# Australian tampon ad shows woman playing with her beaver **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 16, 2008, 3:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/australian-tampon-ad-shows-woman-playing-with-her-beaver/441522 "2008-03-16T03:21:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 18\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![astro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9dc877/32.png) [@astro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astro)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2008, 3:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/australian-tampon-ad-shows-woman-playing-with-her-beaver/441522/1 "2008-03-16T03:21:31Z")
[Yes it does!](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kMIUOiMeDH4) ---
**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2008, 3:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/australian-tampon-ad-shows-woman-playing-with-her-beaver/441522/2 "2008-03-16T03:28:38Z")
You know, I figured that it was going to be what it, in fact, was, but even so, I gotta admit that’s a pretty ballsy (ovary?) ad. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2008, 3:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/australian-tampon-ad-shows-woman-playing-with-her-beaver/441522/3 "2008-03-16T03:45:10Z")
Shit, did you see the one about the woman squeezing ping pong balls out of her vagina with ever more impressive results? Laugh? I thought I’d surely die. Whe seemed determined on orbital trajectory… ---
**Author:** ![mhendo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mhendo/32/3159_2.png) [@mhendo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mhendo)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2008, 5:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/australian-tampon-ad-shows-woman-playing-with-her-beaver/441522/4 "2008-03-16T05:22:47Z")
[QUOTE=Tuckerfan] You know, I figured that it was going to be what it, in fact, was, but even so, I gotta admit that’s a pretty ballsy (ovary?) ad. [/QUOTE] It would be in America, where the prudes run the show in matters of network and basic cable television. Most other western countries, it’s amusing but not particularly daring or radical. ---
**Author:** ![Ice\_Wolf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/dfb087/32.png) [@Ice\_Wolf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ice_Wolf)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2008, 5:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/australian-tampon-ad-shows-woman-playing-with-her-beaver/441522/5 "2008-03-16T05:26:21Z")
Just goes to show how far American usage is installing itself in the culture of other countries, seeing as there are no wild beaver in Australia. And yes, 'tis a clever ad. ---
**Author:** ![Raguleader](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/258eb7/32.png) [@Raguleader](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Raguleader)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2008, 5:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/australian-tampon-ad-shows-woman-playing-with-her-beaver/441522/6 "2008-03-16T05:53:22Z")
Reminds me of [this](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KvtPuWtmNPM) commercial for Molson Canadian (this commercial, of course, has little to do with either Australians or tampons) ---
**Author:** ![Cazzle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cazzle/32/75_2.png) [@Cazzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cazzle)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2008, 10:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/australian-tampon-ad-shows-woman-playing-with-her-beaver/441522/7 "2008-03-16T10:03:35Z")
[QUOTE=mhendo] It would be in America, where the prudes run the show in matters of network and basic cable television. Most other western countries, it’s amusing but not particularly daring or radical. [/QUOTE] It’s raising eyebrows. I hadn’t seen the ad on TV, my first exposure to it was via a webnews article about the number of complaints it had generated. [http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,23358686-421,00.html](http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,23358686-421,00.html) ---
**Author:** ![ultrafilter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/3d9bf3/32.png) [@ultrafilter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ultrafilter)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2008, 2:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/australian-tampon-ad-shows-woman-playing-with-her-beaver/441522/8 "2008-03-16T14:53:03Z")
[An Australian underwear commercial](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QXZqGI9zW0Y&feature=related) ---
**Author:** ![Sierra\_Indigo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f0a364/32.png) [@Sierra\_Indigo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sierra_Indigo)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2008, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/australian-tampon-ad-shows-woman-playing-with-her-beaver/441522/9 "2008-03-16T19:24:46Z")
[QUOTE=Cazzle] It’s raising eyebrows. I hadn’t seen the ad on TV, my first exposure to it was via a webnews article about the number of complaints it had generated. [http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,23358686-421,00.html](http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,23358686-421,00.html) [/QUOTE] It mostly seems to be appearing on Foxtel at the moment. Haven’t seen it on Free to Air, but then I don’t watch those channels very frequently. ---
