I don't know if ED is huge plague among men these days, or if it is just the TV programing I watch, however in two hours of viewing, I see no less than a half dozen ED product advertisements. The ad's are extremely frequent on satellite provided television networks.
I have no children, however am somewhat concerned how parents must be handling or are being forced to answer uncomfortable questions that must be being presented by their young children that are old enough to be inquisitive about the advertisements, but are still too young to have been fully educated about human sexuality. (I'm thinking 6 to 8 year olds).
It seems to me that these advertisements are sort of forcing the issue to be discussed with children (or lied about) rather than having the subject of human sexuality being addressed at a point in time of the parents discression, and hence, maybe should be curtailed??
Comments?

I don't know if ED is huge plague among men these days, or if it is just the TV programing I watch, however in two hours of viewing, I see no less than a half dozen ED product advertisements. The ad's are extremely frequent on satellite provided television networks.
I have no children, however am somewhat concerned how parents must be handling or are being forced to answer uncomfortable questions that must be being presented by their young children that are old enough to be inquisitive about the advertisements, but are still too young to have been fully educated about human sexuality. (I'm thinking 6 to 8 year olds).
It seems to me that these advertisements are sort of forcing the issue to be discussed with children (or lied about) rather than having the subject of human sexuality being addressed at a point in time of the parents discression, and hence, maybe should be curtailed??
Comments?


I don't imagine that it is much different than having to explain to Junior what "K-Y Warming Sensation Personal Lubricant" is all about, or what is being hawked on the various tampoon, birth control pill, and feminine deoderant ads, or Gold Bond powder ads where the old guy states that it "took care of The Male itch".

"ED" seems to be a relatively new term though, I always thought it was called "LD".  ;)

I don't imagine that it is much different than having to explain to Junior what "K-Y Warming Sensation Personal Lubricant" is all about, or what is being hawked on the various tampoon, birth control pill, and feminine deoderant ads, or Gold Bond powder ads where the old guy states that it "took care of The Male itch".

"ED" seems to be a relatively new term though, I always thought it was called "LD".  ;)


I think it is still called "Brewer's Droop"

I think it is still called "Brewer's Droop"


A-ha!  "BD"

;)

I think it is still called "Brewer's Droop"


Yes my friend, alcohol can be a factor. Never realised by myself though, of course!! (mind willing, body unable syndrome!!)

Look, if you're freaked out about explaining ED to your kid, then DOOOON'T!

"Dad, what's erectile dysfunction?"
"You'll find out soon enough, son.  Now go finish your chores."

"You'll probably find out too, Suzie.  Ask your mother about 'prenuptial agreements.'"

:P

I think it's too much...

I can't count the number of times those 'Bob' commercials have come on while my daughter has been watching something...and I've somehow managed to avoid telling her what they're really about!  :P

She's always saying 'he's so weird' and stuff like that!

One thing that really bothers me is that that commercial seems to come on louder than any others!  ::) 

I can't count the number of times those 'Bob' commercials have come on while my daughter has been watching something...and I've somehow managed to avoid telling her what they're really about!  :P

She's always saying 'he's so weird' and stuff like that!

Yeah, I think that's more than anyone wants to know about Bob. ;D

At least in my area, those commercials seem to come in two's (15-second ones, right after the other). I can see how a kid would think he looked creepy, too.

Here's a novel idea: When you see a commercial like this, or maybe one for KY or tampons.....and you don't want to explain what it is to your child if they're sitting with you.....change the channel!

Here's a novel idea: When you see a commercial like this, or maybe one for KY or tampons.....and you don't want to explain what it is to your child if they're sitting with you.....change the channel!


I did... but then a commercial for "FloMax" came on and I had to explain to Juniior what it means to have deccreased semen as a possible side effect.

So I changed the channel again and then he wanted to know why the lady didn't "feel so fresh", so I changed the channel again.

...and they wonder why so many people channel surf...

  :P

I did... but then a commercial for "FloMax" came on and I had to explain to Juniior what it means to have deccreased semen as a possible side effect.

So I changed the channel again and then he wanted to know why the lady didn't "feel so fresh", so I changed the channel again.

...and they wonder why so many people channel surf...

  :P




If they ask, say it's none of your business/you're too young, and change the channel.  You don't need to explain anything to your kid.  Just because it's on and he's in the room doesn't mean you now have the chore of telling him what semen is. 

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Meh. Jason isn't old enough to understand this stuff yet. When he does start asking questions though, I'm not going to lie or sugarcoat it. That's stupid, and he'll just learn it somewhere else. Same goes for feminine hygiene products and condoms, K-Y Jelly, etc.

And cuss words, but my husband protests my potty mouth. :D

Meh. Jason isn't old enough to understand this stuff yet. When he does start asking questions though, I'm not going to lie or sugarcoat it. That's stupid, and he'll just learn it somewhere else. Same goes for feminine hygiene products and condoms, K-Y Jelly, etc.

