OK, I know I'm an old broad, but what is with the bathtubs in the Cialis

[Raven]

ads? What is that supposed to be about? What am I missing in my life? Is the fact that I don't have matching bathtubs on my deck the reason I don't have dates? Are matching bathtubs like having separate beds as one of my younger friends suggested? Just what is sexy about that and...is there water in those tubs? Mud? Jello? What?

[OmahaBlueDog]

1. I'm right in their marketing demo (44yo male), and I'll be damned if I know

[LostInAnomie]

2. I think it is supposed to symbolize the relaxed feeling after an orgasm.

Sort if a shared afterglow. Because now that you have your magic boner pill, surely you'll be able to get your wife off. Nevermind the fact that the reason you probably have erectile dysfunction is because you are out of shape or old.

You'll also probably notice that the men featured in the commercials are relatively young and in shape.

[Raven]

4. OK, I'll go with that but why 2 bathtubs rather than one big one? And

I still want to know what's in them...other than the people. :-)

[peacefreak]

3. Ya know, I've wondered the same thing.

If I were in that tub, cold scotch, hot jazz, a candle & a bowl would be just about right.

[Raven]

5. This is amazing! None of the cool people in DULounge know

what these bathtubs mean. I thought the answer was going to be easy...

[Skittles]

6. gawd, Raven, you don't know? Do I need to kick your ass?

yeah well, I don't know either but I think YOU should know

[MGKrebs]

7. I'm sure you've seen this, but I have a bad memory, so...

just in case:

http://www.badassoftheweek.com/

[Skittles]

8. I WILL KICK BLENDA'S STATUE ASS

YES INDEED

[Raven]

11. Yikes! I am now seriously in over my head.

[Raven]

10. Uh, I obviously missed something in my sexual education but, then, I

went to the nuns.....

[Robyn66]

9. Historically vessels that hold water like bowls are symbols for vagina's

Which makes it even MORE WEIRD! Because you don't need two vagina's on the porch. I mean, you COULD have two vagina's on the porch and that would be FINE but then you wouldn't need CI ALIS!

So maybe the tubs ARE filled with Scotch and we don't get to see the big straws they are drinking from! I would think if you wanted to be all sexy about it you would use two people in one tub like my friend Raven says.

Its really strange, ALWAYS two tubs, its like saying

Take this pill but don't get close enough to actually TOUCH THE OTHER PERSON!!!!

Or maybe it means that the erection is so hard it can blast through two TUBS????

Sorry pal you asked for it!!!!
Robyn

[Raven]

12. Well, thanks, you have really confused me. :-)

[Robyn66]

14. You may have hit on one of the unanswerable questions of the universe

like

Who was Casper the friendly ghost before he died?

or

where did Wile E Coyote get all the money to buy all that ACME stuff?

[JBoy]

13. The internet reveals all. According to the agency that developed the ad:

http://search.theledger.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20040425/ZNYT01/404250500/1001/BUSINESS

"For the most part, Grey and Lilly Icos have relied on the bathtub image, now as symbolic for Cialis as the tire swing for Levitra and the blue, diamond-shaped pill for Viagra. "It's associated with all the good things" patients want, Ms. Badillo said, "intimate moments, taking your time, being stress-free." "It isn't a quickie shower," she added. "There is no rush here." That low-key approach - trying, as Toniq's Ms. Swanson put it, to "keep to a certain level of taste" - could help Cialis pass muster from critics of the more explicit ads in the category, even if the Cialis campaign must include that disclaimer about the four-hour side effect. TASTE is why Grey chose his-and-hers bathtubs rather than a shared hot tub. "We don't want to put Cialis that close to the sex act," Mr. Beebe said."

[Robyn66]

16. Ok so let me get this straight-

Two naked people in tubs on an air strip is more tasteful than a couple in a tub together in a private setting? Ah advertising, will you EVER make sense!

