BY DREW WATERS

Every web site that I visit seems to be blitzed by Vimax Penis Enlargement ads. Women’s faces looking with shock, surprise and horror in the direction of my crotch. Facial expressions designed to make me feel insecure about the size of my penis. LOL … The ads promise me, at least, an additional 4 inches.

One assumes that Vimax, the company behind the penis pills, must be throwing bags of money at a huge advertising campaigns with Google and Yahoo, but it turns out that most of these ads are malware that have taken over your browser and are displaying their wares. (If you have the Firefox browser you can go to the Mozilla web site and download the NoScript add-on to kill these ads.)

Dr. Michael Donnenberg of the University of Maryland describes the effect of penis enlargement pills and creams as providing zero results. “There may however be a placebo effect i.e. a psychological effect making the user think he has a larger penis, and increasing his confidence, when in fact there is no actual change to his penis size.”

A review, conducted by Drs. Kevan Wylie and Ian Eardley of the Porterback Clinic and Royal Hallamshire Hospital in Sheffield and St. James’ Hospital in Leeds, United Kingdom, respectively, combines results from more than 50 international research projects into penis size and small penis syndrome (SPS) conducted since 1942. It shows similar poor results.

“The issue of attractiveness to women is complex, but most data suggest that penile size is much lower down the list of priorities for women than such issues as a man’s personality and external grooming,” the researchers write.

So the Vimax ads in the end may just provide cultural entertainment. Another company trying to profit from a widely held male cultural myth that size matters most.

Here’s a collection of some of the ads appearing in my browser window in the past few months:

When it comes to cutesy and quirky, Japanese TV ads go where no one has gone before.
A father caterpillar and his son try to get the best tea leaves at the top of a tea plant.

An ad billboard has caused outrage and panic in a Chinese city by featuring what appears to be a man hanging from a rope.

The advertisement, on top of the Yinji Shopping Mall in Zhengzhou, features a mannequin hanging from the top of the billboard.

In a reference to the global financial crisis, it reads: “It’s better to invest money here than put it into the stock market.”

But residents thought it was a real suicide and say children as young as eight were terrified, reports Oriental Today.

After receiving complaints, the local industry and trade bureau has now stepped in and taken down the mannequin.

“Without the hanging man, it’s really not that shocking,” said the deputy director of the bureau.

Jiang Chengpu, the creative director behind the ad, says the aim was to catch people’s attention, not to terrify them.

“We are making fun of the depressing stock market here. And the place the mannequin is hanging is right next to the stock index line,” he said.

Source: Ananova Link  Filed under Weird Advertisements