Impotence-cure advert in Iran angers hard-liners

Al Bawaba, the Middle East Gateway ^ | July 15 2002

[knighthawk]

An advertisement for a "miracle" impotence cure depicting a man vying to raise the Tower of Pisa has left hard-liners in Tehran raging after it ran in the main official daily Iran over the weekend.

"The publication of this advertisement and especially the drawing are immoral acts", the arch-conservative Jomhouri-Eslami newspaper strongly complained on Sunday.

The paper asked how Iran, which is run by the official IRNA news agency, "dares to publish this depraved and immoral advertisement that is an attack on all modesty."

Saturday's ad by a health-ministry-approved drugs company claimed to offer a "miracle" treatment for impotence with a "98 percent success rate." The treatment was by a "brand new method" using a machine, it said without providing further detail.

[Senator Pardek]

I now know the significance of the two stones Galileo dropped from there.

[Aliska]

:-). He needed to make an erection correction.

[Dakmar]

I swear that's not mine, baby.

[PJ-Comix]

They would really go nuts over in Iran if they had broadcast the infomercial for Extenze. This infomercial stars Ron "Hedgehog" Jeremy and Kim Chambers. Adding to the bizarreness of this infomercial is the appearance of the husband of Kim Chambers, Scott Stiles, also a porn star, who is billed as having a physics degree and being a rocket scientist prior to entering porn.

[cmsgop]

LOL! I woke up to that ad in the middle of the night when I left the TV on!

[Illbay]

We'd hear complaints if that were published in a U.S. paper, too.

[Illbay]

If this were representing Clinton, you'd have to take the photo from the other side, and put a "kink" in it at about the third story.

[Aliska]

Yes, there were several kinks in that story until the truth came out.

[Illbay]

Did it COME out, or did it sort of pop out unexpectedly?

[Billthedrill]

The treatment was by a "brand new method" using a machine, it said without providing further detail.

"Hey, it'sa Senor Drill again - c'mon, Luigi, we gonna need a crane...naw, Luigi, not'a the big one, a little one. A reeeeal little one..."

[Aliska]

It kinda leaked out.

[PsyOp]

After denouncing the ad, government hard-liners wanted to know how to order the drug...

[BMCDA]

They don't want the competion?

Of course, what else ;-D

[PJ-Comix]

Everybody in that Infomercial (including the owner of Extenze) is so sleazy that it is a wonder that they even get any sales. Good comedy relief from the Hedgehog however.

[NeoCaveman]

Good comedy relief from the Hedgehog however.

Ping

[cmsgop]

I met Ron a couple of times, he was a very nice guy. That infomercial was a crack up though..

[PJ-Comix]

I met Ron a couple of times, he was a very nice guy. That infomercial was a crack up though..

Is there anybody out there stupid enough to buy Extenze?

[neutrino]

The paper asked how Iran, which is run by the official IRNA news agency, "dares to publish this depraved and immoral advertisement that is an attack on all modesty."

Let's see now...the same fine mo-slimes who like to gang rape Australian and Dutch girls speak of modesty. Riiiight.

[San Jacinto]

Now don't be so tough on the Mullahs....Deep down they're just a bunch of old softies.

[sheik yerbouty]

Well, they are impotentates. The mullahs think theyse impotent. If youse impotent, ya gota look impotent. That's why they wear the diapers on the wrong end.