I don't know eileenlaunonen..... maybe the makers of KY think that there are nothing but a bunch of old dried up housewives watching tv at that time of day and they're trying to reach out to them.

Have your kids asked you what it's for? Tell em a foot massage. hhahha!!

I haven't seen them but you are giving me one MORE reason I'm glad I got rid of cable TV and most of the TVs, too.

Eileen who is blissfully and quietly ignorant.

So use the mute button on the remote.

Eileen, times have changed. I don't particularly like it, but they have. Sigh.

I realized it on the 4th of July when I heard David's sister, Deanne, talking to her Grandmother. What were they discussing? That vibrator commercial where the older woman is eavesdropping on a couple of younger ones. The conversation went from there to condom commercials.

Grandma is in her late 80s, BTW.

Annie

Do you guys have the erectile dysfunction TV ads? Really, there are some things I don't need to know :-0

I'm not a prude and I will freely discuss just about anything with anyone. But I want to have those discussions at my own discretion. I would not want my small children to be introduced to information not appropriate for them at a very young age. I was and still am very open and frank with my children about sexuality and reproduction. But I believe in having those conversations when I want to have them, not when overexposure to media forces the topic.

Shaun, I'm just sitting here laughing at your comment! How funny.

I watch tv a lot with my Dad to keep him company and they embarrass me.

TV drives me crazy these days. If it were not for DH, I would have cancelled the cable years ago.

I'm not a prude either, but I get upset when suggestable content is aired during the daytime.

DS and I were watching some kind of show on Discovery or one of those channels, and one of the commercials was a preview of one of those reality tv shows, where these women are talking about vibrators. I shouldn't have to see that on a Saturday afternoon, watching very tame tv with a 9 year old. I never saw it coming, so there's no way I could have censored it.

And then I remember very well my son in law lamenting having to explain what oral sex was to his 9 year old....that was during the Monica Lewinski thing.
So it isn't all commercials....

At least KY leaves it to the imagination. Mostly. I was less than pleased when The Style network had their commercials running repeatedly for their What I Hate About Me show. There's a woman who proclaims, I hate that I can't have sex with the lights on. Of course my 10 year old son aske me what that meant. UGH!

I am with barnmom. I am definitely not a prude. But there is a time and place for everything, and public TV is not the place. I just don't watch TV. No problem.

yeah there are lots of things that make me cringe...

OMG Linda, really??? I can't imagine how he'd do that...I struggle with it with an almost 12 year old....but I guess he could probably explain it to me....:-)

The most disgusting commercial I've seen was last week for a new teen show. In the locker room one player was bare butt grabbing his ankles while another player was behind him looking at the butt saying "coach, do I have to shave around the hole too?".

I can handle all of what's written above; what I can not handle is commercials with live roaches running around. Now THAT disgusts me! hahaha!!!

OMG Cathy, that's so over the top, DISGUSTING-- what product was it?

I'm with everyone else, it's way more info than I want to know. Things are better left unsaid or for late night/ print ads. No wonder kids are growing up too fast and with no boundaries! The number and quality of the ads are why more and more of us are choosing to watch pre-recorded shows on DVR's.

Eileen when I first started reading your post I thought you were talking about GW CF sidebar ads. That's what was being advertised on my sidebar the other day. I looked over and saw, "Guarunteed to increase her pleasure" and I thought it was an ad for a special kind of chocolate chip cookie, but NOOOOO, I scrolled to the top and it was something "special" all right, a special kind of KY jelly. I agree, TMI and that's just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to tacky sexual references being blathered on about all over the place. (Double entendre slightly intended :). I'm not a prude either, but there is a difference between being prudish and just thinking that some things should remain out of the public sphere. I think a lot of things are private and should not be up for public consumption. I don't have TV either, for that very reason, there was so much garbage on when I had cable, and I couldn't see PAYING for the garbage to come into my house. A lot of good programming too, so that's a shame, but too much garbage to sift through to find it. I don't think SEX is the garbage part, it's the using of sex to SELL things that is the garbage.

You guys are validating my decision not to have television. Those ads sound repulsive. I agree with Barnmom: I'll decide when and with whom I have those conversations.

Exactly what Barnmom said! If I had children I wouldn't have a TV in the house. When my grandkids come over the TV is turned off and we do other things and there will never be a TV put in their bedroom.

Almost everything on TV these days is all about sex. Sex has it's most wonderful place in our society, but I can see no reason that nearly 100% of everything is now related to sex in some way. It's like our society thinks of nothing else. It may be great, but no one thing is this world is THAT great, no matter what it is. Saying a car is "sexy!" Get real!

Beverly

I remember the days of, "Modess ... because," when they didn't even describe what that product was on TV ads because it was considered too embarrassing.

I can't imagine what it would be like to have to explain the modern adult product ads to kids.

Anyone notice that if you click on the "KY Intense" banner ad you get taken to the facebook home page? Does this mean that you have to have a facebook account to learn more about the product?

(Of course I didn't try, or anything. Just wondering if anyone did!)

FOAS I use Mozilla Firefox, no banners on my page, go on, follow it and tell us where it goes!

Yeah, I remember when the bra commercials only came on after Johnny Carson. Things sure have changed.

The very first thing that came on our tv when we got cable was Jane Fonda, topless in Barbarella. Sheesh.

Now it isn't limited to the premium stations, like it was back then. I am grateful that I don't have to discuss four hour erections with young kids.

of course I immediately turn the channel but should that have to be a neccessity a 12 noon...no! I guess time slot is my issue