To find this picture vomit-worthy...

[ThatGhastlyWoman]

Apparently, my ex finds this really funny.

(I almost felt the need to point out on his Facebook wall that he has absolutely no need for this product...)

Disgusting and degrading. I'm assuming this is some sort of teenagers photoshopping not an actual ad by Durex or the asa need to be told.

Exactly, birds. However, having googled a bit, apparently the story behind it is that it's a spoof of this Burger King ad. Not that that changes much!

oh fgs its hardly supporting sexual violence.

OK so I'm not seeing that it's supporting sexual violence either...I'm thinking there's a fair bit of overthinking going on here

So you're giving oral sex and it begins to split the side of your mouth...does he stop, or carry on, assuming you'll patch t up later?

Thats vile.

TBH I find even the original Burger King ad a bit .

But the Durex spoof is truly repellent.

Of course it's supporting sexual violence. Let's ram my knob down some poor womans throat nutil she bleeds.

Sexual. Yes.
Violent. Yes.

naice

Now I'm far from the most right-on woman in town, but fuck me that's offensive

I would have to comment about him not needing them if I were you, then delete him from my friends list.

I wouldn't even make the comment. I wouldn't want to engage with him apart from to de-friend him.

If he asked me why I'd done so though, I'd take great pleasure in telling him.

My DH worked for an agency that did work for Durex. Some of the campaigns, especially international ones, were really awful and dh often had to point out some of them would not be allowed in the uk.
Some of them were really awful, like Geo location apps to find people you were chatting to on their website. He had to tell them it was asking for stalkers etc to find victims - they hadn't thought of that
He no longer works for the agency, whom they sacked anyway, but the really seemed not to have any idea about whether their ideas were inappropriate at all. Both men and women worked in their marketing dept making these decisions.

Yet another example of the violence that is pitted against women. The fact that it has made it into an advertising campaign is horrifying.

But then again, we're meant to take it as a joke and find it funny, I suppose.

This is the second time I've seen the accusation 'over-thinking' levelled at a feminist-based topic of discussion on here in the last few days...

Interesting. And yes, I realise the usual types will accuse me of playing fast and loose with the word 'interesting'.

Quite aside from how foul both adverts are, I'm not sure that it's a great idea to advertise XXL condoms. It's well established that condoms that are too big leak and therefore fail to prevent pregnancies or the spread of STDs. Advertising will just encourage inadequate fools to buy the wrong size.

Well, yes, exactly.

The only way some people deal with certain issues is not to question them - presumably because they suspect that in doing so it might reveal some uncomfortable truths... Easier just to brush things under the carpet. Ignorance is bliss.

Now that I've started to notice this response, I bet I'll see it more and more.

Have made my complaint to the relevant bodies.

You should have made the comment on his fb page about him not needing them.

He deserves to have his mates laugh at him. Am guessing that stuff like this is the reason he's an ex.

Not funny. And even if it doesn't promote sexual violence (which I think it does) it promotes the idea that blow jobs are compulsory. I have big issues with this, maybe because I've never liked giving them and yet so many young women feel they have to. I had a conversation with a young colleague in the pub once when she confessed that she hated blow-jobs and when I told her she absolutely didn't have to and if her boyfriend loved her he wouldn't make her she looked at me like I'd given her the keys to the kingdom. Still remember the horror of that conversation.

Softlysoftly

A quick google indicates that it is an actual ad, from America possibly. Am loath to link to the ad tho. Really don't want to give them traffic.

Tell him to start wearing them as hats since he's such a dickhead.

YANBU.

Elinor, how does it promote the idea that blow jobs are compulsory?