And cuss words, but my husband protests my potty mouth. :D


"D'Nuh!"  :D ;D

"D'Nuh!"   :D ;D


BAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!

He said it in front of Rice today. When I told him what it meant, he rolled his eyes. :D

If they ask, say it's none of your business/you're too young, and change the channel.  You don't need to explain anything to your kid.  Just because it's on and he's in the room doesn't mean you now have the chore of telling him what semen is. 

Sure, let 'em find out in the locker room.  Some of the girls thought you could get pregnant via oral sex, and that was...that meant...that made it, we had to explain...oh never mind!
:-X

Did'ja ever see the movie "Carrie"?  That really happened to a girl in my 8th grade class.  She really did come from one of those insular Christian funny-mentalist families where it was a sin just to talk about the facts o' life!  Poor Anne-Marie.  She had a total panic meltdown.  She thought she was dying!  All I could picture was her getting some awful chalk talk on reproductive biology from that icy school nurse...the same school nurse who later denounced me and my circle as Satanists!
Thing is, Anne-Marie didn't look like noooo Sissy Spacek, tell you that much!
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Sure, let 'em find out in the locker room.  Some of the girls thought you could get pregnant via oral sex, and that was...that meant...that made it, we had to explain...oh never mind!
:-X

Did'ja ever see the movie "Carrie"?  That really happened to a girl in my 8th grade class.  She really did come from one of those insular Christian funny-mentalist families where it was a sin just to talk about the facts o' life!  Poor Anne-Marie.  She had a total panic meltdown.  She thought she was dying!  All I could picture was her getting some awful chalk talk on reproductive biology from that icy school nurse...the same school nurse who later denounced me and my circle as Satanists!
Thing is, Anne-Marie didn't look like noooo Sissy Spacek, tell you that much!
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Did you bother reading the posts preceding the one you quoted, or is this another tangent again?  I'm guessing the way LyricBoy was describing his son, that the boy was young.  If the kid is 14 and he asks and you say it's none of your business/you're too young, you'd have a point.  If the kid is 5, you don't.

And yes I've see Carrie, but what the hell does that have to do with this thread?

Meh. Jason isn't old enough to understand this stuff yet. When he does start asking questions though, I'm not going to lie or sugarcoat it. That's stupid, and he'll just learn it somewhere else. Same goes for feminine hygiene products and condoms, K-Y Jelly, etc.

And cuss words, but my husband protests my potty mouth. :D




Yeah, I was talking about dealing with young children seeing these commercials and asking questions.  I'm not advocating lying or sugarcoating anything once they grow up, though. 

Ah boo hoo. Who cares? Thats my attitude.

Although, I remember I was like 6 years old when I asked my dad about the birds and the bees, and he told me the truth. I'm pretty sure thats younger than most people.

But actually I find it kind of bizzarre that some parents wait so late, or choose to never do it themselves.  Sex is just as natural a part of life and death as eating or breathing, ITS WHAT MADE THE DAMN KID. :D

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Heck by the time my parents got around to getting the "birds and the bees" talk, I had already seen my first Johnny Wadd movie.  ;D

A lot of kids of yore had only a French postcard or two.  When I was a kiddo in the '70s, we had our dads' Hustlers and whatnot.  Today, kids have ready-access to material so hardcore that 30 years ago only private collectors could find it in the backstreets of Copenhagen!
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Some say this is doing great harm...

I can tell you this anyway, the only phto in Hustler that traumatized me was a grisly facial close-up photo of a woman dying of tertiary syphilis.   Gummatous pustules, nose rotted away, blank lidless eyes staring straight ahead.  I didn't know WTF it was, but it burned in my mind for weeks! Gave me nightmares!  Flynt liked to run shock pictorials on cancer, STDs, battlefield injuries, and so forth.  Ten-year-old were not the target readership, and old Larry would have said so himself, but I saw it anyway (twice! I forgot which issue it was in in the stack we had at the fort).  I saw all kinds of gruesome things, but that particular photo was a mind-blower.  Later I saw the same photo in college.  It turned out it was a reprinting of a photo from an "atlas" of sexually transmitted diseases.  Later a punk rock band used it as tasteful "cover art." 
It's on the net, message me if you want the link!  I'm not going to post the link, 'coz it's rotten.com-level gruesomeness!


Anyway,  what does "Carrie" have to do with this thread?  It has to do with what happens if you don't talk to your kids about the facts of life. 

Anyway, back to ED...

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Possible commercial tie in for Viagra or Cialis...

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I don't know if ED is huge plague among men these days, or if it is just the TV programing I watch, however in two hours of viewing, I see no less than a half dozen ED product advertisements. The ad's are extremely frequent on satellite provided television networks.
I have no children, however am somewhat concerned how parents must be handling or are being forced to answer uncomfortable questions that must be being presented by their young children that are old enough to be inquisitive about the advertisements, but are still too young to have been fully educated about human sexuality. (I'm thinking 6 to 8 year olds).
It seems to me that these advertisements are sort of forcing the issue to be discussed with children (or lied about) rather than having the subject of human sexuality being addressed at a point in time of the parents discression, and hence, maybe should be curtailed??
Comments?


just tell the kid that you don't know.

