innuendos, but mostly blatant sexual language, during prime time media, where I have to sit in front of my younger siblings and vie my way around explaining what an “erection lasting more than four hours” is. It’s absolutely ridiculous and unnecessary.
I was ringing up customers today at my cashier position and right as this extremely attractive guy places his items on the belt, the TV right next to me explodes: ”VIVVVVAAAA VIAGRAAA!!!” Then goes on to talk: “be sure you are healthy enough for sex. Make sure to consult a physician if you experience erection issues.” NOBODY else was around. It was so fucking awkward. Please, Bristol Myers Squibb, go fuck yourselves. But make sure to take your pills first.
— disgused
This article appears in Jun 25 – Jul 1, 2009.
Yeah, the four hour erection warning’s a little hard to take when you’re eating Bratwurst.
And how ’bout those feminine ‘freshness’ ads that play every time I have a tuna sandwich??
Awwww TTFN…I’ll never be able to enjoy a tuna sandwich again.
As for the ads, they aren’t just targeting the 18% of men with ED. They want every male, and female having sex with them, to know about their product to “enhance” their sex life.
awwwhhh the feminine ‘freshness’ ads gross me out and I’m a lady!
ATTENTION FEMININE PRODUCTS AND PHARMACEUTICAL COMPANIES:
You are wasting money with these television ads. Those who require your products already know about them and how and where to obtain them. Please stop the humiliating and insulting ad campaigns. They are NOT wanted!!!
I am equally disgusted by today’s advertising standards OP.
Thank goodness a certain shampoo company finally stopped those embarrassing ‘orgasmic’ tv ads. (Why was it always women in the shower scenes?)
I am far from a prude but those ads were in extreme poor taste and insulting to women everywhere! Of course in the advertising world ‘sex sells’ but these ads went way over the line!
Imagine having to explain the context to a 5 year old when it was aired accidently around 5pm instead of after 9pm which is required. (So the execs decide that this crap is appropriate for one’s adolescent to view while trying to watch a show together? This is wrong on so many levels!!!)
Being vocal to these companies, starting online petitions to present to them, etc. can have results. Our voices need to be heard to make a change.
How about…have a happy period…..if that does not slap women in the face…I did a marketing focus group once on this very product and they asked to rate certain things about the product….and when they asked if I had anything else to say….YES
Can you change that last sentence….it insults women …even for women who have no issues during their monthly using happy in the same context as menstruation is out of context… peaceful yes ……….. happy nada…..
As you see they didnot listen to me….. 🙁
Now on the other had those razors for women commercials are brilliant…..tastefully done…where women walk behind a bush/shrub and it takes the shape of however she shaves her self…..very well done…..
You’ll notice those commercials are part of American TV advertising. They come on right after the ad for the 2.99 iHop special and boy, doesn’t that piss you off? Where can you eat breakfast in Canada for 2.99?
Viagra is simply a monument to the mythical eternal woody of male Baby Boomers. Some of those poor saps are having such a rough time with all the pressures to keep young and relevant. Between that and Grecian formula, every 20 year old drop-dead gorgeous woman in HRM should be swooning with orgasmic delight at the chance to jump the bones of a 53 year old horndog with a hard on a cat can’t scratch and a dog can’t chew. Excuse me while I fill up a 2 litre Pepsi bottle with bile.
I love the feminine hygiene product ads that make it seem like having your period is FUN! and we should just go dance around in celebration because our vaginas are bleeding! REJOICE! *barf*
Also, I’ve heard that viagra works for chicks too — chicks with their own form of sexual dysfunction and it can make orgasms 10000x more intense for the ladiez.
I find it humourous that we don’t have a cure for the common fucking cold, but we can make limp dicks “rise to the occasion.” heh.
PK – too bad they couldn’t use Viagra for the common cold, in some cases it may only last 4 hours! but the boogers would be crusty.
The ads for shaving with the shrubs are stupid and racist.
I have a great product for “feminine freshness,” it’s called “bathing regularly.”
If an erection lasted more than four hours, you could always use it as a donut holder or a towel rack.
Pfizer makes Viagra not Bristol Meyer Squibb…..or so I hear *nervous laugher, looks around*
The western culture needs to have one collective gang bang and get over the whole sexually repressed thing already.
