Social Commentary
I don’t know about you but I for one am getting sick and tired of the Viagra, Cialis, Levitra, and Enzyte commercials. I am actually finding them offensive these days. I can’t stomach another garage band of baby boomers laughing as they sing about taking Viagra before they go fuck their wives. I don’t care how big Bob’s member is. And I sure as hell don’t want to sit in two separate tubs on the beach somewhere.
A couple years ago everyone had a hissy fit over Janet Jackson’s boobage during the Super Bowl half time show. Throughout my life I remember various social conservative movements fueled by radical right evangelical Christians to ban certain music, books, movies, and video games. The thing that most often outrages social conservatives is sex. From protesting Hustler, Playboy, stag films, burning Beatles albums, protesting Married With Children, showing ass on TV to having fits over sex education in school the moral minority in this country has often had issues with sex and what they considered to be immoral art.
It used to be all the rage to protest pornography.
So where is the outrage over these Viva Viagra commercials? Where’s the outrage over showing commercials with grandma and grandpa about to get it on when their daughter walks through the door? Why aren’t the abstinence only people up in arms? Why isn’t James Dobson on the radio every day condemning ‘male enhancement’?
Why aren’t Christians concerned about the effect these sexual enhancement commercials will have on their kids?
Imagine if the Viagra commercials featured gay lovers instead of aging baby boomers…
I swear the longer I live the less I understand people in this country.
Comments
The only thing I can think of to justify the hypocrisy is that the idea of men's sexuality is taken for granted. Women are supposed to be pure. Virgins until marriage, mothers after marriage.
Posted by: DCup | June 25, 2008 01:11 PM
I have to agree, the garage band comercial gets under my skin and on my nerves. Sick to death of it, to the point that I will jump for the remote to mute it. Great blog btw...
Posted by: Rick Owens | June 25, 2008 03:13 PM
Hi DCup, most deffinately, at least in this country, female sexual pleasure is ignored. Maybe if they develop female viagra and do a vival viagra for women ad campaign that might change. Who the hell knows.
Hi Rick, I hear ya...and thanks!
Posted by: PoliShifter | June 25, 2008 04:00 PM
I hate having to explain to a 6 year old child what they are talking about. I think they should have commercials rated so the "V" chip blocks those out.
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Posted by: Ted | June 25, 2008 06:14 PM
DcCup's got it. Dobson wants his drugs and wants the drug companies happy, but he doesn't want any happiness or joy for women.
Posted by: libhomo | June 25, 2008 06:46 PM
I have a feeling that the evangelicals will soon have their own version of Viagra. I can see the ad now, there will be talk of the wives "laying on of hands", then a Dobson style character will say "HEAL!" A bright light will shine through the bedroom window and a man will get a huge grin on his face. The product will be called Lazarus and the tag line will be "bringing the dead back to life!"
Of course, I could just be imagining a future MAD TV or SNL faux commercial.
Posted by: Robert Rouse | June 26, 2008 08:59 AM
I have to second the score one for dcup. Heh, heh, I said score, heh heh.
All these dick meds get covered without question, but the flip side? Yeah, right.
Men = studs.
Women = whores.
Left or right, rich or poor, educated or not, this is unfortunately the prevailing attitude among much of the world.
Posted by: Randal Graves | June 26, 2008 11:05 AM
Yhep the longer you live the more screwed up it gets. All the screwed up crap they advertise should be outlawed on TV and only allowed on the internet where you can look it up if you need to. I am sick of those stupid commercials and weight loss with the 2 pounds of spackle stuck on your colon wall. AAARRGGGHHH!
Posted by: Jim | June 26, 2008 11:31 AM
It's obvious that their "principles" are really subjective assessments about what they do or don't like -- which they then generalize and project onto Society.
Someone else's sexual actions or rights? EVIL! Their own sexual actions or rights? FREEDOM!
Fundamentally, too many people in power are self-centered, egocentric neurotics.
Posted by: Cathexis | June 26, 2008 12:22 PM
I would imagine a lot of the people who complain about athletes taking performance-enhancing drugs are the same ones taking the "male enhancement" drugs. Sure, there isn't a National Sex League (now THERE's an idea!) but I say a performance enhancer is a performance enhancer.
I loathe the Viagra commercial with all the limp-dicked guys having their jubilant jam session because they can now get it on again thanks to the little blue pill. I want to deck the harmonica-playing guy with the bandana, just because. I also loathe the Enzyte commercial where Smilin' Bob is Santa and all the beautiful young women just can't wait to sit in his lap... And no, it isn't because I'm jealous.
I agree that there is no outrage over these commercials, because our society seems to be geared around men and around the idea that... well... men need to have sex, dammit. That even includes fundamentalist Christian men like James Dobson and Pat Robertson, although I can't imagine that very many women would want to hop into the sack with one of those guys. But hey, God gave them their little pleasure tools, and when the tools wear out, God has now given them little pills to take to make the equipment work again, even if temporarily. Gee, thanks Science!
And OF COURSE they don't give a rat's ass about whether their partners have pleasure or not. The fact that they can still get their rocks off, and not whether they can actually connect with another human being, is probably how they measure their manhood.
How did America get so sexually screwed up?
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Posted by: Snave | June 26, 2008 10:45 PM