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Representative Jim Moran (D-VA) has seen them … and you’d be hard pressed to see a smile on his face when he talks about the ads.
“A number of people,” he says, “have come up, including colleagues, and said I’m fed up. I don’t want my three or four-year old grandkid asking me what erectile dysfunction is all about. And I don’t blame them.”
Enter H.R. 2175. That’s a bill that Rep. Moran introduced last month that would prohibit any ED ads from airing on broadcast radio and TV between 6AM and 10PM….
CNN asked Pfizer, which makes Viagra, the first pill available by prescription to treat ED, what they thought of Rep. Moran’s bill.
“Pfizer is committed to responsible advertising… In line with our policies and the policies of the industry, Viagra advertising is aired in shows most likely to reach men suffering from erectile dysfunction. ED can be a signal for other serious medical issues, including high blood pressure, diabetes and cardiovascular disease”….
Rep. Moran [says,] “It is an intrusion into the quality of life that we like to experience…. You know enough is enough. This is inappropriate.”
It sounds like some people need some training in answering kids’ questions. They’re going to ask them. Hiding under a rock won’t help. You give them an answer “appropriate” for their age and understanding. At an early age, that answer can be very general and non-specific, like if a four-year-old asked, “What’s a spleen?”
Thanks, K B
Daddy is mom screwing the guy next door because the you have erectile dysfunction like the nice men on the TV. Can I go and see their hard ons for my self, huh, can I daddy?
I always thought you were making a reference to some long ago joke about this guy when you say ‘moran.’
# 3 Eric said,
I think they need to be banned because they promote the idea of old guys with 2nd or 3rd wives young enough to be their daughters to be the norm.
Boomers, face it, you’re old. Get over it and start a woodworking hobby.
That’s the problem, Boomers are trying to ‘work their wood’….
J/P=?
A friend’s young boys love to sing the “Viva Viagra” song that they hear so much on sports programming. Kinda cute. I find it interesting that liquor ads are becoming more common on TV–they were never on (and maybe they still aren’t on over-the-air)? What a bunch of fraidy cats we’ve become–oh! someone might be offended! Heading back to the 50s, kids–nothing that might offend sensibilities or require some self control. What’s next, beer? Say goodbye to sports programming. RIP George Carlin.
Let’s get rid of those Tampax commercials too. Don’t you just love it when they go into every gory detail about why they work better. If hemorrhoid commercials were half as detailed, we’d all be puking.
#13 – LMAO!
Moran should never have changed the second o in his name to an a.
I’d be willing to wager that 90% of people who use Viagra don’t even have ED. The drug companies know it has become a recreational drug and huge profit center. I have had doctors offer me “free samples” unsolicited.
What is with everyone here wanting to ban all drug ads?
An argument can be made that drug ads have helped people get treatment for conditions they otherwise would never think were problems. Things like acid reflux, restless leg syndrome, depression, etc.
These are real problems that some people would just go on living with, because they didn’t think it was abnormal.
We’re all adults. I don’t really care if you run out and demand a drug for a condition you don’t have.
#14–Scott==are we so pro-business/anti Public that we will remove SUGAR as the drug of choice foisted on our little kiddies?
I don’t watch much kiddie tv, but I do assume more than just sugar gets advertised. “Viva Viagra” was a crackup above.
Heres a quibble: ads promoting drugs is not analogous to yelling fire (when there is no fire) in a crowded theater. It is more like “setting fire” in the theater, and then yelling it is a good thing.
Hey Eric, if you want to get women just drink cheap American beer like Dud or Miner.
I was getting three magazines in the mail. All of a sudden each one had boner ads, full page in one and the other two had a bunch of those small ones in the back. I really liked my classic truck mag so I wrote an email. Crap I got a reply back telling me how lame I was and how much money the make a boner people were paying. I scanned that full page ad, changed all the testimony names to people from the magazine, even photoshopped the editor picture into the add with the gal on his lap. Googled the crap out of it with keywords and got another ehatemail. They no longer run the boner ads. The price has gone up a bit but I’d rather pay than see limps
They just need a new term for it.
Erectile Dysfunction is too blatant. Boner Syndrome or Little Johnston Complex might work better. Dick’s Disease is a little harsh, but Willie Wonkitis might be fun.
It’s all in how you label it.
It’s sexual abuse of children. There’s no “age appropriate” explanation needed for kids about ED.
RBG
It’s a good thing all my grandparents (and for that matter, my parents) are dead: they’d all have strokes and die anyway if they saw some of the stuff on TV these days.
Almost as bad as the “ARE YOU A LIMP-DICK? DO YOU HAVE A CHILLY WILLY? ARE YOU (echo on) LESS THAN A MAN?” ads are the ones with Andrea Martin (SCTV, My Big Fat Greek Wedding, Kim Possible) sounding just SO HAPPY to be telling you about the horrible things this new drug might do to you, but how HAPPY you’ll be. The drug I’m most afraid of is the one that makes her sound like that!
It’s no wonder more and more people are going online instead of turning on the TV. Yay, Hulu!
“It’s a good thing all my grandparents (and for that matter, my parents) are dead: they’d all have strokes and die anyway if they saw some of the stuff on TV these days.”
Bullshit. They’d be like, ‘give me some of those dick pills!’
You know it – they liked to hump.
I say dump all drug advertising. If drug companies need to sell more drugs, they can do it the old fashioned way, bribe the Doctors.
And please, get rid of those , ahem, “Male Enhancement” scams and “Girls Gone Wild” videos. Nothing makes me turn off the TV late at night more than those ads do.
Send him a free script and he will shut up.
I completely agree with the congressman. I think that it’s disgusting that it was ever on in the first place. Even if they don’t ban it completely they should at least make it so it is only shown at a time when under 18′s are less likly to be watching / listening.