TV commercials not ready for prime time

The proliferation of male enhancement commercials on TV recently leads me to believe we are a nation of overstressed men who can't lift the garage door anymore. I don't really care, since I was born without the part in question and raising the bar was never an issue personally. What I do care about is my kids being exposed to these commercials during prime time and on the weekends. No longer are "adult" commercials relegated to late, late night viewing.

What do you do when your nine year old daughter sees a Cialis commercial on TV and the following conversation ensues,
"Mommy, what's an erection?"

"Uh...it's when a man's, you know, wing-wing, uh, gets bigger."

"Mommy, it's not a wing-wing, it's a penis! Why would a man want his penis to get big?"

Lots of answers race through your mind when faced with that question:

"It makes him happy."

"It's a guy thing"

"Ask your father!"

I hate to admit, I took the easy way out..."Just because! Hey, let's see if Hannah Montana is on right now!"

My son seems slightly amused by the whole male enhancement thing. His reaction to one of those "natural" male enhancement commercials featuring Bob as an insanely happy Santa and his incredibly giddy wife, is typical for a 13 year old. "Hehe! He said 'sackful of joy'."

Now I am by no means a prude and I intend to have "the talk" with my kids one of these days when my calendar clears. (February 2011 looks good right now.) I just don't appreciate all of this talk of "erections lasting more than four hours" being thrust upon me, demanding explanations from two curious kids.

I will tell them such intimacy is truly a gift from God that you share with your spouse. I promise to use the correct terminology. (Wing wing and ching ching are off the vocab list.) I will tell them...honest! Or as one commercial says, "When the time is right."