Sanitary pad ads on tv

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Firstly - if it's been posted before, I apologise, as there's always one snippy person who will point it out to me.. (rolls eyes)
I just think they are horrible.. bad enough in the past, but now, we have to have splashes of blood on them? REALLY? Is it just me?

Actually, the NHS ads too.. why are they (presumably) spending millions advertising? (The latest one is the guy going to do his poo test.) These tests are sent out to - I think - over 60's in England anyway. Younger in Scotland, as I recall. Surely anyone younger knows by now, blood in poo, (try and) make a GP appointment?

Maybe it's just me being grumpy.. ? Every time I see either advert, I get the rage!

But they don’t use actual blood, it’s coloured water, besides the tiny amount of liquid used in the advert doesn’t represent a true period, which renders it useless as an absorbency guide.

There is nothing gory about the sanitary pads ads. It's just an animation showing drops of liquid and it makes sense that the drops are red, not blue as they used to be.

I’ve never really understood the need to advertise sanitary protection. Has anyone ever gone and bought a type due to an ad?

That’s the one. I feel for the poor woman.

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Oh yes the period drama one is dire. Incontinence pants do seem to be getting lots of advertising time, I guess they are profitable.

As for needing red fake blood in sanitary pad adverts will we soon have fake diarrhoea on Imodium adds? Or fake constipated poo for Dulcolax adds? I do hope not.

So many things to worry about, you get hung up on something normalising periods (you know, so women and young girls don’t feel ashamed of something normal) and something else done to raise awareness so people don’t ignore what can be a serious symptom 🙄🙄🙄

Lol. No afternoon delight for you with the shaggy haired kimono wearer!

Picture yourself as a 13 year old experiencing her first period. Her mother has told her nothing. Imagine her horror when instead of seeing blue liquid in her knickers she sees blood! I am 67 now and my mother told me nothing about periods until I had had two or three. Luckily I had a big sister whomexplained everything. To me the more down to earth information there is out there the better.

13 year olds are taught about periods from about year4 these days.

They're advertising their brand, why they're the 'best' etc. Its not to make people aware sanitary products exist

Around half the population will use period products so why not advertise to them?!

And the uptake of FIT tests is around 71% in England. Less in Scotland. Cervical screening uptake is less than 50% which is crazy. If you see an advert then maybe it's a prompt to do it. Shame on the NHS/Public Health England/broadcasters for wanting to save lives 🙄

With regards to your NHS comment, it's preventative medicine.

It's a hell of a lot cheaper to treat someone with stage 1 cancer than it is to treat someone with stage 4 cancer. So even with the added cost of the advert, it works out cheaper for the NHS in the long term.

Plus, y'know, there's the added benefit of less people dying. It's something we should be doing a hell of a lot more of.

@MurderAtTheBeautyPageant Lol @ ‘shaggy haired kimono wearer’. What a turn on.

100%YANBU OP

Do not get me started on the menopause and incontinence pants.

(Post menopause50yo)

I'm passively intrigued about when there starts being a demand for more 'realistic' toilet roll adds. Why just show puppies and babies? Surely no one should be ashamed of a (literally) everyday bodily function 😆

Was just about to say the same.

I have to say I also find all these ads annoying. The NHS is overstretched and if you do phone your GP you'll be told to go away.

If you call an ambulance because of FAST (stroke) you'll be lucky if they get to you in time.

What is the point of all these ads when the NHS can't cope as it is?

And I find the sanitary towel ads excruciating. As if you can skate in white!

I’d rather watch the ads than hear someone say they’ve ‘got the rage’.

The ad that annoys me most is the Verisure one, well actually all the Verisure ads. I don't know what it is but I hate them all.

YADNBU - Sanitary Towels
Who on god's earth wants to see blood on a sanitary towel. Which advertising idiot would think for one moment that people want to see something so graphic.

YABU - NHS bowel cancer.
Lots of people don't know about this and need to be aware. It's the type of cancer that if it isn't caught extremely early, there's sadly not a lot they can do.

It's over 60s both DH and I got one for our 60th birthday 😁

I HATE the incontinence one where she is parading around in a pair of pants....And PRETTY.....

You would think most people know these things but unfortunately they don’t. Some people stay away from Health Care Settings for a number of reasons, they maybe also be isolated from people and just don’t get this information that you think is second nature.

For others, seeing that advert might encourage that trip to the GP that they have been putting off.

so yea YABU

It is, but the kits are sent out automatically with an explanatory letter and booklet, so is advertising actually needed?