Why are there so many feminine hygiene commercials on TV?

Question

Not everybody needs to be exposed to that. While menstruation is a beautiful thing in its own way, it does not need to be shown to everybody, mainly men and children. I even find those commercials during family shows.

You can include commercials about the male private area and everybody's private area in the same category. They are all personal health issues that should remain private to a certain extent.

You can include commercials about the male private area and everybody's private area in the same category. They are all personal health issues that should remain private to a certain extent.

Answer 1

Businesses capitalize off of women's insecurities. If they can make a woman think that something is wrong with her hygiene, then they got her mind, and ultimately, her money. Personally, the only things that I feel I need as a woman is body wash, lotion, deodorant, and sanitary napkins! I don't buy all that sh*t like Summer's Eve douche and all that other stuff. I know I don't have a problem!!!

Answer 2

Mmmm, wassamatta, you don't like seeing a woman bounding through a field of daisies talking about how fresh or not so fresh she is? ;) Lol ;) What is more, what does the field of daisies have to do with how fresh or not so fresh she really is?

And you don't like to have a tampon descriptive commercial talking about how each type expands?

HEY MAN I think the commercials about bladder control products are just as bad! :)) Anyone who has lived, for 2 minutes, is well aware that they are available should they ever develop a drip.

I am with you, and I am female. I really don't need a commercial telling me what type of monthly protection I should use. EVERY woman in a certain age group has to go to the store to buy the product and can figure out which one she likes best while there.

So, if you have that not so fresh feeling, beware of the daisys... they can be a killer.

Answer 3

Commercials actually never show you anything about menstruation but just are using one very serous issue about it: women's freedom and comfortability. Using exactly "our" product you can feel dry, secure and active like any other day cause "we" could set you free from everything you hate. So I don't think commercials are manipulating with hygienic and intimate issues as much as with personal and sensitive ones, since they are pretending to make menstruation non-existing thing. In reality, it NEVER looks like in the commercial. They want make us consumers, and the great ideal consumerism and commercialism is exploiting, no matter which product they advertise, is our personal well-being and freedom. Something very similar happened in the commercial for some electric razor for men: "while you are shaving, you don't need to think about that, you can think about anything else you want". The message is that the razor is so safe and precise that you don't need to be careful. or the one for some mobile operator when a man looks at the beautiful sunset from the top of the mountain and describes it to his wife by the phone. Or for some notebooks, when a man is communicating with his boss from the beautiful tropical beach. But the question is, why shouldn't I think about what I am doing in my bathroom, why should I use the cell-phone while climbing on the mountain and why should I be available for my boss even when I am on my vacation? The answer: to by their products.

Answer 4

Hey, it's a big industry, and many women have an interest in what innovations come about and what products are out there. Why do they advertise male enhancement products so much? Because there is a demand for the products, and even more demand after the advertisting. Take solace in the fact that they advertise the products when mostly women are watching, logically enough. Men probably get a little uncomfortable too when personal products like Preparation H, the aforementioned Viagra-type pills, prostrate pills, or hair replacement therapies are advertised.

Answer 5

It's advertising, for heaven's sake. Large companies have the money to purchase spots on television and advertise their products. Isn't this the American way?

Those 'products' are used by women each month...a purchase decision made more frequently than buying a car! How did America become so squeamish and narrow minded? How bout beer commercials? Do they offend your sensibilities because they promote alcohol consumption?

Come on...lets all grow up! If we can't handle discussions about the natural occurences in the female body...then I guess I don't need to wonder any longer why children are having babies! Mom and Dad are just too uncomfortable with real conversations!

Answer 6

women persons do no longer do it, companies do. in basic terms like companies placed on classified ads for erectile disease medicine, and classified ads for inner maximum lubricants, and a lot of classified ads for products that have no longer something to do with the reproductive device, yet which demonstrate acts that would desire to be considered pornographic. whilst using erectile disease medicine, very own lubricants, regardless of product it relatively is that makes Beyonce roll around ecstatically in gold funds is elective, women persons don't have an elective menstrual cycle. you may nonetheless discover it offensive, in spite of the incontrovertible fact that it is not sexually offensive. There are classified ads for jock itch medicine, additionally. there's a lot of stuff on television that i do no longer prefer to be sure, however the final public of the inhabitants have not have been given any issue with, and maximum of it has to do with using intercourse as an advertising gadget. If it did no longer sell the products, it would not be used. you're indignant via a product that's a hygiene product, yet there are a lot of classified ads that sell no longer something yet intercourse. adult males think of it relatively is high-quality to be sure women persons's breasts and persons behaving erotically all over the television, yet you have have been given a issue with yeast infections?

Answer 7

I think it's there to make women and men feel absolutely uncomfortable. Why can't they just keep the advertisements in the womens magazines if they need to advertise it., and vice versa for the men.(viagra should go into a penthouse or auto book) Hahha...
Anyways, bottom line I guess... is those companys want to get people to buy "their" product so want to get the word out*

Answer 8

Menstruation is painful, it's inconvenient, and it certainly isn't choosy about what it ruins. It's not disgusting, it's not an illness, and it happens to most women for a 1 week out of every 4, between the ages of about 15 to 50. You can't turn it off if you don't like it, and it lasts a lot longer than 2 minutes.

And you think YOU have something to complain about?!

Answer 9

Hey, the manufature of feminine hygiene products are a multi-billion dollar industry. HIGHLY COMPETITIVE. It's just amazing: company A will introduce new 'features', company B will try to outdo company A...you walk into a Safeway these days and stand there for 20 minutes not knowing what the hell...reading and looking, looking and reading...You may personally find it distasteful but the advertisements will remain nonetheless. $$$$$$$$$$$ Rules.

Do you have issues with the toilet paper industry as well? Again, another highly competitive industry, Probably not, That's because on a subconscious level you are possibly reacting to a fear about menstrating women - that they are 'unclean'. If it's unconscious you can't possibly tell me "absolutely not" because you can't possibly know that for certain.. Suffice it to say that this theory is not beyond the realm of possibility. In any event, you can see this same negative attitude (theory) manifested in the the dogma of major religions: check it out. There are a host of (historical - and sometimes even current-day) sanctions against menstruating women who were/are considered UNCLEAN,

Answer 10

What is to be uncomfortable about? It's a natural phenomenon that most women have to go through. You all act like it's pornography. Personally, talking about erectile disfunction is more inapprorpriate if you are going to use this argument as it is related to sexual activity.