Tuesday, July 28, 2009

Womens' Extenze?

I recently saw a commercial for this product:
This is no clever photoshop. The packaging reads, "energize youthful desire," "enhance arousal & response," "boost passion," and "increase sexual intensity."

At first I thought I was watching a normal Extenze commercial, but I was wondering where the girl was that's supposed to be fawning all over him and his assumedly enhanced member. Apparently he is the spokesman for this product: an older gentleman with enough classic suave about him to mark him as an obvious sexual predator candidate.
It's a lefty and she just can't stop staring.

Sure, any gender can sell (almost) any product. I'd have no problem watching an obscenely hot chick try to sell me a a penis pill, even if I just saw her two commercials ago begging me to call the HotLine for some "uncensored action." But in advertising, gender is as big a deal as race, age, or attractiveness--anything readily visible so the viewers can judge their character in the several-second window they're being watched. Most commercials try to be as diversified and neutral as possible.
Charmin covers all genders and still has Mama Bear reaching for what appears to be Papa Bear's vagina.

Maybe the older gentleman obvious rapist is supposed to appeal to the opposite sex, alluring them to the television with the audible stench of his Calvin Klein cologne. But we all know the real reason they chose this man to pitch the sale: slip it in some alcohol and she'll never know. Roofies are up to ten times as pricey per pill anyway. Why not just make her horny?

Well, don't worry girls. The whole thing's a scam. ExtenZe has been selling pills supposedly packed with aphrodesiacs for years to men, and don't even have any science to support their claims, being composed mainly of Zinc and a pair of hormones not worth ingesting. In fact, this stuff can make you very, very sick, and getting a refund is nigh impossible. In fact, the thirty-day free trial is apparently a load of bull--they just charge your card as soon as you give them your credit card information.

"Natural male enhancement" is an obvious reference to what penis enlargement. But this is never actually stated anywhere on the packaging or in the commercials. Everyone simply "notices the difference." One woman had the audacity to say, on television, that "it would be over" if her boy-toy stopped using this product.

I wonder how much these people were paid in exchange for their dignity. I couldn't find the actual commercial for this on YouTube, but I did find a parody of the original commercial that, uh, "enhances" their credibility. Notice how the pill color changes mid-commercial.



Critic of Pure Reason

Welcome, reader, to what may soon be the most visited and popular blog on the web.

My name is Lee, and I'll be your host through this land of awesome. Where are we going? What are we doing? Alas, reader, I cannot say--beyond ruining the surprise, I don't know either. What I can tell you is what this blog will not be:
- related to my personal life in a whiny fashion.
- narrowly-focused on a single topic.
- boring.
- bad.

Since this is my first post, I'll delve a little into my personal history. As of this writing I'm a twenty-year-old college kid trying to make a living. This is not the first blog of mine, and may not be the last, but it is the first one I'm serious about.

"But why," one might ask, "would you be serious about it now?" I'uno. Let's see how it works out.