Cable nets find vibrator ad quite pleasurable

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Here's something refreshing for the ad business—a commercial you'd expect to provoke some outrage but that's been greeted with a collective shrug. The spot, by Sullivan Productions, is for a new Trojan vibrator called Tri-Phoria, and as The New York Times reports, it's found its way beyond the cloistered late-night commercial pods and into early-evening slots and even daytime cable TV on networks like Comedy Central, Spike and VH1. Not a single network has rejected it outright.

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