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Even without the "age" factor. Those people get turned on by painting a bench, cleaning out an attic, or watching a kids' football game? Really??? 
I could never respect a man I could order around
unless they were paying me, of course 
vacuum cleaners, hair crèam, shoe cream, shaving cream, furniture, bras, koolaid, toys, hand soap, dish soap, laundry soap, bandaids, deodorant, TVs, TV dinners, coffee, beer, soda, fast food, cigarettes, cereal...
my theory is it's just 2 corporations that own everything, so they don't need ads anymore. found out the other day that one corporation/holding co owns most furniture companies AND most shoe companies. And "Buster Brown" is still a brand of shoes. And the merger between shoes and furniture happened longer ago than we think and the merger of most shoe companies happened even longer ago.
now it's financial services, boner pills, insurance...
People under 20 years of age made up over a quarter of the U.S. population (27.3%), and people age 65 and over made up one-eighth (12.8%) in 2009.[12]
The national median age was 36.8 years.[12]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_the_United_States#U.S._demographic_birth_cohorts
Yea, that makes sense. 
If that was what the commercial was about.
Men's erections are well-supported by health insurance. The results of those erections, to the extent they impact women, are challenged ferociously on the grounds that we all shouldn't be subsidizing women's sex lives.
This despite the fact that missing erections affect men's health approximately zero much, while birth control has radically greater impact on women's health.
I don't find that at all.
You do?
I think it's a vast oversimplification to suggest that somehow this is about "men's sexual enjoyment>womens reproductive health" or whatever you put, up there.
Speaking of compalining, the thing which really seems to bug people about this ad is NOT that it's "boner pills" but that it's an old dude with a younger woman. I don't know, personally I don't really care who fucks who as long as they're all consenting adults, but I do know that some people seem to have some fairly large axes to grind around that shit. Some people seem to be able to complain about just about anything. Like, when there was a draino commercial with an older woman and two "sexy" plumber dudes, they complained about THAT, too.
Nevertheless that has nothing to do with prescription drug coverage, does it?
But then a lot of these narratives depend on huge oversimplifications, broad generalizations, etc. There has to be one black and white problem, represented by all the blank who uniformly do or think x when they ought to do or think y.
But "Merica" isn't a monolith, and the universe isn't a series of easily identifiable 2 dimensional cardboard cutouts. And "the culture" is a whole bunch of different things and currents and cultures and NOT one thing. Hell, I feel like I'm talking to people from fucking mars half the time just when I deal with folks east of the Mississippi. They're fucking flabbergasted that 4 states have legalized marijuana, which certainly all the beltway conventional east coast nabobs would have told you up until a couple years ago was a non-issue and a political loser. How does the idea of one monolithic "culture" explain that shit?
It doesn't.
I don't care about boner pills being "impugned" but that doesn't mean I'm going not to call intellectually lazy arguments which pretend to conflate totally unrelated shit, what they actually are.
Or another example: I guarantee you that the demographics watching the cialis commercials - and certainly the folks whose grandchildren haven't informed them about these newfangled things called DVRs, which mostly render the whole idea of "commercials" pretty much moot - ...leaving aside the rare 20something woman who may actually be having sex with silver-haired cialis dude in a bathtub.... are NOT, for the most part, the same age groups who still have to worry about birth control.
Because if you're like the general demographic outlay of DU, or even if you're like me- someone who skews young for DU but old for the rest of the internet- then I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but "the culture" isn't anything you or I have our fingers on.
"The culture", again, is not monolithic, but whatever monolith there is, is comprised of the people who saw Paul McCartney on stage at the Superbowl and said "who is that old guy"?
Again, not welcome news, I understand. But truth.
It's interesting though that commercials which DO portray female sexual enjoyment as cutesy and fun ALSO piss off the perpetually culturally outraged, so I guess there's no winning.
Am I the only one that is bothered by this, when Republicans are so damn eager to make sure women have no access to birth control or abortions? It just struck me as perverse
Or was that paragraph invisible?
My observation on what's creepy is actually my own.
Actually.
That's a "comedian on stage"-worthy remark!!!!
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lining up to date senior citizens. It's so realistic. 
When are people going to realize that the thought of being with an old man is repulsive to young girls.
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I didn't know whether I was coming or going. 
erectile dysfunction and benign prostatic hypertrophy (I hate cutesy initials for disease). The first scene is the usual spiel about spur-of-the-moment sex. The next is a couple in the stands at a sporting event and the announcer lets you know that you won't have to suddenly find a bathroom if you take Cialis. I'm sure the vast majority of watchers think to themselves, "Who wants to have sex in a dirty, old, stadium bathroom anyway?"
