Saturday, June 07, 2008

Selling the Concept of Virginity to a Sex Crazed Culture

Ok... I had to laugh when Brad told me this story this afternoon! I even went home to double check the facts on the web to see if was SERIOUS! With his humor, sometimes you just cant tell!

So here's the story... The Christian, abstinence-based purity program, TRUE LOVE WAITS, has marketed their slogan to K-Mart for affordable merchandising options for teens.

I will post some of the catalog photos... this is for real! LOL!

Can you imagine why we might have a hard time selling the concept of virginity to our teens with a message like this?? Seems a bit like a mixed message don't you think!??!

So who wants to rush out and buy this TRUE LOVE WAITS slogan to plaster across your daughter's back side? Since when did butts become billboards? I guess that is a good marketing strategy! It can surely draw an eye of an interested young man... but to sell the concept of purity...?? Come on!!

Sometimes you just have to scratch your head and walk away.... what are we thinking??



Who is the girl supposed to hope gets the message??



Anyone wanna share some thoughts on this one??

Dawn

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

Is this for real? I'm sure little Johnny is going to back down when he gets in her pants and sees that on her THONG. Should read something more realistic like "if you can see this wear a condom or prepare to get married sometime within the next 9 months." I guess that isn't catchy and wouldn't fit on the thong which would mean granny panties which in turn would be a real mood buster huh?

True Love Waits...for what? Until the guy can buy dinner first. Sheesh.

Terrie said...

The ones who do wait don't advertise.

Anonymous said...

Did they not have any better marketing ideas? Humm mabey like a t-shirt, or baseball cap? I would think that if it got down to where the guy actually SEES the THONG it's gone just a LITTLE bit too far, don't you think? I mean come on! Do you think they're going to stop there JUST because of some writting on a thong? NO!

Some where along the line in their think tank...someone had a BRAIN FART!

~Shannon~

Susan said...

Do these marketers even have children of their own?

Anonymous said...

The goofiness of it all just defies logic.
If they guy is seeing that then they aren't thinking about abestineance.
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