Well, it's got to be a lot cheaper than a TV ad campaign, and probably provides a better boost to sales...
Oz couple get jiggy in pharmacy in 'banned' condom ad
Oz prophylactic outfit Four Seasons Condoms is enjoying a runaway viral marketing success with a "banned" advert for its Naked Condoms deemed unfit for Downunder TV. The firm teamed up with comedian Gary Eck to produce a series of "spots" featuring the escapades of "Raquel and Tyson", and intended to "create a campaign aimed …
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Wednesday 11th December 2013 06:37 GMT John Tserkezis
Funny that..
Why is it that the only ads worth watching are distributed on Youtube only?. A far cry from the feeble attempts that do actually air, they're not even trying.
Pretty much expains why I haven't watched live TV, or TV ads, for well in excess of a decade, and have no plans to change.
Now, if you'll excuse me, I have to buy some condoms. Though, I'll test them at home...
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Wednesday 11th December 2013 06:54 GMT raving angry loony
Australia's CAD (Commercials Advice) - which classifies ads for TV broadcast - "knocked it [the spot] back asking for the removal of all sexual references"
I like that. I guess the Puritans (wait, I thought they all went to the Americas? Were some transported to Australia?) who staff this pile of puerile shite department don't want condom commercials at all then? Which makes sense - the kind of people who staff these things (or worse, make the asinine rules they follow) would probably have been better off caught in a condom tip, not eventually growing up into who they became.
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Wednesday 11th December 2013 09:28 GMT Dramoth
"Have they ever shown a movie that included any scenes of the beast with two heads? It would seem rather contradictory if they had!"
Are we talking about documentaries about Tasmanians having sexual relations?
Man... some of my fellow Australians are rather uptight and could use a good shag... especially those muppets in CAD... after a couple of nice relaxing beers.
Cheers
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Wednesday 11th December 2013 18:20 GMT Vladimir Plouzhnikov
Re: Pathetic
@Magnus_Pym
"You see this ad carries a serious message, a commercial interest and a comedy element. That part is the comedy element."
Yeah, I see that. The trouble is they've used a wrong joke - "if you buy this rubber your GF would rather be on the phone to her ma..." Own goal!
@Khaptain
"And just what do you think that your girlfriend or wife is actually thinking about whilst you are "nuptualising"...."
What a woman is really thinking? How would I (or anyone) know??? All I can say - I never saw her calling the in-laws or heard her discussing shopping during the process.
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Wednesday 11th December 2013 10:16 GMT Rampant Spaniel
Re: Who would want to ask for a 'Small'?
True, there was an article by the BBC on their news site about that. Every so often a group of individuals would deliberately read it to get it on the most read section on the front page. They most have orchestrated quite a campaign as it 'popped up' quite often.
There is some modest variation between some ethnicities and therefore to a slightly lesser degree by location (due to increased mobility) . The actual amount isn't that much. I would also question the sample size as to eliminate all the possible variables you would have to do a lot of measuring !
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Wednesday 11th December 2013 10:37 GMT Khaptain
Re: Who would want to ask for a 'Small'?
My sporrans made from beaver, it keeps it nice and dry..... Just don't ask what kind of beaver.....
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Wednesday 11th December 2013 12:40 GMT Wyrdness
Re: Who would want to ask for a 'Small'?
On holiday in the channel islands one year, girlfriend and I realised that we hadn't packed any condoms. So we went into Boots to buy some. There was a cute girl, possibly late teens/early 20's, behind the counter. I looked at the large selection of condoms on display and exclaimed, "Damn, they haven't got any in extra small!". It made her laugh.
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Tuesday 17th December 2013 19:15 GMT Anonymous Coward
Re: Who would want to ask for a 'Small'?
LOL!
I did have a thought, apparently according to an a science paper sperms don't like voltages.
Seems that a small ring shaped device using a weak electric currentmight be a very, *very* effective way to neutralise them on the fly, and also prevent some STDs.
More research needed!
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Wednesday 11th December 2013 19:29 GMT Kevin Johnston
Re: If you want condoms that fit you...
It is a matter of great pride that when my wife was working as a sexual health nurse she managed to get me a mouse mat from Pasanta (?) which had pictures of their condom range with sizes.....went down a storm at work but I had to take it back home or else risk getting it knicked
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Wednesday 11th December 2013 10:41 GMT Khaptain
Penis Head
Several years ago, Great Britain funded a study to determine why the head on a mans’ penis is larger than the shaft.
The study took two years and cost over $1.2 million.
The study concluded that the reason the head of a man’s penis is larger than the shaft was to provide the man with more pleasure during sex.
After the results were published, France decided to conduct their own study on the same subject.
They were convinced that the results of the British study was incorrect.
After three years of research at a cost of in excess of $2 million, the French researchers concluded that the head of a man’s penis is larger than the shaft to provide the woman with more pleasure during sex.
When the results of the French study were released, Australia decided to conduct their own study.
The Aussies didnt really trust British or French studies.
So, after nearly three hours of intensive research and a cost of right around $75.00 ( 3 cases of beer), the Aussie study was complete.
They concluded that the reason the head on a man’s penis is larger than the shaft is to prevent your hand from flying off and hitting you in the forehead
[Joke hopelessly ripped from here]
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Wednesday 11th December 2013 23:45 GMT Crazy Operations Guy
Re: Penis Head
I don't remember which scientific journal it was, but there was a study done about that where they found the shape of the penis is meant to pump sexual rivals' semen from the vagina. It was also conjectured that men get tired after sex in order to prevent pumping out one's own semen.
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Friday 13th December 2013 10:46 GMT Anonymous Coward
Re: Penis Head
I don't remember which scientific journal it was, but there was a study done about that where they found the shape of the penis is meant to pump sexual rivals' semen from the vagina.
I seem to recall on a nature program (probably one of the David Attenborough ones) a sequence about a type of fox mating with the comment that during the mating the male foxe's penis expanded to a size that prevented it from disengaging from the female for several minutes with the explanation that this was an evolutionary feature to ensure to prevent any other male from being able to mate with the same female during that time to so that the first male fox's sperm was more likely to inseminate the female.
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Thursday 12th December 2013 08:55 GMT Blofeld's Cat
Bleaugh...
Sir,
I must object to the idea, expressed in your article, that anyone would wish to "... make buying condoms like buying a pair of shoes ...".
The memsahib already has countless pairs of shoes lying unused in her wardrobe waiting for a "suitable occasion", and I can only assume she would apply the same logic to the condoms.
I remain Sir,
Colonel Buckfast-Guzzler (retired)
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Tuesday 17th December 2013 12:55 GMT Amorous Cowherder
Can we just grow up now?
I'll never understand this sort of thing from these moral minority types. Perhaps if we were a little more open and sensible about sex, instead of the "giggling behind the bike sheds" innuendo, then maybe we wouldn't have huge rates of teenage pregnancy and STDs. Teach kids it's bloody good fun, this is how it works, get informed and stay safe. Instead we have to have this sort thing, where condoms have be sniggered at like it's something naughty and slightly dirty, adverts have to be viral 'cos we can't have that sort of thing on TV that granny might be watching.
People have sex, deal with it! Old people, young people, disabled people, black, white, asian, hispanic, Jewish, Catholic, wearing, leather, plastic, silk, satin, men and women doing something enjoyable involving the less hygenic areas of the human body! Rejoice and enjoy, there moral minority stop acting like it's only people behaving like rutting animals that have sex.