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Durex given permission to advertise sex toy on TV
Last updated at 17:22pm on 22.11.06
The advert in which the sex toy is presented as an engagement ring
The first sex toy commercial to be shown on UK terrestrial TV will hit screens this week.
A vibrating penis ring will appear in the 30-second advert on Channel 4 and Five and satellite channels.
Durex, which makes the disposable toy, said the post-11pm broadcast restriction for the commercial was too severe.
It wants permission to show the "tastefully shot" advert after the 9pm watershed.
The commercial shows a couple sitting a dinner table. The man gives the woman what looks like an engagement ring box.
She opens the box, smiles, and says "I do."
Durex managing director Martyn Ward said the company would lobby to get the commercial shown after the 9pm watershed.
"There is nothing rude or crude about the advert, which is tastefully shot, and we feel this restriction is hypocritical, given the images of a sexual nature you quite regularly see on TV at this time of night," he said.
Durex has sold more than 400,000 of the £5.99 disposable vibrating rings since they launched last year.
The commercial will be broadcast after 11pm from this Friday.
Reader views (5)
Here's a sample of the latest views published.
We're shedding our sexual inhibitions. It's about time!
- Billy, Podunk, UK
The mind positively boggles! Wake up England - what the hell is happening to you?
- Linzi, Largo, USA
Anyone choosing mechanical sex (battery included?) is in a sad state indeed. As for advertising it on TV - words fail me!
- Simon Cooper, London, England
Oooer missus!
- Freddie Jack, USA
This is totally pathetic. What a waste of time and money.
- Marion Britton, New York, USA
