New Microsoft Ad Features Girl's Orgasm
A strange new online ad for Microsoft's Hotmail e-mail service features a the sound of a girl's orgasm. The ad shows a teenager asking her dad if she can stay out late on a date. The dad agrees on a 10:30 curfew, then answers the door. When he sees a cigarette-smoking punk at the door to take out his daughter, the video flashes to a half-second scene showing a car parked in some disreputable section of town, bouncing up and down, with the SOUND OF THE GIRL'S ORGASM "coming" from inside the car (apparently this is what the dad imagines will happen if his daughter stays out until 10:30). So then the dad says: "9 o'clock!" All this leads up to the pun that Hotmail "helps identify suspicious mail."
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Since when does a single gasp equal an orgasm? You haven't been with any noisy women apparently.
The ads are silly and sexist. Quality of the ads = quality of the products. Juvenile.
Hmmm... looks like that particular ad is already gone, replaced with a "hot" mail delivery guy in an office. That was fast!
Oops, sorry. My mistake. What a bone-head! :)
Don't you think you might be being a bit of a prude by blogging this? And the noise made hardly sounds like an orgasm, merely a groan.
If yah wanna get technical that is...
I'm with ya Mike. That was definitely a short sound from an obviously longer moan.
Was it an orgasm, or merely a gasp of pleasure (associated somehow with the rocking car), was it a real orgasm or a fake one, was it...
I think you're missing the point. Microsoft advertising has always been straight-laced, family-oriented G-rated fare, has it not?
Regardless of whether this blogger knows what an orgasm sounds like or is a prude or not, misses the point.
Microsoft has done something it hasn't done before. Can we agree on that? Does the world's largest software company doing something it's never done before make something blogworthy? Let's argue about that.
Microsoft is using teenage sex -- not the idea of teen sexuality, but the raw act of car, rockin', girl yelping, sweaty passionate shagging -- to sell e-mail! Is that different? Is that blogworthy? Let's argue about that. -Mike
Good ol' Microsoft bashing. A single moan turns into an orgasm.
Again, aren't we splitting hairs here? A girl in a rocking car moaning is featured in the ad. Whether she's actually achieved orgasm in that half-second or will do so 10 seconds hence is irrelevant. The point is teen sex in Microsoft advertising.
I'm not criticising it, either. I'm pointing it out. It's different, no? Microsoft spends $400 million every year on advertising. If anyone can show me another Microsoft ad that implies sexual extacy, I'll give you a free subscription to my e-mail newsletter. ; ) -Mike
By the way, I was joking about the free subscription -- my newsletter is free to everybody.
However, let's make this interesting. If ANYONE can point to an ad from ANY Fortune 500 company depicting a minor emitting orgasmic (or pre-orgasmic) moans of pleasure during intercourse, I'll mention it with your name in my newsletter (which has 45,000 subscribers).
I don't think you'll find such an ad. I think Microsoft is breaking new ground here.
-Mike
"If anyone can show me another Microsoft ad that implies sexual extacy,"
Whilst not ecstasy, Microsoft did release a more... adult one for Office XP in Germany.
See here: http://www.ifilm.com/video/2849234
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Things really are getting desperate for someone who reacts like that (well its quite close) to a single gasp in an ad by Microsoft.
What I want to see is an ad with the sounds a man makes when he has an orgasm. You know...grunting and howling. How about an ad that shows a man taking a shower washing his hair (like the one where the chick takes a shower and goes ape-nuts over the shampoo), and then the man is grunting and howling like he is having an orgasm, and then yells out to his wife "What did you say the name of this shampoo is? ....oh wouldn't that be lovely?
And by the way, Mike is totally right, this is not very Microsoft to show anything "sexual" in their ads. Where did they "come" up with the idea for this? And why in our society has it become okay to hear a woman have/fake and orgasm on tv, but not yet for a man?
This ad from a while ago has a pretty sexual message too. You can't hear a girl screaming but it's still pretty edgy for Microsoft.
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