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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsI'm I the only woman that has had it up to here with Viagra and Cialis ads????
In the past, whatever. Annoying - yes.
Embarrassed when a 6 year old asked me what erectile dysfunction is - yes.
But no more embarrassing than when my own daughter asked me what a blow job was when Pres Clinton was being impeached and the term blow job was in bold print daily on the front page of the paper....
I am not a prude and would have happily continued to roll my eyes whenever laundry was interrupted for sex on tv,
In fact I always wonder why that woman doesn't tell her husband that she will be happy to screw his brains out AFTER he helps her with the laundry.
But that was then.
This is now.
Now women's healthcare is under attack. Yes, the majority of women use birth control for just that, but as we all know, the pill is also used for many other reasons. And a pre-qualifier for getting the pill is a pap smear and a breast exam. Wow - protecting women's health... how horrid!!!
ED medicine is used for nothing other than sex.
Women's healthcare is not okay but men's erections are?
I am sick of the double standard. Especially when that crap came out of Rush's mouth - Rush - a man that was caught with someone else's Viagra. http://www.talkleft.com/story/2006/06/27/329/18723 Never in my life did I want to hear the name Rush Limbaugh and viagra used in the same sentence. But I survived. No more.
Leave our healthcare alone and I will shut up about your erections, or lack there of. But until then - keep your sexual inadequacies to yourself - I don't want to hear about it on my tv! And dammit - help her with the laundry.
end of rant
Cleita
(75,480 posts)specific print media that hopefully won't get into the hands of children, like in men's magazines. Letting them on mainstream TV and radio isn't right.
abelenkpe
(9,933 posts)kinda sick of all the commercials pimping medications though.
Autumn
(45,120 posts)I want videos!!!!!!! If I have to pay for it, I should get something in return.
Sorry I was watching too much TV
shcrane71
(1,721 posts)Remember when Bob Dole did a commercial for an E.D. drug?
meow2u3
(24,766 posts)to be able to see the money shot.
Voice for Peace
(13,141 posts)seriously.. nobody wants to see that.
jillan
(39,451 posts)tsuki
(11,994 posts)Just what I want to watch are videos of old, fat white guys that have to arouse their limp dicks with chemicals.
Rush, you're first.
Demonaut
(8,923 posts)just kidding, they do make me want a claw foot tub though
jillan
(39,451 posts)Saying something about how can they have sex if they are in two different bathtubs.
Johonny
(20,869 posts)I wouldn't need those pills
Skittles
(153,171 posts)TexasProgresive
(12,157 posts)Please take that as sarcasm.
jillan
(39,451 posts)Battery Operated Boyfriend.
kestrel91316
(51,666 posts)No double standard here at all.
Voice for Peace
(13,141 posts)So that when that "special moment" happens, your mister is ready:
[cut to special moments]
in a car with a hooker
at a prayer conference
with a gay prostitute
with the secretary
etc
jillan
(39,451 posts)is away on national business....
we could go on and on
Voice for Peace
(13,141 posts)Walk away
(9,494 posts)Odin2005
(53,521 posts)Never mind the fact that most men with "ED" get morning wood, so the problem is not between their legs.
iscooterliberally
(2,861 posts)The disclaimers are frightening.
jillan
(39,451 posts)It's ridiculous.
TBF
(32,083 posts)if it were men getting pregnant all of the healthcare (including abortions) would be covered by insurance 100%. They have to be in control at all times.
Equal Rights Amendment? Still not passed. It's ridiculous.
NRaleighLiberal
(60,017 posts)miyazaki
(2,247 posts)godamn predators.
marlakay
(11,481 posts)But yuck...that's what my mute button is for.
seabeyond
(110,159 posts)boys watched at 8, 10 yrs old and older, saying how a man was not good enough to satisfy a woman, without a drug.
i hate them that they are continually telling hubby as they get older, the need for a drug, lol. it plays on the male psychic the same as commercials do on the females.... i hate them.
and, i dont watch much tv. so hubby turns it on and the music always pulls me from book. i am watching, waiting to see what it is and inevitably it is one of those damn commercials.
Broderick
(4,578 posts)God I hate that guy!
LMAO
seabeyond
(110,159 posts)what am i whistling. oh, fuck... when they told me.
bob in the elevator fucking the blonde going down and then fucking the brunette going back up. hated that one, too. two young sons watching.
Broderick
(4,578 posts)Wanted to wipe that smile off his face. One of those girls was interesting though. I like naughty. Don't know why. But that Bob guy can kiss my ass.
nolabear
(41,990 posts)I wonder if men can be made to appreciate how badly this war on reproductive health harms them too. They've been able to ignore it for so long, to leave it up to women and to just walk away and assume it's none of their business.
WhoIsNumberNone
(7,875 posts)I find it especially ironic, that after the right wing outrage at Janet Jackson's 'wardrobe malfunction' they have nothing to say about the Viagra/Cialis ads in every commercial break of every football game.
