OK call me a prude, but am I alone?

I must be a prude too , I find these ads very cringe making

And I watch tv alone !

Not a problem for either of us, we’re both all for openness and honesty, I’m pleased to see red on sanitary towels, people sitting in the toilet and so on.
More problems are caused, to everyone, but in particular youngsters by misinformation and anything that avoids discussion with others, specifically parents.

Exactly, Jaxjacky - why do people get so hung up about natural bodily functions, which affect every single one of us (or in the case of menstruating, roughly half the population). The more openness, the better. How many in previous generations were never told a single thing about periods, for instance - and then panicked when they suddenly started bleeding?

I not a fan of any explicit adverts using sex to sell some unrelated product or lingering on personal bodily functions. But like a previous poster, the adverts I really want to see banned are those jolly ones encouraging people to gamble, and normalising the whole online gambling industry, which must be so hard on those with addiction issues trying to resist the urge.

I don’t think you’re a prude MawtheMerrier or anyone else that thinks the same, just sensible really.
We’ve got used to anything goes in ads but when you stop and think about it some ads are cringeworthy.
I try and record all I can and whizz through the ads at top speed.

JaneJudge

bizarrely someone gave me some viagra towels and they are still going strong years later

Obviously they have staying power! And the ability to keep up!

Haha Glorianny 😄 those towels may be on the hard side as well😖

Exactly the same Maggiemaybe. Adverts about gambling should be totally BANNED.

Generally, there are some pretty horrible adverts. I want the advert to make me feel good if I buy the product not make me want to run a mile which some of the more 'in your face' ones do.

I thought the Viagra advert before the Rugby was too early in the day. If it had been last week I would have had to explain to a 9-year-old GD like I had the man with a towel done his boxers as she put it. Incontinence or sexual dysfunction are subjects I don't want to discuss with a 9-year-old. If her parents do well that's their choice.

Adverts are quite simply information. People need information to know what products are available, children will switch off to what is of no interest to them maybe we should do the same ….

I have 2 granddaughter's age 12 and 10. They only every watch YouTube or Netflix at their house. No adverts on either , they do both seem much more aware of sex and relationships than I ever did at their ages , I'm 58

Blondiescot

1. Would you be saying the same if the kiss had been between a man and a woman?
2. So? If they had asked questions, I'd have answered them as honestly (and age-appropriately) as I could. That was the approach I always took when my children were younger.

My husband and daughter were looking at birthday cards when she was very young but able to read. “What’s a condom dad” she asked, he answered ,”A contraceptive”. She only expected an answer to her question.

Granmarderby10

mmm…not too sure that there is a need to show that menstrual blood is red and not blue but imagine if toilet paper was advertised this way because it is also a totally natural bodily function* !! Know what I mean.😐

ha ha,, I know what you mean. who wants to see brown on loo rolls

Adverts are quite simply information.

Silly me, I thought they were about encouraging you to buy something.

Adverts are simply information. are they?
.On how to eat rubbish, gamble all your money away and go on Jet two holidays where you drop your Icecream. The information they can keep to themselves.

I'm still wondering about the link between a lesbian kiss and an electric car. I would have thought the important selling point would be where you could get the thing charged.

The ads I would ban would be the gambling ones. A little footnote about betting sensibly and where to get help really isn't going to stop people becoming addicted.

I didn’t realise that people actually sat and watched the ads!

I would have been embarrassed Maw if I had been with my DGSs. No doubt I would have been busy playing scrabble on my IPad until the ads were over.

To pass the time in the ad breaks we used to play guess the ad’s with our kids. It was always a popular game. 😁. Those were the days when there were only three ad’s nowadays we could be playing for hours 🙄

Don’t know why I’m being slated for stating a fact. What people do with information is up to them. However tantalising it is of course that’s the name of the game.
However if it’s not there how would we know what was available. The constant drip of tv and magazine advertising if you are allowed to be in constant view is going influence if you allow it. But we would all soon complain if uninformed also.

If they ask, you explain. No issues for me

In our adult family of five children, two of our daughters are lenient both in relationships with other lovely girls - our 8 year old grandchild is well aware as the couple next door to his house are a lesbian couple with two lovely sons with whom he plays and attends dance school with. Find your comments, though probably quite innocent, quite homophobic !! As for the viagra, sex is very normal and it doesn’t bother me at all ! 😊😊

I'm not keen on the advert to do with periods - the victorian scene going on about a " bloody mess down there"