**Author:** ![mhendo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mhendo/32/3159_2.png) [@mhendo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mhendo)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2008, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/australian-tampon-ad-shows-woman-playing-with-her-beaver/441522/10 "2008-03-16T19:51:20Z")
[QUOTE=Cazzle] It’s raising eyebrows. I hadn’t seen the ad on TV, my first exposure to it was via a webnews article about the number of complaints it had generated. [http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,23358686-421,00.html](http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,23358686-421,00.html) [/QUOTE] I’m not arguing that Australia doesn’t have its share of prudes. An advertisement like this will _always_ get some complaints. But in the US, there would probably be nationally-prominent conservative organizations all over it, denouncing it as another sign of civilization’s decline. And if it aired on network TV, it wouldn’t surprise me if the FCC had something to say about it as well. There are lunatics everywhere, but in some parts of American culture, they pretty much run the asylum. ---
**Author:** ![Grrr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grrr/32/146_2.png) [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2008, 11:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/australian-tampon-ad-shows-woman-playing-with-her-beaver/441522/11 "2008-03-16T23:03:29Z")
She needs to shave that thing. ---
**Author:** ![wolf\_meister](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolf_meister/32/15202_2.png) [@wolf\_meister](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolf_meister)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2008, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/australian-tampon-ad-shows-woman-playing-with-her-beaver/441522/12 "2008-03-17T03:03:43Z")
This is the 12th posting to this thread - but the 997th viewing. 😃 Gee, I never knew the SDMB was so interested in … advertising. ---
**Author:** ![Princhester](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3e96dc/32.png) [@Princhester](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Princhester)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2008, 3:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/australian-tampon-ad-shows-woman-playing-with-her-beaver/441522/13 "2008-03-17T03:22:05Z")
[QUOTE=elucidator] Shit, did you see the one about the woman squeezing ping pong balls out of her vagina with ever more impressive results? Laugh? I thought I’d surely die. Whe seemed determined on orbital trajectory… [/QUOTE] How do you know they were coming out of her vagina? ---
**Author:** ![GreedySmurf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a698b9/32.png) [@GreedySmurf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GreedySmurf)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2008, 3:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/australian-tampon-ad-shows-woman-playing-with-her-beaver/441522/14 "2008-03-17T03:56:36Z")
Saw this ad for the first time yesterday. As it was playing, I was sitting there thinking what the hell will this be advertising? Good ad. ---
**Author:** ![GomiBoy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b2d939/32.png) [@GomiBoy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GomiBoy)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2008, 8:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/australian-tampon-ad-shows-woman-playing-with-her-beaver/441522/15 "2008-03-17T08:05:01Z")
Brilliant. And let the prudes RIOT for all I care 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Girl\_From\_Mars](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/3da27b/32.png) [@Girl\_From\_Mars](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Girl_From_Mars)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2008, 11:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/australian-tampon-ad-shows-woman-playing-with-her-beaver/441522/16 "2008-03-17T11:10:14Z")
We currently have an erectile disfunction ad showing here where men play the piano with their penises, so I think the people complaining about this ad need to get some perspective. Beaver is a feminist issue! 🙂 Although I do think it’s a little creepy when the guys on the beach stop and leer at her beaver… ---
**Author:** ![TheLoadedDog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/35a633/32.png) [@TheLoadedDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheLoadedDog)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2008, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/australian-tampon-ad-shows-woman-playing-with-her-beaver/441522/17 "2008-03-17T19:49:34Z")
[QUOTE=Girl From Mars] We currently have an erectile disfunction ad showing here where men play the piano with their penises… [/QUOTE] [And here it is!](http://youtube.com/watch?v=pZ0WIozG6dQ) ---
**Author:** ![TheLoadedDog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/35a633/32.png) [@TheLoadedDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheLoadedDog)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2008, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/australian-tampon-ad-shows-woman-playing-with-her-beaver/441522/18 "2008-03-17T19:56:21Z")
Just to add: the above ad is _reasonably_ work safe. If your boss doesn’t mind you goofing off watching _any_ Youtube, he or she probably won’t mind this. If you’re volunteering for your local Baptist community, you might want to think twice though.