Sunday, March 22, 2009

Controversial Ad

The link below came from a youtube search of "banned ads".  It portrays a young child and his father in a supermarket.  The young child is not allowed to get he candy that he wants, and throws a temper tantrum, pulling items off of the shelves and stomping his feet.  While everyone in the store stares at the father, the ad mentions to use condoms every time.  This page came up under the title of "banned commercials", and if indeed this commercial is banned, then the reason for it being banned is obvious.  Condom commercials are always risky because they imply sexual tones, and middle class america doesn't want their children exposed to sex, especially at a young age.  It implies that children are merely a failure of sex, which is completely different from the way people look at childbirth.  Condoms have become a major business, and only have emerged to become recognizable names in the past few decades, but for the companies to imply that children are merely a result of not using their product, it is rude and not to be on television.