RunningAHEAD - Topic: Anybody else notice this?

mb197314

posted: 9/11/2008 at 2:06 PM

Why is there an ad for an adult product/novelty/etc. website in the back of this month's Runner's World? Are they that hard up (pardon the pun) for advertising dollars?

xor

posted: 9/11/2008 at 2:10 PM

Quote from mb197314 on 9/11/2008 at 2:06 PM:

Why is there an ad for an adult product/novelty/etc. website in the back of this month's Runner's World? Are they that hard up (pardon the pun) for advertising dollars?

Heh. I've seen that before. I dunno about hard up. It is weird. A couple months back, Running Times had an article about sex before running. A whole bunch of people wrote them about that and they apologized. I did think it was a strange topic for RT. BUT. Last month's Trail Runner had a two page article devoted to how to pee in your pants while running. Swear to God. Give me the ads and articles about sex instead. GAH. (two things: 1) why does it take two pages to explain something we all know how to do but choose not to do? and 2) hard up for ad dollars? They were clearly hard up for CONTENT)

dallas

Hoodoo Guru

posted: 9/11/2008 at 2:21 PM

The ad has been there for a few months. Are you offended by it? Or do you just think it odd that adult novelties are sold in a running magazine?

The tangents are moot.

mb197314

posted: 9/11/2008 at 2:23 PM

I am not necessarily offended. I just think there are more appropriate places for that type of ad. And the back of Runner's World just doesn't seem, to me at least, to be one of those places.

milerBonnie

posted: 9/12/2008 at 9:22 AM

Quote from xor on 9/11/2008 at 2:10 PM:

BUT. Last month's Trail Runner had a two page article devoted to how to pee in your pants while running. Swear to God. Give me the ads and articles about sex instead. GAH. (two things: 1) why does it take two pages to explain something we all know how to do but choose not to do? and 2) hard up for ad dollars? They were clearly hard up for CONTENT)

I'm so glad that I'm not the only one who thought this article was weird! I mean couldn't they have used the space to talk about a new trail or something? Geez. I get more entertainment and value reading messages on runningAhead than that crap.

slaptear2

De-slacking in progress

posted: 9/12/2008 at 5:56 PM

SATISFACTION GUARANTEED Big grin

started running @ age 48 [lost 70#+, quit a 30 year pack/day habit>> ran HM] Ran a few years then quit. Gained 70#+ back and smoking like before. Time to get healthy again @ 52 years over with the C25K program and beyond again. RE-start date 1-13-14

modal

posted: 9/12/2008 at 6:15 PM
modified: 9/12/2008 at 6:15 PM

Quote from mb197314 on 9/11/2008 at 2:06 PM:

Why is there an ad for an adult product/novelty/etc. website in the back of this month's Runner's World? Are they that hard up (pardon the pun) for advertising dollars?

You speak of the ED ad? HTFU tabs and capsules

Vim

slaptear2

De-slacking in progress

posted: 9/12/2008 at 6:27 PM

Quote from modal on 9/12/2008 at 6:15 PM:

You speak of the ED ad? HTFU tabs and capsules

no the big adam/eve site

started running @ age 48 [lost 70#+, quit a 30 year pack/day habit>> ran HM] Ran a few years then quit. Gained 70#+ back and smoking like before. Time to get healthy again @ 52 years over with the C25K program and beyond again. RE-start date 1-13-14

modal

posted: 9/12/2008 at 6:33 PM

Quote from xor on 9/11/2008 at 2:10 PM:

Last month's Trail Runner had a two page article devoted to how to pee in your pants while running. Swear to God.

2 pages on technique?

Vim

seeEricaRun

Awesome

posted: 9/16/2008 at 6:27 PM

Quote from modal on 9/12/2008 at 6:33 PM:

2 pages on technique?

Seriously. Can't most three year-olds do this?

zoom-zoom

rectumdamnnearkilledem

posted: 9/16/2008 at 6:32 PM

Quote from mb197314 on 9/11/2008 at 2:23 PM:

I am not necessarily offended. I just think there are more appropriate places for that type of ad. And the back of Runner's World just doesn't seem, to me at least, to be one of those places.

Everybody has sex. Sex sells. Ad space brings in big $$ to a magazine...where's the confusion? Confused

Getting the wind knocked out of you is the only way to

remind your lungs how much they like the taste of air.

~ Sarah Kay

pitrunner

posted: 9/16/2008 at 6:33 PM

Quote from mb197314 on 9/11/2008 at 2:06 PM:

Why is there an ad for an adult product/novelty/etc. website in the back of this month's Runner's World? Are they that hard up (pardon the pun) for advertising dollars?

Not just an ad, but a special discount for runners! Not that I paid close attention or anything... But I agree, very strange indeed.

veggies on the run

anutherfinemess

posted: 9/16/2008 at 8:06 PM

I didn't notice that at all. I was, however, deeply offended by an ad for running shoes in the back of last month's Hustler. I mean, seriously, by the time you get to the back of the magazine you've go no energy left to run.

And who am I anyway?
Just another fat jogger, evidently.

Ennay

A Saucy Wench

posted: 9/16/2008 at 8:24 PM

*snort* - good one finemess So in the name of research I looked at the other magazines in our house. While runners are apparently a target for "novelty" products - a market that it is assumed you usually get some, have access to some, or at least willing to fly solo, the back of Car & Driver has zero ads for novelty products. What it does have ads for are : male enhancement (2) ads. Usually aimed at guys who think if they do that they will get some "pheremones" - "I may be a loser but if I wear this I will get some" and Viagra So which would you rather be a runner or a car guy?

I have become Death, the destroyer of electronic gadgets

"When I got too tired to run anymore I just pretended I wasnt tired and kept running anyway" - dd, age 7

xor

posted: 9/16/2008 at 8:26 PM

Dare I ask what's in the back of the cycling mags?

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