That's one of the most disturbing things I've ever seen in my life. Eww. I need a shower.

Awesome.

haha tube snake

Sorry but fake CGI snake/penis-thingies are way less disturbing than actual footage of people suffering violent physical damage.

Oh, man. I totally knew what the ad was for before the end! It's like I win, but at the same time I lose...

That's a fucking awesome ad.
Not in the way that sounds, but because it accurately portrays the creeping ugliness of the trauma in an unsettlingly accurate fashion.
But yeah, I'll shut up and make room for more dick jokes.

I guessed cancer.

I thought it was an awareness ad for people afflicted with prehensile tails.

what a fucking horrible ad. This shit just reminds me of what terrible animated porn the japanese make.

Gross! that just totally ruined hetro-necrophilia for me.

Why is this better than certain NSFW videos of a young brunette star from Melrose Place who ended up in a NYC-located TV show on cable?

@5 -- I'm with you. Knowing what it was for made it that much worse.

I'm already creeped out by what the ad was talking about. Did we need slithering penis-like tentacles to tell us? Christ.

Is there going to be a companion commercial with a giant flesh-colored flower devouring people? It's not just penis-snakes that do the molesting.

Well done, now they need to show a young boy being molested, but how do you make a Catholic Priest into a snakoid?

Finally, something new to masturbate to.

I'd really like to buy a foot or two of that stuff.

You know, just because.

@17: What would you do with TWO feet of it!?

One never knows, does one?

And not only that, I somewhat disagree with the conclusion. Not everyone who has been abused who doesn't get professional counseling ends up FUBAR.

Not everyone who refuses chemo and radiation treatment for cancer dies, but why not do something that might help.

Really fucking creepy until 0:11.

Phew. That was one monster dick.

OK, I'm coming out of lurkerdom to discuss this one. Can you imagine an ad like this ever appearing on American television? No way - the taboo against public confrontation of sexual abuse issues is too strong.

This summer, I attended a presentation by German sex researchers who are working on a treatment for pedophilia. They showed a similar TV spot used for recruitment to their experimental program. It opened with a scene of a 30-ish, average-looking man on a public bus. The soundtrack was his heartbeat. A woman and young boy got on at the next stop, and the man looked furtively at the boy, his heart beat quickening with each glance. The man squirmed in his seat, clearly uncomfortable, but unable to stop looking. Finally the woman and boy exited, and his heart rate returned to normal.

The caption at the end said, "Do you like children more than you should? Call us. We will try to help."

Sadly, there is no truly successful treatment for pedophilia - but at least they have received funding to try to find one and are allowed to recruit in this public way. In contrast, we devote more resources to the punishment/temporary incarceration of perpetrators than prevention of abuse/treatment of victims.

Grumble.

#17 in response to your question, get out a bit more

two feet, all day and night, with great excitement and vigor

I knew exactly what that ad was about the second it started. Well done! Very creepy!

I thought the ad was very well done and real. It would have been better if it ended with a number for victims to call to get help, though, rather than with a plea for money.

Also, it's not clear what these people do with money you send them

in any case, i love germans