TV Commercials

What the hell is going on with TV commercials these days. It's never safe to let your children watch Tv anymore.

In the middle of a pro football game last Sunday, on came a commercial for viagra or one of those types of drugs.

It explicitly stated to call if your 'erection' last too long to call the doctor, also a few times in the same commercial something about having or being able to have sex.

What the hell???

My little kids like to watch football, I don't want them hearing words like :

erection, sex, or anything that has to do with either.

Also there are the commercials for women's personal products. Why the hell am I seeing maxi pads flying through the air like little birdies, do they really think that people want their children to see this crap. And also the tampon commercials, why to they think that they need to show eveyone what they look like, and even put them in clear tubes ( supposed to be a fake vagina??) to show you how they open and 'protect'.

This is disgusting at any level. I have, however , seen commercials for condoms, and they have all been late at night, on channels that children shouldn't be watching anyway, so I won't rag on those compaines.

And how about the other perscription drug commercials? It used to be that the doctor's themselves were the ones who got all the information about new drugs first. Now they are trying to get people to go and ask their doctors for their brand of whatever kind of drug it is, instead of your doctor diagnosing your situation and see if it is what they think you might try.

Then we have the local commercials that show up on cable tv channels. The local cable company sells the ad space. I have seen local commercials for adult "toy shops" on channels like the learning channel and the weather channel. I think that this type of commercial does not belong on channels that they would expect chilren to watch.

Just one more here..the infomercials. I pay my cable bill, and I expect to get the channels that I pay for. The stations or the cable companies are sellling time to people for hours on end, especially in the middle of the night, if I wake up, or cannot sleep, I would like to be able to watch the learning channel, or history channel. or any other cable channel that I am paying for instead of seeing infomercials , who are paying someone for the same channel/air time that I have already paid for.

I am so sick of it all, what ever happened to cable channels without commercials, that's how it used to be.