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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsI don't get the man and woman in separate bathtubs commercial
No one I've asked gets what the two separate tubs is about. Any ideas?
SoCalNative
(4,613 posts)twin beds in the movies and TV prior to the 1960s...make a commercial for an ED med..but can't show intimacy
underpants
(182,968 posts)Very interesting
NBachers
(17,155 posts)Initech
(100,118 posts)Warpy
(111,405 posts)It got ridiculed off the air a couple of decades ago. Nobody got it, it was beyond stupid.
rzemanfl
(29,577 posts)zipplewrath
(16,646 posts)ED medicine is about sex. But you can't run an ad about sex all that easily in alot of markets and times. So you want to make an allusion to having sex, with out actually doing it. So how can you show two people naked without showing them in bed? Put them in a bathtub. Not together of course because that would be two naked people together. But if you put them in a bathtub BY THEMSELVES, then they are just taking a bath. Of course, they are taking a bath AT THE SAME TIME and usually holding hands while they do so. So you have naked people holding hands, but they aren't having sex, they're taking a bath.
hvn_nbr_2
(6,490 posts)Why do most of the men in ED commercials appear to be dating their daughters' friends?
Iggo
(47,581 posts)Same reason there's a bunch of 12 yr olds playing with a toy for 5 yr olds in a toy commercial.
They ain't selling it to who you are. They're selling it to who you want to be.
Squinch
(51,072 posts)all the other weird places they go? Does the woman have to carry her own bathtub? Because I don't think I could do that.
ED sex must be really, really weird.
rurallib
(62,471 posts)don't you?
FSogol
(45,567 posts)pills to get things up.
Laffy Kat
(16,391 posts)FSogol
(45,567 posts)pair of cast iron claw-footed bathtubs in an auction. What the hell does that mean?
AgadorSparticus
(7,963 posts)Donkees
(31,504 posts)New York Times advertising expert, Stuart Elliot offers this explanation:
The tubs are symbols of relaxing, taking your time, not hurrying, in that a bath is more relaxing than a shower. They reflected that from the start, Cialis advertising was warmer and gentler than ads for Viagra more feminine, as it were.
The differences are meant to underline a basic difference between Cialis and its rivals: while Viagra and Levitra provide a four-hour window during which a man can get and keep an erection, Cialis opens that window to 36 hours.
The continuous presence of women in Cialis ads is a subtle signal that the drug can help them set the pace with their partners, in contrast to the primarily male-driven imagery for Levitra and Viagra. For that reason, Europeans have called Cialis le weekend drug.
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Claw-footed bathtubs. Symbolism: its about fixing your OLD PLUMBING! 😉
http://www.brindlemedia.net/2009/08/bathtub-symbolism/