
A thorough gumming
Job well done
The Advertising Standards Authority has ordered Sky to be more careful with its telly scheduling after it showed a racy condom advert just after a kids' film. A viewer wrote to the ASA to complain about the Durex ad, which was shown directly after Ice Age 4 at 9.32pm on Sky Movies Premiere. The concerned telly lover was …
> your children can find far better porn on the web
Although Swiss lawyers might start sending you letters if they do.
That will help them getting knocked up when they are 15 (or knocking someone else up, just to be inclusive), who knows.
Who knows also seems to be the answer to the question of why was a kiddies show so the ending was after the watershed time? Is there any competent people at Sky and, this is the big one, why do you pay money for 30 mins of adverts per hour?
We can definitely assume 1 Adult was watching it and unlike other parents probably did which is just plonking their children in front of the flat-screen childminder whilst they are in another part of the house, they may remember to send the kid to bed at some point in the evening.
I must have been about ten, certainly not more than twelve, when they showed us what condoms were and how they work in sexual education class.
If I write to the ASA (what's the last 'A' stand for, btw? It's not like it's any real authority anyway) to tell them that the one person who wrote to complain is just a sad wanker and that there's nothing wrong with condom ads, will they retract their statement?
"No, no, no, you've got it wring. The ASA is against parents being put in positions where they might have to explain sex to their children. Big difference you see...
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Now you've said that, it all makes sense. The ASA are there to prevent you from having that awkward moment when theres a sex scene on the TV and your mother and father are in the same room. The mother wishing her husband would do that to her, the father wishing his wife's sister was in to it, and you just wishing you were somewhere else.
I TOTALLY see the point now.
As far as my kid goes, I figure either
a) ...he doesn't know about sex yet, in which case a condom ad with sexual overtones will just be nonsense and he'll forget about it
or
b) ...he already knows about sex, in which case the condom ad isn't going to alter anything one way or another
I have yet to discern a flaw in my logic in this regard. The goal, of course, is to make sure I get to him with something *more* than innuendo before someone who thinks something like, "You can't get pregnant the first time" does - but all the suggestive language in the world isn't going to affect *that*.