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  • 29-05-2012 3:13pm
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    arynne
    Registered Users Posts: 66 ✭✭




    Unilever must surely now have hit rock bottom with their latest Lynx Deodorant advertisement. This TV commercial talks about "premature perspiration" and how to prevent it. This is a despicable attack on already vulnerable men.

    The creators of this crass insult know full well that there is a common sexual dysfunction that affects many men. In fact "premature ejaculation" is the commonest of all sexual dysfunctions. There is nothing funny about it. It can, if not properly treated, permanently destroy human relationships, reduce a man’s confidence to zero and drive him to suicide.

    Would women, for example, tolerate an advertisement for a perfume that made facetious reference to vaginismus? Of course they would not. But, because we are only men, it does not matter. No, according to Unilever, you can laugh away at men’s sexual dysfunction!

    These people make me sick. Unilever make me sick. The slick copy writers who came up with this commercial make me sick. The TV stations and the people in charge of Advertising Standards make me sick. They should all be deeply ashamed of themselves. Is there no bottom to the pits of depravation into which they seem so readily to crawl in the name of vulgar commerce?
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    FatherLen
    Registered Users Posts: 3,808 ✭✭✭FatherLen


    arynne wrote: »
    commonest

    ???

    and i laughed my arse off at that ad


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    Sykk
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,327 ✭✭✭Sykk


    R&R that way ->


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    Genghiz Cohen
    Registered Users Posts: 7,182 ✭✭✭Genghiz Cohen


    Cheap plug of a website?
    Likely.


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    Gee Bag
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,541 ✭✭✭Gee Bag


    arynne wrote: »
    Is there no bottom to the pits of depravation into which they seem so readily to crawl in the name of vulgar commerce?

    How very Victorian of you!


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    prinz
    Registered Users Posts: 14,598 ✭✭✭✭prinz


    They were shown a long time ago... but yes smack of double standards all the same, but I think you'll find it's actually aimed at men, so basically it's men laughing at.....men.


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    grindle
    Registered Users Posts: 6,026 ✭✭✭grindle


    arynne wrote: »
    pits of depravation

    lol.


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    #8
    chin_grin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,808 ✭✭✭✭chin_grin


    The OP doth protest too much methinks.


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    #9
    Anita Blow
    Registered Users Posts: 1,933 ✭✭✭Anita Blow


    *googles vaginismus*


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    Coriolanus
    Registered Users Posts: 4,879 ✭✭✭Coriolanus


    I preferred the one with the angels.


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    3ndahalfof6
    Registered Users Posts: 5,184 ✭✭✭3ndahalfof6


    im sure the doc could give you something for that


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    Mr.David
    Registered Users Posts: 1,701 ✭✭✭Mr.David


    The ad is a bit of a flop alright.....it requires a stiffer moral tone.


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    shopaholic01
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,916 ✭✭✭shopaholic01


    There are treatments available OP, you can get help for your problem these days.


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    MagicMarker
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 32,865 ✭✭✭✭MagicMarker


    OP, you wouldn't happen to be one of these "many men" would you?


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    Rothko
    Registered Users Posts: 12,851 ✭✭✭✭Rothko


    You don't happen to suffer from premature ejaulation, do you?


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    RichieC
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,333 ✭✭✭RichieC


    Two jonnys and a moth with a gee like a yawning hippo.


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    Stinicker
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 7,102 ✭✭✭Stinicker


    Lynx, meh Mynx more like :cool:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lssy62Ti0mU


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    Jaden
    Registered Users Posts: 2,393 ✭✭✭Jaden


    OP is a drag.


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    Mr.Biscuits
    Closed Accounts Posts: 750 ✭✭✭Mr.Biscuits


    OP, seen the ad and agree but you won't get the discussion you're looking for here as men complaining about such things (and those seen to be agreeing with 'em) are seen as weak and therefore, unmanly (worst nightmare for those among us wanting to impress our female regulars).

    Incidentally, the Club Orange 'Some Bits Are Crucial' commercial was more reprehensible, only on that occasion it used impotence as a punchline.

    I suggest you post here.


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    Mr Benevolent
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,456 ✭✭✭✭Mr Benevolent


    arynne wrote: »


    Unilever must surely now have hit rock bottom with their latest Lynx Deodorant advertisement. This TV commercial talks about "premature perspiration" and how to prevent it. This is a despicable attack on already vulnerable men.

    The creators of this crass insult know full well that there is a common sexual dysfunction that affects many men. In fact "premature ejaculation" is the commonest of all sexual dysfunctions. There is nothing funny about it. It can, if not properly treated, permanently destroy human relationships, reduce a man’s confidence to zero and drive him to suicide.

    Would women, for example, tolerate an advertisement for a perfume that made facetious reference to vaginismus? Of course they would not. But, because we are only men, it does not matter. No, according to Unilever, you can laugh away at men’s sexual dysfunction!

    These people make me sick. Unilever make me sick. The slick copy writers who came up with this commercial make me sick. The TV stations and the people in charge of Advertising Standards make me sick. They should all be deeply ashamed of themselves. Is there no bottom to the pits of depravation into which they seem so readily to crawl in the name of vulgar commerce?

    You're female, right?


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    FatherLen
    Registered Users Posts: 3,808 ✭✭✭FatherLen


    ok i really didnt think op was being serious.
    Its an ad ffs.
    get over it.
    people that get offended this easily must live in constant misery.


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    #22
    al28283
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,062 ✭✭✭al28283


    Isn't there a Personal Issues forum?


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    #23
    flanders1979
    Closed Accounts Posts: 638 ✭✭✭flanders1979


    wait Nadia...


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    #24
    Micky Dolenz
    Registered Users Posts: 44,080 ✭✭✭✭Micky Dolenz


    Come again,

    Just not so quick this time.


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    #25
    Deus Ex Machina
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,556 ✭✭✭Deus Ex Machina


    Bentest whimpiest moaniest thread ever.


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    #26
    Ficheall
    Registered Users Posts: 9,027 ✭✭✭Ficheall


    I didn't like the ad either, though it certainly didn't bother me enough to start a thread about it. I don't suffer from the dysfunction alluded to - it's just that the ad isn't as funny as it seems to think it is.

    There are far more irritating ads out there at the moment though.
    This c***ing thing
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XxxAO9RcLtE
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    for example, which pops up quite loudly before all the youtube videos I'm trying to watch these days, has ensured that I will never purchase a KIA.


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    #27
    ColeTrain
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,681 ✭✭✭ColeTrain


    Decent rant OP but you finished too quick, you could have went on for longer.


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    #28
    castletownman
    Registered Users Posts: 11,111 ✭✭✭✭castletownman


    I once attended a help group for premature ejaculators.

    But found myself sitting alone in an empty conference room

    I soon realised that I had came too late.

    *gets coat*


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    #29
    Sunnyisland
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,562 ✭✭✭✭Sunnyisland


    I am going sweat this one out.


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    #30
    mongdesade
    Closed Accounts Posts: 330 ✭✭mongdesade


    No need to blow your load OP


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    JONJO THE MISER
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 12,333 ✭✭✭✭JONJO THE MISER


    Who the **** wears linx:confused:


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