The ad men who created the latest Doritos commercials are demented. The ad shows a man pulling off another man's pants to suck off the cheese residue. The camera then shows the subject's face in orgasmic glee as he exclaims "Doritos!" The same man is then shown sucking the cheese residue off another man's fingers, a clear shorthand for oral sex used to great effect in the original "Hellraiser" by Clive Barker. I haven't seen such an obvious sex joke since Quizno's showed a sub sandwich working up and down in a paper wrapper and an oven ordering "put it in me" with regards to a phallic sandwich. Does anyone remember Harpo Marx sucking the black hose in "A Night at the Opera?" Apparently, eating Doritos is like performing Clinton sex.
Of course, it is entirely possible to go to the other extreme, and find things offensive that really shouldn't offend anyone. I recently saw a comment on the National Catholic Register website where some prude complained about the scene in "Alvin and the Chipmunks" where Simon pretended to eat his brother's bowel movement so Dave wouldn't realize he made it on the couch. If anyone is on such a holiness and purity kick that that offends them, they need to be medicated. In my German class in college, my grad assistant brought in a German children's book that makes the Alvin and the Chipmunks joke look restrained and tasteful in comparison. It is one thing to find oral sex references too much, but a scat joke once in a while is all in good fun.
Of course, it is entirely possible to go to the other extreme, and find things offensive that really shouldn't offend anyone. I recently saw a comment on the National Catholic Register website where some prude complained about the scene in "Alvin and the Chipmunks" where Simon pretended to eat his brother's bowel movement so Dave wouldn't realize he made it on the couch. If anyone is on such a holiness and purity kick that that offends them, they need to be medicated. In my German class in college, my grad assistant brought in a German children's book that makes the Alvin and the Chipmunks joke look restrained and tasteful in comparison. It is one thing to find oral sex references too much, but a scat joke once in a while is all in good fun.
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