This is a banned PSA ad that encourages people to have protected sex with the use of condoms. Normally this wouldn't be a bad thing, but the way that this ad was portrayed was offensive. The ad starts off with an old man with a gun coming out of a bank after having just robbed it, they display his age of 73 on screen. The ad then cuts to a scene of the same man when he was younger at age of 46 breaking into a family's home with a knife.the ad continues showing this same man at different ages committing crimes and basically being bad-all around. The penultimate scene shows when this man was born and killed the mother while she was giving birth, the age 0 is displayed. It then cuts to his conception, with his parents making the decision to have unprotected sex. The ending shows a condom and the tagline "For your protection. And ours." Now this can be very offensive to those who want to have a child, because no one knows if their child is going to grow up to be a serial killer. So the individuals that created this ad should not have blamed all of that on the fact that the couple chose not to be safe. Because this could have happened even if they wanted to have the child, it has nothing to do with the fact that they weren't safe that night. To make this PSA acceptable, they should have taken the entire serial killer angle out, anything doing with how the child might grow up to be would be offensive. A better safe-sex PSA would have been something regarding STI's.
Monday, 4 November 2013
"Too Hot For TV" Banned Commercial - "Serial Killer Condom Ad"
This is a banned PSA ad that encourages people to have protected sex with the use of condoms. Normally this wouldn't be a bad thing, but the way that this ad was portrayed was offensive. The ad starts off with an old man with a gun coming out of a bank after having just robbed it, they display his age of 73 on screen. The ad then cuts to a scene of the same man when he was younger at age of 46 breaking into a family's home with a knife.the ad continues showing this same man at different ages committing crimes and basically being bad-all around. The penultimate scene shows when this man was born and killed the mother while she was giving birth, the age 0 is displayed. It then cuts to his conception, with his parents making the decision to have unprotected sex. The ending shows a condom and the tagline "For your protection. And ours." Now this can be very offensive to those who want to have a child, because no one knows if their child is going to grow up to be a serial killer. So the individuals that created this ad should not have blamed all of that on the fact that the couple chose not to be safe. Because this could have happened even if they wanted to have the child, it has nothing to do with the fact that they weren't safe that night. To make this PSA acceptable, they should have taken the entire serial killer angle out, anything doing with how the child might grow up to be would be offensive. A better safe-sex PSA would have been something regarding STI's.
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