Virgin Money Wants You to See Old People Having Sex

An Australian home-loan lender, Virgin Money Home Loans, launched a very, shall we say, sexy ad campaign. But then again, that depends on who you are. Seeing two people resembling my grandparents going at it doesn’t do it for me. I’m guessing it doesn’t do it for my grandparents either so I’m going to change my adjective to shocking, not sexy.

Either way, I’m a sucker for a unique advertising campaign and this one definitely fits the bill. Hide your eyes as you scroll, this is about to get ugly.

And in case you’re wondering, this is the same Virgin that sells CDs. Apparently Virgin is a worldwide conglomerate selling just about anything between airline travel to health care. See for yourself at www.virgin.com.

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What do you think? Please leave your comments! :)

7 Responses to “Virgin Money Wants You to See Old People Having Sex”

# tee-plateon 06 Sep 2007 at 1:37 pm

i LOVE virgin. they’re always doing cool things. i think they started that whole “send them a phone number you don’t want to drunk dial before you go out that night” thing. genius! and british. god love em.
# SarcasmAboundson 06 Sep 2007 at 2:56 pm

It would have been more realistic if “The Wheel of Fourtue” was on in the background. I need counseling now.

SA
# SarcasmAboundson 06 Sep 2007 at 2:57 pm

Er “Fortune”, that is. :0
# Saraon 06 Sep 2007 at 6:05 pm

I didn’t know that about Virgin. I also couldn’t agree more about the “Wheel of Fortune”
# Anonymouson 06 Dec 2007 at 1:36 pm

those pictures are sagging lol
# ashleyon 13 Dec 2007 at 5:39 pm

i’m a little troubled by the idea of these people as ugly and i don’t think that all elderly people don’t want to see themselves represented like this in the media. just as with any age bracket, there are people that like to see naked representations of themselves, don’t you think? i find these pictures really beautiful and i think we’re troubled by them because we don’t see them often enough. what’s the difference between these shots and shots of “attractive” twenty-somethings? only that we’re taught to think the twenty-somethings (which i happen to be) are the hot ones. what do the rest of you think?
# Saraon 13 Dec 2007 at 7:40 pm

I agree that we’re shocked mostly because its a rare sight. The other part is that us young consumers don’t sexualize our grandparents, ever. Its not to say they aren’t sexual, but we intentionally ignore that fact.