Need a Holiday Gift for Her? Try a Pap Smear

New CBS ad campaign says skip the jewelry, go for the gyno
By Evann Gastaldo,  Newser Staff
Posted Dec 7, 2009 9:54 AM CST

Just imagine the look on your honey’s face when she opens up your holiday gift to find just what she always wanted…a Pap smear. That’s what CBS is advising you to put at the top of your shopping list this season in a series of bizarre PSAs. While a good idea in theory, “whatever you do, do not buy a Pap smear for your mother, daughter, sister, or anyone else related to you in a familial way, which is enough to put you on the sex offender list in 12 states and the Mariana Islands,” writes Azaria Jagger for Gawker. (More Pap smear stories.)

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