"Male" pharmaceutical ads on TV

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It really does take a lot to get me fed up, but watching the NFL this weekend, with my twelve year old son, I had had it. The drug companies are peddling their wares (Levitra, etc.) with lengthy advertisements during sports events. I found it particularly uncomfortable watching this with my son in the room…not because I am a prude, but it seems there should be some areas, even on TV, that need be overtly sexualized. I do realize that the advertising industry has injected sex into all our media, but, frankly, these ads, to me, cross the line when youngsters are most likely to be watching.

It also seems a good area where we males can exert a lot of influence. So, how about it, are we all willing to write to our local stations, cable carriers, ESPN, NBC, etc. to get these off?

Or am I offbase here? Yes or no?
 
If future historians were to judge by the ads, they would conclude that this was the “Age of Impotence.” But in fact, these drugs are not being marketed primarily to people of the Bob Dole generation. They are being marketed as lifestyle drugs to the younger generations. “Improve the experience” is the catchword. It just goes to show how sex saturated the culture has become.
 
Not at all, I am a 40 something mother and grandmom and I know just how you feel. Everything thing has its place and time, those adverts are just as embarassing as the ones for femmine products and men and women dancing around in nothing but very revealling underwear. Now what we need to figure out is the how and where to start. My DH always tries to tell me that there’s nothing we can do about it, I say poppycock, if we band together we can effect a real change.

Linda H.
 
I believe that all prescription medicines should be banned from advertising on TV. The commercials are deceitful, the drugs way overpriced for what they do. The drugs are undertested and generally less cost effective than other medicines.
 
T.A.Stobie:
I believe that all prescription medicines should be banned from advertising on TV. The commercials are deceitful, the drugs way overpriced for what they do. The drugs are undertested and generally less cost effective than other medicines.
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I completely agree. Ever watch the evening news on any of the major networks? Every single ad is for a drug of some sort. We can’t do anything about the Tums or Rolaids or Metamucil ads, but it angers me to see the “Talk to your doctor about [insert prescription drug here]…” ads.

We all know that the high markups are in large part to pay for the ad campaigns. :mad:
 
If I “asked my doctor” about every drug advertised on TV, I’d have to make a 2 hr appointment.

Worse, you know that the drug company reps visit the doctors to make sure they push these drugs, sometimes with incentives from the manufacturers.

We had the first TV on the block, back in the 1950’s. It was black & white, and got 3 channels. If my parents could have forseen what programming would appear on it in the future, they would have thrown it out immediately.
 
What makes these “Male” ads worse is that they are appealing to those without disfunction to go to the drug to enhance their performance.
 
On a similar note…

My kids and I ( my 7 and 6 year old) love to watch Extreme Makeover: Home Edition (where they rebuild a house). Pretty innocent show. But this summer they moved it to 9 PM and we were assualted with Victoria Secret commercials all the time. I’ve started taping it now to avoid these commercials.

Keith
 
Birth Control ads…Viagra ads…Levitra… Condoms… It was just a few years ago when people made a big deal that cable was airing its first condom ad…look how far we have devolved yet again…its all over non cable now.

To those who are of the world…its no big deal…to us…its truly diabolical…

And to think ads for Preparation H used to get me angry when shown at dinner time…makes one long for the good old days of plain old hemmoroid commercials. 😛
 
My remote has an on/off switch. I can also switch channels without even getting off the couch.
 
I too am so disgusted with all of this! Let alone what the commercials do to your active imagination! I am amazed that any man would even admit to this kind of problem. :eek: There are no boundaries anymore. Anything goes these days. Toothpaste and milk have sexual appeal…who would think of that?:rolleyes:

I am ranting…sorry!:banghead:

Blessings,
Shoshana
 
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Ken:
My remote has an on/off switch. I can also switch channels without even getting off the couch.
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“I am amazed that any man would even admit to this kind of problem.”

Why shouldn’t they?

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carrieloon said:
“I am amazed that any man would even admit to this kind of problem.”

Why shouldn’t they?

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On TV? Maybe I am wrong here, but I believe any man has great pride in his ‘maleness’. It is what makes the world go round. Seeing these commercials on TV implicates that there is a worldwide problem of sexual dysfunction of that nature. I do not believe it. The other posters have said that they probably take the drug to enhance their performance. I think this would be more the case. And IF that is the case, then I don’t hold to the same idea. It would not be a humiliating situation for the guy at all but a means of proving his sexuality to himself primarily.

Blessings,
Shoshana
 
PS The first scenario is bad enough but the second scenario is even more disgusting…

Whatever the reasoning is for taking the drug it should not be plastered on TV for everyone to see and hear about.

Flauting sex is demonic to say the least!

Blessings,
Shoshana
 
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On a similar note…

My kids and I ( my 7 and 6 year old) love to watch Extreme Makeover: Home Edition (where they rebuild a house). Pretty innocent show. But this summer they moved it to 9 PM and we were assualted with Victoria Secret commercials all the time. I’ve started taping it now to avoid these commercials.

Keith
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I love this show…And, to tell the truth, I haven’t noticed the ads…I never know who sponsors what. I just watch the shows. Terribly unobservant of me, I know, but…
 
Shoshana,

Yes I agree with you that television is not the place for testimonials about not being able to perform.

I thought you meant that no man should ever admit it, anytime anywhere. Which I thought was a bit extreme.

But I agree with you that doing it on primetime television, especially during an hour when kids are watching, is ridiculous.

However, Viagra is such a profitable drug and we all know that money talks. Sick isn’t it.
 
One of the frustrating things about these advertisements is that they are so deceptive. They advertise these products to people who really don’t need them. I spoke to a doctor I know about this issue, who said that he has many male patients who express interest in these drugs, but have no idea what they are supposed to do or whom they are really supposed to help. It used to be that pharmaceutical companies would advertise to medical professionals, but sometime in the last several years they learned that they sell more of their products by advertising to people who have no medical knowldedge (you and me) and can’t tell the difference between what they need and what they don’t. Shows how much they think of us and our intelligence, doesn’t it?
 
T.A.Stobie:
What makes these “Male” ads worse is that they are appealing to those without disfunction to go to the drug to enhance their performance.
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Very true, particularly Levitra - those ads really go beyond the bounds. :mad:
 
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