We are transfixed with modern life, enchanted, mesmerized, teased with virtual sensuality, and then we're taken to the commercial break.  Our guard down, messages are pushed.  "Here's all the stuff you need for modern life."  The commercial breaks are designed to be just enough, what can be gotten away with, before returning to that which holds our attention.  Back to the Tour, the rainy mountain stage, the Alps' scenes, a replacement offered to city dwellers who would rather be out somewhere in the elements themselves.

Sensuality, of course, cannot be separated out of life, nor is it a bad thing.  It leads us to good health and good decisions, puts us at comfort with the body and its functions, so that the spirit might live a happy life.  Substitutes are offered to us, in this 'advertised world,' as if there could be a substitute for holy matrimony and the realization of a full spiritual life.  We get preyed upon with outside enticements, when happiness is built from within, from simple things.