At work they always have on this local radio station playing standard inoffensive fare from the 60's onwards. You know the type of thing. For as long as I can remember pretty much every advertising break has included a safe sex advert, aimed at teenagers (The question of why they have these adverts on this station is one I'm not really interested in here, but is a question worth asking anyway: talk about an advert completely missing its intended audience).
So I'm at work yesterday and I hear not a single advert telling me how horrible STDs can be. What's on instead? Every advertising break I am now deluged by adverts telling me that being single is horrible and, especially at this time of year, I should consider their dating service.
I understand the whole advertising-love-when-all-over-the-place-single-people-are-feeling- especially-single-given-the-sweet-valentine-action-everywhere thing. What I find odd is that this isn't also therefore the best time to get their safe sex message out there. The only answer to this is obviously that the dating companies don't want their ads sandwiched between some depressed teen whose lost everything because of an ill-advised condomless sexual adventure (or am I confusing this with the anti drink-drive ad? maybe she's just lost her boyfriend and her sexual appetite).
This, of course, actually implies that there is no such thing as a Public Service Announcement, these things are just ways to fill in airtime when there's a lack of actual advertisers. When actual advertisers come along the public can go fuck themselves (without a condom).
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