Condom and vibrator commercials now on tv

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Never used to see ads for such products on TV.

A culture of permissiveness has taken over!

Saw a disgusting one last night. The mom and boy were discussing how much they miss their husband and dad, who was away in the military. While alone, the wife discovered a note from her husband stated he missed her and in the package he left was a vibrator! Using kid actors in a sex aid ad no less!
 
Yes, it is quite sickening. I’ve seen news videos from the 80s mentioning they were now going to be allowed on TV. Those commercials were very tame compared to what you see now. If you were to tape one of the commercials now and bring it back in time and show it to whoever had the authority then to allow this on TV I’m sure they’d have changed their minds and not allowed it. Wouldn’t this also be the case with everything we’ve allowed into music, movies, TV shows, etc? Every compromise society makes has a consequence though it might not be realized for 20 or so years.
 
Condom commercials have been on TV for a really long time. Although I haven’t seen commercials for sex toys, I’ve seen ads for that adam and eve online sex shop, and those do seem a bit risque.

I will say this, from what you’ve said about the vibrator commercial, at least they were using a married couple.
 
My friends it is all about one thing: $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$

Morality is not part of the criteria for those companies.
 
I was shocked by a certain chocolate popsicle commercial. So glad my children were not watching.
 
BlueEyedLady said:
Condom commercials have been on TV for a really long time. Although I haven’t seen commercials for sex toys, I’ve seen ads for that adam and eve online sex shop, and those do seem a bit risque.

I will say this, from what you’ve said about the vibrator commercial, at least they were using a married couple.
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Vibrators were shown in the Consumers Distributing catalogue in Canada as far back as the late '70s, listed as “personal massagers”. I remember being slightly creeped out but not quite knowing why. :rolleyes:

Condom ads would not bother me so much if they were advertising their proper function.
 
I have steadily lost interest in watching tv over the past year or so and wasn’t really sure why (whenever I happened to wonder about it). I never watched much of it to begin with but had my favorites. I now realize that the deeper I’ve been getting into my faith/spirituality, the less interested I am in secular media. It was just a natural pulling away on my part. Even reading magazines, listening to the radio, top 40 hits, having the news channel on all day, etc. There’s an influence, a “conditioning” or a “normalizing” that’s going on and unless you are on the lookout for it, you’re missing it (unless it’s very obvious like in this case).

I personally watch very little tv now and only have spiritual music on in the background. I also like downloading educational/faith related homilies, talks, etc. and listen to those while I’m cleaning or driving. You’d be surprised about all the neat things you learn about our faith when you do this and you don’t even miss the violence/sex/general depravity modern media blasts at us all day long 🙂

Why not consider giving tv up during Lent this year and see what happens?
 
We’ve come a long way from when vibrator ads were only found only lewd publications like the Sears catalog.
 
What’s even more disgusting is that they show the Trojan Man condom commercials during the day :eek:.
 
I haven’t seen these at all. I don’t know, maybe it is because we have Verizon Fios with DVRs and I got used to pausing then fast forwarding through commercials. Before I moved I had Time Warner basic cable with no DVR. There were some weird commercials late at night
 
Joie_de_Vivre said:
We’ve come a long way from when vibrator ads were only found only lewd publications like the Sears catalog.
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Competition, whether online or real world, is one of the reasons Sears is sliding towards bankruptcy. I guess the prevalence of condom and vibrator commercials are partly responsible.

As for such commercials, I do not watch much television (and I mentally tune-out commercials, anyways.) Are the risque commercials being shown on broadcast television, or on the cable channels? Are they worse than the Viagra and Cialis commercials?
 
Coatimundi said:
Competition, whether online or real world, is one of the reasons Sears is sliding towards bankruptcy. I guess the prevalence of condom and vibrator commercials are partly responsible.

As for such commercials, I do not watch much television (and I mentally tune-out commercials, anyways.) Are the risque commercials being shown on broadcast television, or on the cable channels? Are they worse than the Viagra and Cialis commercials?
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Sears had vibrators in their catalog a century ago.
Before the introduction of the film censorship guidelines in the 1930s (known as the Hays code), there was an era in Hollywood called “Pre-Code”, during which there were virtually no rules. In this earlier screen still from The Mystery of the Leaping Fish (1916), about a detective that solves crimes while being addicted to cocaine, both the drug and the use of syringes is clearly visible. When the Hays Code was adopted in 1930, Hollywood spent another four years ignoring it and making up their own laws. Films continued to be produced depicting sexual innuendo, profanity, illegal drug use, prostitution, infidelity, abortion or intense violence. Strong female characters dominated films and nefarious characters were seen by many as heroic rather than evil. Acting legend Clark Gable got his start during the four year era, which spawned many great, sexual and idiosyncratic films like Frankenstein and Freaks that were years ahead of their time.
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Greta Garbo’s bisexual character in the precode era film ‘Queen Christina’ (1933).
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Just a few Christmases ago, one of the main networks was playing Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer at 7:30pm (kids obviously awake and watching!) and they played a condom commercial. I was floored. :eek:
 
Joie_de_Vivre said:
Sears had vibrators in their catalog a century ago.
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No doubt that played a part in Sears astonishing success in the first half of the 20th century.

They also sold houses. Not real estate, not even prefabricated homes, but house kits that you would assemble. They would ship, by railroad, everything you needed to build a house: the blueprints, the bricks and lumber, the plumbing fixtures, the shingles and nails, the furnace and ducts… everything. All you needed to supply was the land and the labor.

Eventually, over 400 models were offered. They would even sell you a kit to build an outhouse, if that is what you wanted.
searsarchives.com/homes/

As for your link, yes, there was quite a bit in the early 20th c. which shocked those with traditional values. The Catholic Legion of Decency was created to reclaim America’s wayward culture. It had a major influence on US cinema during the mid-20th century.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catholic_Legion_of_Decency
 
Ill take condom commercials over Military recruitment commercials any day.
 
Yeah add to that the nonstop commercials and half-hour infomercials for “male enhancement products” that run constantly on basic cable, especially on the more male-oriented channels. Then again I hear some of those commercials on the local conservative talk radio station as well.

That, and I also periodically see there is an hour-long “Adult Toy Shopping” infomercial/shop-at-home program periodically during evening hours on some basic cable/DirectTV channels.
 
RosyAnne said:
I have steadily lost interest in watching tv over the past year or so and wasn’t really sure why (whenever I happened to wonder about it). I never watched much of it to begin with but had my favorites. I now realize that the deeper I’ve been getting into my faith/spirituality, the less interested I am in secular media. It was just a natural pulling away on my part. Even reading magazines, listening to the radio, top 40 hits, having the news channel on all day, etc. There’s an influence, a “conditioning” or a “normalizing” that’s going on and unless you are on the lookout for it, you’re missing it (unless it’s very obvious like in this case).

I personally watch very little tv now and only have spiritual music on in the background. I also like downloading educational/faith related homilies, talks, etc. and listen to those while I’m cleaning or driving. You’d be surprised about all the neat things you learn about our faith when you do this and you don’t even miss the violence/sex/general depravity modern media blasts at us all day long 🙂

Why not consider giving tv up during Lent this year and see what happens?
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I haven’t owned a TV set since 1992. Not hard at all to pull the plug: plenty, plenty of things to do, experience, etc., in the world of real life.
 
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