Why is it that only people in this part of the world scream a giggle like a 4 year old at the sight of “pee pee parts”. Have you seen some of the commercials outta the Netherlands or Australia? Those would NEVER get approved to air in North America, well maybe Canada but certainly not the “family values” culture of the US. By Family Values i mean of course bible thumping puritans on the right.
That’s why I love Europe. They pole-vault all over town with their four hour erections.
lol @ TTFN.
…..”were you can smoke hash in church and Janet Jacksons nipple is on their flag” – Bill Maher
What’s really bothersome as most of you are well aware is that Viagra started as a treatment for heart conditions. It just goes along with our society’s obsession with staying young, I guess. It’s perfectly normal for 65 year old men with raging hard-ons and the sex drive of a 19 year old.
Most people want to win a million – I wanna be a Cannibas Cup judge in Amsterdam. I’ll even go to the Red Light district and let my Double-Dees cascade to my feet, then do a little kick dance to ‘Funkytown’.
Is it permissible to tell a joke in this place?
a young guy is new to sales, a customer comes to the store for a lawnmower, the kid sells him one. The senior sales associate (insert failed grade 8) says to the kid, that’s not how you do it, he buys a lawnmower, it means he needs the grass to grow, you sell him fertilizer.
The enlightened kid applies the knowledge; another man enters the store for some “feminine products” the kid sells him some and then interjects with ” would you be interested in buying lawnmower?” – the baffled guy says “why?” the sales kid responds ” well you’re not gonna get laid, might as well cut the grass”.
TTFN — the towel and donut quip nearly sent me tumbling over my bed-tower to my death.
You forgot to tell the joke after that story.
Bed Tower? I had a bed tower back in the 70s – a double bed up on stilts with a hammock and my 10 speed hung underneath. I had a sign on the ceiling that read: ‘REMEMBER – YOU ARE SIX FEET OFF THE FLOOR’.
I bought 6 Tempurpedic imitation foam mattresses at Costco a few years ago because they were all on sale- 20 bucks apece – and kept stacking them one on top of another. I literally climb up to my bed every night and sink right into it.
Must be like sinking into a huge Pillsbury Dough Boy. Just slug it when it giggles.
I love Bill Maher….
Ah yes… I miss Europe… We traveled all over the continent.. It was fun watching Batman in english with various subtitles.. and movies in France with french subtitles (quebecois movie, translated into european french)..
Commercials had blatant nudity.. the shampoo commercial showed the full figure of an “average” woman.. the “blue movies” (bleu nuit – here) are REALLY blue with explicit sex scenes..
How about nude beaches within a hundred meters of the autobahn? Not only young, in shape people, but people of all ages, races and stages of fitness..
Or the hostels in Amsterdam with co-ed showers.. my first weekend in one (age 20) I think I was the cleanest I’ve EVER been… LOL.. the red light district (not just in Amsterdam, Brussels has one also). Also live sex shows in the red light district.. the sex museum is a pretty interesting place also.. oh the red light district is called that because ladies sit in lingerie in front of the windows and when the ladies are “available” they turn the red lights on.. when they have a client or are finished for the evening, they turn the red lights off… Also, all the “ladies” are tested monthly by the government and by law they have to use protection..
Also in the great city of AMS, marijuana is available in “smoke shops”.. you can smoke it in the shop (cigarettes are not allowed in most anymore), carry it legally on your person and the police aren’t allowed to search you for drugs. If you smoke a “j” on the street, you will be asked to put it out and find a private place to smoke… a VERY civilized attitude.. mind you they also have prescription plans for heroin (get clean needles at a needle exchange), and they pay you to go to school..
Too bad they don’t have the beer machines anymore… but it IS legal in much of Europe to drink in public, and in Germany being intoxicated isn’t a crime unless you intend to drive.. In 1984 it was 1 Deutchmark (about $.25 at the time) for a can of German beer in a can…
But the CHEAPEST beer was in Beijing, (1994) where I found liters of beer for (approx) $.12/litre..
I miss those old days… … 🙂
Maybe it’s cause I majored in marketing and PR – but I love these commercials – they’re very clever and memorable.
They’ve been handy conversation starters with my kids. As awkward as the questions might be they force us to get to the facts of the matter in a quirky funny fashion. Temper the information appropriately for their age of course but don’t be afraid to educate your children with facts. Helps Daddy make strong babies might be an answer the OP could provide her questioning siblings.
Or…. just not lying to them?