Alan Cumming Shows You Suggestive Things to Do Besides Sex in Ad Targeting the FDA

Rips new abstinence rule for gay men donating blood

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Saatchi & Saatchi uses suggestive visual humor, and deadpan delivery from actor Alan Cumming, to skewer the Food and Drug Adminstration's rules around donating blood.

At issue is a recent revision in the FDA's regulations that allows gay and bisexual men to give blood, but only if they have haven't had sex for a year. (They were previously barred entirely, based on concerns about exposure to HIV.)

With tongue firmly in cheek, Cumming introduces a series of eight nonsexual activities that are "guaranteed to make your year without sex fly by."

Among them: Apply your manual dexterity to packing powder into a Civil War musket; thrust your hips into yoga; and polish your trophies.

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