Canada's obsessed with condoms

Hey! It's me, Willa again! I'm here today to talk about the difference between the openness about sex in America vs Canada

Here in America, even on channels that aren’t for kids, the ads are fairly acceptable. The commercials are for Bendaroos* or movies coming out soon, but rarely inappropriate ads.

Okay, occasionally there’s that pesky make-your-penis-bigger add for “natural male enhancement” but that’s pretty much it.

Where as in Canada, almost EVERY ad is sexual. There are TONS of condom commercials, and “experience enhancers” which are just NOT ads that should be allowed on the family channel! I mean, come on! Trojan Naked Sensations*?! Any one here seen that ad? It’s so not something that should’ve been put on the family channel!

I guess Canadians are just a little more open to sex? They’re just a little less ashamed. But maybe that’s not a good thing? I mean-I REALLY don’t need to see that Trojan Naked Sensations add EVER again! And what if some little kid is watching Hannah Montana* on the Family Channel, and all of a sudden that ad comes up?! Then the poor mom’s gonna have to teach her kid some scary stuff too early in life!

Seriously though, there’s a really big difference between Canada and America when it comes to openness about sex.

Near our French class, there’s a whole condom store! An entire store selling nothing but different kinds of condoms!

And don’t even get me started on their logo…

Anyway, my point is, Canada is much more open about sex then America, but I personally don’t think that’s a good thing. Public channels on TV are meant to be viewable to the whole public, and honestly, having a whole store sell nothing but different condoms is just wrong.

So I guess it’s good I get a month here in good ol’ America! Even though it’s the home of crazy republicans, Christian nut jobs, and a lot of right-wing loonies, it’s also the home of cencored TV :) 

*google is your friend

Tentation

Last week i saw tentation( the twilight saga: New Moon in french). The movie was great and i understood most of it, mostly because it was my 3rd time seeing the movie and I've read the book 8 times, heehee. There were a few differences besides the language that i thought it'd be fun to point out. One of the differences is they had way more commercials/previews than we do in Vermont, the 7:30 showing literally started at 8:00! Another difference was that in Vermont it was a bunch of teenage girls, and family's with teenage girls, and boyfriends with teenage girls, but in Montreal it was adults! Not just adults but like 30 and 40 year old's! and there were only like 4 kids! The last difference is that in Montreal when Bella was drowning and other sweet scenes, they laughed! But one of the end scene's was pretty sappy so I don't care about that one so much i care that they laughed at the one's that weren't sappy! But after all these differences one thing stayed the same, they all sighed when Jacob took his shirt off. :) So that's the difference's and whats the same in tentation and new moon.