Please take the poll at the end of each section, so I know what people think of these types of advertisements!
STD Testing:
Should it make a difference how STD prevention awareness is spread? Would it be more realistic to people if it were presented by 'real' people? Or would people want to be more active in prevention and testing if commercials portrayed "beautiful" people getting tested and/or talking about it (such as actors, actresses, models, porn stars)? Does it matter if they are presented through commercials, magazine/photograph advertisements, songs?
Here are a few condom advertisements. It was REALLY hard for me to pick such a small amount of them-there are SO many amazing condom ads out there!
(For the two images above-obviously they should not be run somewhere children are likely to see them. They would be ads more aimed at teenagers and young adults-or even older adults!)
(That last one I actually saw on television the other day!)
The most popular approach to condom advertisement seems to be humor-humor relaxes people, puts them at ease with the subject being discussed. Perhaps parents can take this into account when talking to their children about sex?
So if the US were to run any of these advertisements, which one do you think they should do? (please feel free to select multiple answers, if you liked more than one,but not all, of the ads!)
[More Coming Soon!]
If our country can constantly run sexually oriented advertisements, movies, television shows and music, why can't we also run safe sex advertisements? And while movies may not all be sexually oriented, think about it-how many times have you watched a movie where at the beginning of that steamy sex scene one of the partners pulls out a condom? Or how about those rap songs? Have you ever heard one of those songs mention using a condom? Or some other type of birth control? Certainly not very often.
I sincerely believe that what we expose our children to while they are growing up affects the decisions they make later in life. If as a young teenager, they are allowed to watch movies, shows and listen to songs like these, they will not take sexual activity as serious as they should. When you are constantly being told that something is fun and that it is okay to do it whenever you want, with whoever you want, you will start to believe it. This is especially true with children whose parents are afraid to talk to them about sex. Safe sex awareness is something that is seriously lacking in a society as sexualized as ours.
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