Pornhub's Ad Implores You to Stop Using Household Objects as Sex Toys

'Not My Job' from BETC Paris promotes the adult site's products as quarantine has led some to get creative

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Hey, we all get bored. And a little lonely.

But that’s no reason to take your sexual frustrations out on the innocent objects scattered throughout your home. There are devices specially created for such purposes, and they’d be happy to fill this niche in your life. Or at least less likely to harm you in the process.

In a fun and safe-for-work but mildly disconcerting new ad for Pornhub Toys, agency BETC Paris (Adweek’s International Agency of the Year for 2019) animates objects ranging from an electric toothbrush and shower head to a washing machine and tube socks as they sing their wishes not to be used for masturbatory purposes.

Oh and it’s all set to the tune of Bloodhound Gang’s 1999 banger “The Bad Touch” (aka “You and me, baby, ain’t nothin’ but mammals, so let’s do it like they do on the Discovery Channel”).

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