A lot of kids of yore had only a French postcard or two.  When I was a kiddo in the '70s, we had our dads' Hustlers and whatnot.  Today, kids have ready-access to material so hardcore that 30 years ago only private collectors could find it in the backstreets of Copenhagen!
http://www.inthe00s.com/smile/12/evil6.gif
Some say this is doing great harm...

I can tell you this anyway, the only phto in Hustler that traumatized me was a grisly facial close-up photo of a woman dying of tertiary syphilis.   Gummatous pustules, nose rotted away, blank lidless eyes staring straight ahead.  I didn't know WTF it was, but it burned in my mind for weeks! Gave me nightmares!  Flynt liked to run shock pictorials on cancer, STDs, battlefield injuries, and so forth.  Ten-year-old were not the target readership, and old Larry would have said so himself, but I saw it anyway (twice! I forgot which issue it was in in the stack we had at the fort).  I saw all kinds of gruesome things, but that particular photo was a mind-blower.  Later I saw the same photo in college.  It turned out it was a reprinting of a photo from an "atlas" of sexually transmitted diseases.  Later a punk rock band used it as tasteful "cover art." 
It's on the net, message me if you want the link!  I'm not going to post the link, 'coz it's rotten.com-level gruesomeness!



Unfortunately, decorum (as well as the Inthe00s.com terms of use) prevent me from describing the most memorable pictoral from Hustler (mid 1970's) that I have seen.  ;)

I have no children, however am somewhat concerned how parents must be handling or are being forced to answer uncomfortable questions that must be being presented by their young children that are old enough to be inquisitive about the advertisements, but are still too young to have been fully educated about human sexuality. (I'm thinking 6 to 8 year olds).
It seems to me that these advertisements are sort of forcing the issue to be discussed with children (or lied about) rather than having the subject of human sexuality being addressed at a point in time of the parents discression, and hence, maybe should be curtailed??
Comments?
Who here, at the age of 5 or 6, didn't at least once play the game of "I'll show you mine if you'll show me yours" (or, as we called it, "Naked Hospital") with a similarly-aged kid of the opposite sex? I don't see what the huge deal is.

I don't imagine that it is much different than having to explain to Junior what "K-Y Warming Sensation Personal Lubricant" is all about, or what is being hawked on the various tampoon, birth control pill, and feminine deoderant ads, or Gold Bond powder ads where the old guy states that it "took care of The Male itch".
Now those "K-Y Warming Sensation Personal Lubricant" commercials always kinda bugged me, especially the way the guy and his girlfriend make googly eyes at each other as she pulls a bottle of K-Y out of her purse and then they disappear. The first time I saw one of those commercials, I was watching TV with my brother, and I probably can't repeat word-for-word here the comment I made to to him, but it was along the lines of, "Oh my God...he's gonna go in the back door!"

God it's good to be back.  ;D

Unfortunately, decorum (as well as the Inthe00s.com terms of use) prevent me from describing the most memorable pictoral from Hustler (mid 1970's) that I have seen.  ;)



It had to do with an American flag-colored bikini bottom, I believe.

It had to do with an American flag-colored bikini bottom, I believe.


Nope.

This one was extremely disgusting ad graohic, thus memorable.  ;)

Nope.

This one was extremely disgusting ad graohic, thus memorable.  ;)





I thought the most famous Hustler image was the cover image that showed the woman's pubic hair?  She was wearing an American-flag bikini bottom.

Nope.

This one was extremely disgusting ad graohic, thus memorable.  ;)


That could be any one of a hundred!  Bet I've seen it though!
(that wouldn't happen to be the one that got Dirty Larry shot in the back?)

I think we're far more desensitized nowadays.  You've got sites like rotten and ogrish.  
"Hey check this out! It's a video of a Filipino kid on a bike getting flattened by a truck!"
"Cool" (click)
Screeeach! Crash! Smash! Splatter!
"Whoah! kewl! That kid got nailed big time! Front tire run right over his skull!

The most disturbing thought I have when I see one of those videos is not of the immediate horror captured.  It's not of the terrible loss of a human life.  It's "better him than me!"  
And that's just watching it over the Internet.  I think I gained some insight as to how soldiers get desensitized so quickly on the battlefield!
::)

If they ask, say it's none of your business/you're too young, and change the channel.  You don't need to explain anything to your kid.

I don't think you'll understand until you have kids of your own!

I don't think you'll understand until you have kids of your own!






So you'd feel compelled to explain erections to a 4 year old?

I don't think you'll understand until you have kids of your own!




My parents never seemed embarassed about this stuff.  My dad told me about the birds and bees when I was about 6 years old although I did ask.