Veggies out of luck in sex-enhancement ads

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Click here to see the banana and eggplant versions. McCann Erickson in Bangkok makes a bid for naughtiest campaign of the year with three loopy print ads promoting a "sexual efficiency ring." Scantily clad women appear with human-sized bananas, eggplants and cucumbers, who are hiding as the husband/boyfriend comes home. The cucumber is lurking in the shower, perhaps because you should always wash your vegetables before, um … eating them, I guess? And is that banana sweating? I don't think I want to know! The veggies won't be getting any more action now that the guys are using Fowin to enhance their erotic performances.

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