This one is, of course, French. It promotes condoms as being conducive to physical pleasure.
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This one is, of course, French. It promotes condoms as being conducive to physical pleasure.
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Sex with a condom is as pleasurable as washing a cat? I don’t get it.
June 27, 2007 @ 12:02 pm
You make me laugh, Alice! No, I think the point is that sex with this brand of condom is quite pleasurable. And the kid is using his parents’ pleasure to his advantage by asking permission to do outrageous things at opportune moments.
June 27, 2007 @ 12:07 pm
I think Alice’s point was that she didn’t find the idea of putting the cat in the washing machine funny. I agree – I’m uncomfortable with this one and many of the images (including the idea of promoting in the US the idea that the French are so focused on sexual pleasure that they don’t parent adequately).
June 27, 2007 @ 3:29 pm
Hmm, that’s a good point, Dorian. I hadn’t thought of those perspectives.
June 27, 2007 @ 3:40 pm
Although, for a fact, I don’t find the idea of putting a cat in the washing machine funny, I was mostly just confused. I didn’t get that the parents were busy having sex while the kid was going wild. I didn’t get the point of the commercial at all. Must be my own cultural ignorance. 🙂
I don’t think most Americans spend much time thinking about French parenting.
June 28, 2007 @ 1:05 am
I think don’t really think this should be seen as a statement on animal cruelty or French parenting. It’s just a condom ad, and one I found very funny.
July 2, 2007 @ 4:44 am