Picture this scene: "Daddy- What's a four hour erection?"
malaise
(269,117 posts)You are not alone
hedgehog
(36,286 posts)The Pill has this image of enabling orgies when my guess is most contraception is used by married folk to limit the size of their bedrooms without resorting to separate bedrooms. In fact, i wonder if a lot of married men used to patronize prostitutes as a method of limiting their family size. If that's the case, the Pill has really settled things down!
The ED drugs are marketed to older men having physical problems. There are relatively young men in their 50's who because of diabetes or prostate cancer or whatever need some assistance in this area. In fact, these drugs are prescribed as penile therapy post surgery to get things working again ASAP, "use it or lose it".
So we aren't talking drooling geezers trying to satisfy trophy wives. Once again, it's a lot of boring married people using medicine as an aid to their sexual lives.
However - there are a lot of guys (and I have no idea what the ratio would be) who use the ED drugs to engage in what an outside observer might call excessive sexual activity. So, the women who are using the Pill for "respectable"purposes have to pay out of pocket, while the horn dogs are getting a free ride!
Broderick
(4,578 posts)Freshness ads geared towards women. In between that, every pill to fix cholesterol, lose weight, be buff and/or make one happy.
Sigh. I guess advertising works one way or another. More is spent by big pharma in marketing, by many folds, than is spent on R and D.
Blue_In_AK
(46,436 posts)Did Levitra go bankrupt or something?
HappyMe
(20,277 posts)The remedies make the sickness sound like a walk in the park.
Recursion
(56,582 posts)But those ads are really annoying.
Ilsa
(61,695 posts)Raine
(30,540 posts)especially now!
Rhiannon12866
(205,731 posts)I wasn't sure I was in their demographic.
BlueIris
(29,135 posts)Keep that shit to yourselves, Pharma Pigs. I don't need to hear about it when I'm trying to type, snack or fold laundry.
Bigmack
(8,020 posts).... he is too dumb to have sex. He'll do it wrong.
If there is a man with ED who doesn't know the boner pills exist, he's already dead... and not just his Johnson.
I can't imagine why they are still advertised.
Pharma is just wasting their money. Oh... wait... it's OUR money, isn't it. They just add the cost of advertising to their products.
Jack Sprat
(2,500 posts)MrSlayer
(22,143 posts)Why are we allowing conservative ignorance on birth control foment progressive ignorance on ED pills?
Viagra and the like are necessary for men who have medical conditions such as diabetes, prostate cancer, low blood pressure and so on. Men, especially young men, losing their virility for whatever reason can be devastating. It can cause all kinds of mental problems including depression, loss of self-esteem and feelings of worthlessness and can cause some men to become suicidal. And the loss of intimacy also damages their partners and their quality of life as well.
Just as birth control pills are not used simply so women can go around fucking at will without consequence, ED pills are not simply for old men to use for recreation. A lot of people really need them and making fun of their condition doesn't sit well with me on a progressive website.
Because they are idiots doen't mean we should be idiots too.
All of these drugs should be covered for everyone, period.
downwardly_mobile
(137 posts)I'm sorry, but "ED" -- a euphemism in acronym -- is made-up marketing bullshit.
There's a perfectly good, longstanding English word for the condition: it's called IMPOTENCE.
MrSlayer
(22,143 posts)Substitute if you like, I believe the point is is there regardless of word choice. We shouldn't be ripping people with valid medical issues. That's what the other side does.
pokerfan
(27,677 posts)Reminds me Carlin's routine on the evolution of the language describing a variety of psychological traumas due to war:
Shell Shock => Battle Fatigue => Operational Exhaustion => Post Tramatic Stress Disorder
I wish George were still with us because I can see it now:
Limp Dick => Impotence =>Performance Concerns => Erectile Dysfunction => Involuntary Flaccidity => Ascension Deficit Disorder
Ascension Deficit Disorder
Initech
(100,095 posts)I like Beavis & Butthead a few weeks ago:
"Ask your doctor if Levitan is right for you."
"Levitan may cause dizziness, confusion, dizziness, vomiting..."
"And a boner that goes on for four hours!"
"That would be cool."
appleannie1
(5,068 posts)the one's I like least. And being a woman, the fact that insurance does not cover birth control in many instances but does cover Viagra and has since day one is total bull crap. So, rant away. I will rant with you. It goes way beyond double standards. The first time I took those little pills, I was 11 years old, had no idea what sex was, but my body said I was a lady. Only it was not working the way it should. Of course, in those days they were not used for contraception, just for hormone disfunctions that needed to be corrected. I took them for a year. I realized what they were when I was married and did not want another pregnancy and went to the doctor requesting BC pills. Lo and behold they were the same pills I took at age 11. In those days they only cost a couple dollars. But I understand that today they cost a heck of a lot more. My cure for what is going on in Congress today is all women need to go on strike. They are claiming that the only reason one should have sex is to procreate. Well women need to hold them to that. They need to stand firm in the bedroom and say "I don't want any more children. Here is your pillow and a blanket and there is the door. The couch is in the living room". It would be amazing how fast that double standard would even out.
marasinghe
(1,253 posts)warning: may cause a bit of nausea - either from subject matter, or from excessive laughter.
Jason Jones in FL:
http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/mon-january-10-2011/dirty-bird-special