Speaking of Advertising Whores...

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Of course the Parents Television Council is crying child corruption. They've presented two brilliant arguments

1. They never know when the commercial will pop up and make their son/daughter(yessir!) a slavering hedonist.
2. It's aired during teen television (O.C., Desperate Housewives, The Apprentice, sports programs) introducing sexuality to pubescents at a point they might not be ready for it.

Tyler Durden's practice of splicing single frames of hardcore porn into Disney animated features springs to mind. It's still funny. Sorry folks, just don't let your kids watch TV or some shit. I subscribe, and always will, to the "My God this wouldn't matter if your kids knew the rules and that you loved them" paradigm.

Onto the inherently paradoxical second argument. Teen = physically ready for sex. Most 13 to 16-year old boys will tell you, being physically ready for sex usually nets nothing more than sticky sheets and the pleasant surprise of unsolicited classroom erections. I was lucky enough to have an older friend lay down grand expectation for me so sagaciously, "Man, once you get your first pube, you can start jerking off." Hot diggity dog that was an exciting prospect.

Granted, sex is a little ridiculously used in advertising (in fucking tire commercials....Firestone Tires), but who gives a shit? We think about sex all the time because, basically, it's the only reason we exist. Yes, yes, human, intelligent, given to a higher calling, blah blah blah. When you're going through puberty, you're either whining with an exaggerated sense of self-importance or trying to have orgasms. Let the commercial air. Give budding boys something less ridiculous to choke the bishop to than a breast rendered Picasso by line static.