OK call me a prude, but am I alone?

I didn't see the advert but I agree with Maw about the content. Personally I wouldn't have been embarrassed at explaining, in an age appropriate way, about a lesbian kiss. As several others have commented it's a part of life nowadays. However, with younger children the viagra advert might have proved more difficult. I think adverts should be more carefully monitored and transmitted at times more relevant to their content.

Oreo

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

This made me laugh, but am I the only one who doesn’t know what ‘viagra towels’ are? Or am I missing another joke?

The mind boggles! I bet some of those applauding these ads might think again.

The French song 'Je'taime' came out in 1970 when I was in a car with boyfriend, mum, dad and grandma. I was sòooo embarrassed. So nothing changes really.I've

Lesbian kiss is just a kiss with a word added that needn't be,like GAY marriage surely its time we lost the gay out of that too.I had an aunt who was lesbian ,not a word we heard but we knew she had lady friends or what my granny called her funny women.Apart from that no one blinked an eye about her sexual preferences.
Just as well as I have a cousin and a neice who are also lesbian and several children of cousins who are gay or gender neutral and a couple of trans who were born girls but are now men .
Aren't we all just Jock Tamsons BairnsMaw isn't it better children accept people for who they are ?

I've realised nothing really changes.

‘Je’taime’ was banned, wasn’t it, which made it all the more interesting.

I was quite innocent back then, (still am, I suppose) and wondered what Jane Birkin could possibly see in Serge Gainsbourg to induce such vocal devotion!

When I was a bit older, I got it!

It's not shameful it's good manners ,I also dislike seeing people on TV sitting on the loo pants down

Viagra, sanitary towels! Incontinence pads, all poor quality! Who watches ads anyway! It’s tea making time

I don’t have a problem with same sex kissing. It’s life and the more it’s part of normal life , it’s accepted. Young people are much more accepting of same sex relationships , same with mixed race relationships. As for being before the watershed? Why not ?
The viagra ad ? Sex education is taught At primary school . And teenagers getting embarrassed by sex on tv when watching with patents is nothing new . I remember the same when I was young.
So yes YABU

You are not a prude you are entitled to your opinion. Adverts in general are getting on my nerves lately some so bizarre it’s hard to know what’s being advertised.
I was in my sons house with the GC watching tv while they were playing. A preview (not an advert) came on about a forthcoming show being aired a certain time. My GD who is six asked why men were dressed as women I said it’s what some people like to do. Her response was well they look ridiculous like clowns.

I think you are being totally unreasonable especially regarding the kiss. Why haven't you said anything about all the men and women that kiss each other day in day out on ads and in TV shows including some kids shows? I'm sorry but your comment says more about you than those who schedule the advertising

Agreed, we are all entitled to our opinion, but having always felt that a sexual relationship is a private happiness, between two consenting people, I don't find a need to watch very passionate kissing or sexual gymnastics, and neither do I enjoy ads for sanitary products or viagra. They don't upset me, but they are part of that privacy. Bodily functions are not 'dirty' or cringe making, but I don't want to demonstrate these things publicly because I don't see the need. Another prude I suppose.

You’re not alone, Maw, I feel exactly the same as you. Maybe these adverts do go over childrens’ heads, but I’d rather they weren’t shown at that time of day. Sorry - call me old fashioned, but that’s how I feel.

"My GD who is six asked why men were dressed as women I said it’s what some people like to do. Her response was well they look ridiculous like clowns."

That reaction is worrisome.

Everybody has the right to wear what they want

I’m certainly no prude, but I find I can’t get my head around this modern day approach of ‘anything goes’. Next it’ll be ok to watch a man standing there peeing, full frontal, whilst talking about his prostate problems. Or worse still someone showing us what their healthy poo looks like. Why does everything have to be so graphic and out there? Google offers us the perfect opportunity to research such things for ourselves and in private too.😉.

I'm sure this subject matter on here has caused more discussion than the adverts themselves will have created.

Hithere

I applaud showing red liquid vs blue for period ads

It is about time a very normal biological fact is normalized and accepted as non shameful

Agreed, and it is being unreasonable. whats wrong with a same sex kiss?

I think the viagra one will fly over the younger ones heads and the older ones know very well. Its so vague its hilarious.

Hithere

I applaud showing red liquid vs blue for period ads

It is about time a very normal biological fact is normalized and accepted as non shameful

You may applaud it, but it is not very realistic.

A smiley woman in full makeup on the loo with her size 10 jeans round her ankles pouring what looks like neat Campari onto a paper thin sanitary towel.

This does not normalise periods.
It is more likely to make young women worry as to why this is not their experience
I once heard a young man tell his pal "I don't know why "they" make such a fuss, I've had worse injuries playing Tetra"..
Meg.

No, I don’t think you’re being unreasonable Maw -sorry if that makes me a prude. No, actually I’m not sorry, that’s my opinion.

Why are people so embarrassed about normal body functions?
Yes we see the woman sitting on the loo reaching for the pee pads, but so what?

I imagine that one for a man would be equally discreet.

Its a chance to say to a younger person about some changes that happen when you are older - nothing to be ashamed of and it might help a great deal of people to normalise it and take it out of the "never speak about it" shame.

Man and woman, two men, two women, I don't care but I don't want to see close-ups of them them investigating what each other had for breakfast, lunch and dinner. Anyone remember Peak Practice in which Kevin Whately and Amanda Burton were having an affair? I had to turn away when his tongue was probing halfway down her throat 😝. I was amazed she didn't gag or throw up. Maybe she did off camera....

Totally agree. Also those explicit ads for incontinence pads and period pants etc. Not necessary to show “blood” or body fluids. It likely traumatises some young girls and boys for that matter.

They’ll be showing toilet roll with poo on it next.

In terms of gender and what children might see, we have a gay couple on Strictly and a trans woman (obvious) on Dancing on Ice. It's out there anyway.

Theperson on Dancing on Ice isn't trans, just a cross dresser/drag queen .Men have been cross dressing for centuries and yse I do know one man who likes to cross dress and do full makeup.He's a perfectly nice respectable man and he's harming no one !