• Your Sperm is Hitler; Your Baby Could Be Barack

  Posted Wednesday, April 15, 2009 9:17 AM | By Jessica Grose
  
  
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  Actually, Willa, there already has been a pro-life ad that uses the same concept as the German condom ad, but for a different purpose. While the condom ad implies that your sperm could turn into Hitler, the pro-life ad, sponsored by CatholicVote.com, is called "Life: Imagine the Potential," and it sends the message that the baby you're aborting could be Barack Obama. Check it out below. Just as the "self-flagellation" in the condom ad is very German, it's so American to say that any child raised by a single mother could be president, as if Barack Obama were not an exceptional person. 
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• Use Condoms or Make Hitler

  Posted Tuesday, April 14, 2009 10:02 AM | By Willa Paskin
  
  
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  A truly astounding series of German condom advertisements are making the rounds this morning—each features a sketch of a sperm made to look like Adolf Hitler, Osama Bin Laden or Mao Zedong. Their not so subtle message being, "Better wrap it up... unless you want to bring evil into the world!" The ads are arresting and hilarious, but the self-flagellation inherent in them strikes me as being distinctly German: I can't imagine many American dudes susceptible to the suggestion that their sperm wear swastikas, or, to use a more purely American parallel, KKK outfits. (Obviously, their sperm have 90 mile an hour fastballs, good looks and a working familiarity with the art of the deal). It's a dark take on procreation, informed by an everyday awareness that people can go really, really bad. Of course, people can go good as well, and I almost expect to see these images re-purposed for an anti-condom or pro-life campaign, with sperm made to look like Jesus, Abe Lincoln or Martin Luther King Jr.
  
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