On Nov 19, 2004, at 9:45 AM, Dan Minette wrote:
----- Original Message ----- From: "Doug Pensinger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Well, I do. If you think that the beer commercials and the impotence
spots are just OK for your kids to watch, then its a mighty small step to
be bitching about this thing.
I don't know. Beer, as opposed to cigarettes can be enjoyed for its own
sake, and not as part of an addicting pattern.
Not the way it's promoted in the "feel good party on" beer commercials. It's considered a necessity in those ads. No one's having any fun at all until everyone's got a beer stuffed into his mitt. (The message, to me at least, is pretty ho-hum boring: Get drunk and be cretins just like us! -- so perhaps the advertising is having a self-nullifying effect. ;)
Absolutely alcohol can be enjoyed safely. But the commercials that advertise the product *do not* promote temperance.
Impotence spots seem to adress long term relationships (marriages) that
have been adversely affected by a physical dysfunction. Yes it deals with
sex, but it seems to deal with it in a healthy manner.
Please describe how you obtained the definition of "healthy" here. I'd be willing to bet that my ideas of healthy sex, and of dealing with sex in a healthy fashion, are radically at odds with yours. (For instance I don't tend to get doe-eyed when thinking of two people who've known each other forever still having sex -- that's great, but it is not the definition -- nor even the touchstone -- of sexual health or of dealing with sex in a healthy way.)
-- Warren Ockrassa, Publisher/Editor, nightwares Books http://books.nightwares.com/ Current work in progress "The Seven-Year Mirror" http://www.nightwares.com/books/ockrassa/Flat_Out.pdf
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