[pokerfan]

22. I'm not sure it's a matter of taste. After all, this is Madison Ave. we're talking about...

Cialis is the 36 hour drug, right? I think by moving the couple away from the sex act itself, they're trying to convey a message that this drug allows for a more relaxed approach, i.e. a slow romantic buildup. You don't have to pop a pill and immediately get down to business. That with this drug you can take your time, allow more time for intimacy. Since you've got 36 hours, there's no need to rush things, let it happen when it happens, unlike those other drugs...

It's also more iconic than showing the couple sharing say, a dinner or some other intimate moment. It's an image that's somewhat :wtf: making it all the more memorable thus more effective, whether your consciousness believes it or not.

[Kat45]

18. They "don't want to put Cialis that close to the sex act"?

Isn't the sex act THE POINT of Cialis? Without it, there would be no use for the drug. :wtf:

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

15. And why are these two old-fashioned bathtubs

just sitting OUTSIDE, apparently with no plumbing attached, so you couldn't fill them anyhow? Why would there be a couple of old bathtubs sitting side by side out in a field somewhere, with no plumbing, just waiting for a middle-aged man all gorked out on boner pills to sit in one of them while his wife/girlfriend sits in the other one, with NO WATER because there's NO PIPES for the water, and they just sit there in their tubs and hold hands, and the guy just lets his bodacious boner flap in the breeze?

[Robyn66]

17. when your bathtub doesn't work

take cialis, it will be twice as useless and neither one of you will be able to do anything with them!

[Kali]

19. early tubs didn't have plumbing

you used a bucket and the water was heated on a wood stove

tubs were stored upright when not in use - hey maybe that is symbollic:o :rofl:

[ashling]

20. NO WATER ??

What about the ones in the lake? The could have a pitcher in there like when I wash my hair in the bathtub that I use to pour water over my head. Maybe they filled the tubs with lake water and the guy is using cialis and those little snakelike fish that go up your pee pee are in the lake. What about that?
:shrug:

[pokerfan]

23. What, you haven't sat in a tub in the great outdoors?

I have. There's a hot springs in the River of No Return Wilderness that has such a tub rigged in a way so that the spring water flows into it. Just a simple stopper for the drain. It was extremely relaxing.

[Mad_Dem_X]

25. "...all gorked out on boner pills"

:rofl:

[Connonym]

21. Because sex is dirty

:crazy:

[Robyn66]

24. I CAN see that as a selling point

I think there are a lot of older people who would love to have dirty sex again if they hadn't been able to in a while!!!

[cwydro]

26. Lol!

Thanks for making me laugh out loud!:rofl:

[Generic Brad]

27. Perhaps Cialis makes one as hard as two tubs worth of porcelain

Or it gives one the ability to penetrate two layers of porcelain.

If it's one of those two - neither analogy is working for me. There's nothing titillating about porcelain.

[frogmarch]

28. A waste of two perfectly good

flower planters, if you ask me. Same way as toilets installed in bathrooms are.

:sarcasm:

[Moondog]

29. I don't get the whole woody pill advertising thing.

I have an older friend who just had his prostate removed a couple of months ago. His doc prescribed some woody pills for him to get him going again. Anyway this guy asked me the same question - "do you have any idea what those bathtubs are about in those ads?"

He doesn't have a clue, and neither do I.

[Mr. Ected]

30. I'm reminded of the old Dick Van Dyke show

Rob and Laurie Petrie had separate beds...because the censors wouldn't allow them to sleep together.

Perhaps the folks at Big Pharma were afraid of running off their top demographic because of some kind of overly religious or conservative convictions.

Ridiculous, but many Americans can't handle the truth about their bodies and sex. Malice and violence, on the other hand....

And by the way...if after a 17 hour boner, you still haven't called your doctor or visited the emergency room...you...are...STOOPID.

[ismnotwasm]

31. I think it's supposed to be

A stable couple with the income to fucking AFFORD antique bathtubs overlooking waterfront property. And the getting old guy can 'maintain' an erection again (And personally I'd hope to fucking GOD it doesn't last 4 hours. That disclaimer always reminds me of the 80's and those cocaine cowboys) so it indicates a serene contentment with life in general

I would like to point out, that age is not necessarily the primary problem with Mr. droopy. Things that come along with age and a lifetime of not taking the best care of the body is.