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There's typically few things more crass and disturbing than tampon ads in the United States. Honest to god, the coy manner of most menstruation product advertising is only one step away from openly calling it "the curse." This ad for U Tampons from Australia is a refreshingly playful approach to the vagina and its myriad functions. It makes me appreciate the old Aussie saying even more: "Thank god we got the convicts and the Americans got the puritans."
(props to Pandagon)
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*chuckle* Thanks for the laugh! Beats the heck out of most of the tampons ads we see down here in New Zealand - looks like we'll have to import some Aussie ones instead :)
xx Dee
this is great! it's such a play on THAT word! i can almost BET this commercial was conceived & written by a woman or women. why can't we get intelligent, creative, coyly funny commercials like this in America? oh yeah, everyone, and I mean EVERYONE, just KNOWS that a woman's "down there" is just icky & dirty.
Rock on. Love it, love it.
*yah, yah, yah*
h.k.
