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WTF, Mumsnet is peddling butt plugs

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BellyPork · 15/03/2025 21:02

Just enjoying a quiet Saturday night reading Mumsnet and this pops up!

YANBU: Mumsnetters are not the target market for butt plugs

YABU: I think I might buy one

WTF, Mumsnet is peddling butt plugs
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DalzielOrNoDalzielAndDontPascoe · 18/03/2025 10:12

pimplebum · 15/03/2025 21:36

OP. Oh dear ….
i think Hubble may have a little surprise for you later
at least I hope it’s you he has in mind

Why, is he hoping to use his telescope?

Poutx · 16/03/2025 16:24

happinessischocolate · 16/03/2025 16:16

So it’s just a coincidence all mine are jet2holidays and no butt plugs 🤷‍♀️

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Those will be google ads or similar not the mumsnet content ads

RedCatBlueCatYellowCat · 16/03/2025 16:17

You never know what you will enjoy unless you try it!

happinessischocolate · 16/03/2025 16:16

JaneJeffer · 16/03/2025 15:07

The ads on here are in no way related to browsing history

So it’s just a coincidence all mine are jet2holidays and no butt plugs 🤷‍♀️

Boomer55 · 16/03/2025 16:14

Not my scene, but no one is forced to buy them. 🤷‍♀️

SherlockHomies · 16/03/2025 16:13

JaneJeffer · 16/03/2025 15:07

The ads on here are in no way related to browsing history

I thought that too until last night.

I was looking at houses for sale in a very tiny and unpopular seaside town.

Then when I logged in to MN, the ads on the right of my screen were for houses in that area.

JaneJeffer · 16/03/2025 16:10

Leafy74 · 16/03/2025 16:01

For God's sake OP, unclench.

Is that the tagline?

Doggymummar · 16/03/2025 16:09

The reason I used an adblocker was following a still birth all the baby stuff ads were upsetting. Now we are not allowed adblockers I do find every scroll I take a gamble.

Leafy74 · 16/03/2025 16:04

PoppyBaxter · 16/03/2025 15:59

Do you know how vanilla butt plugs are?!

If it were gimp masks with ball gags, maybe I'd do a double take, although probably not.

They come in flavours?😵‍💫

thehorsesareallidiots · 16/03/2025 16:04

NewMagicWand · 16/03/2025 00:53

A website populated by nearly all women sounds like the ideal place to peddle sex toys.

Yeah, because women hate sex toys, especially vibrators, and there certainly aren't loads and loads and loads of het couples who use toys sometimes.

Leafy74 · 16/03/2025 16:03

NeverDropYourMooncup · 15/03/2025 21:34

It's a Mumsnet ad. Part of their Swears By affiliated ads.

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If there's swearing, try a smaller one.

Leafy74 · 16/03/2025 16:01

For God's sake OP, unclench.

PoppyBaxter · 16/03/2025 15:59

Do you know how vanilla butt plugs are?!

If it were gimp masks with ball gags, maybe I'd do a double take, although probably not.

DontKnowAnythingAnymore · 16/03/2025 15:23

SprinkleOfSunak · 16/03/2025 15:14

I’d much prefer that to an advert for Boden!

Of course you would 🙄

JasmineAllen · 16/03/2025 15:22

ForeverPombear · 15/03/2025 21:10

The ads are down to your browsing history, Mumsnet don't choose the ads.

This is true, all my ads are for Toast, tempting to buy their lovely knitwear 🥺

SprinkleOfSunak · 16/03/2025 15:14

I’d much prefer that to an advert for Boden!

JaneJeffer · 16/03/2025 15:07

The ads on here are in no way related to browsing history

Iloveeverycat · 16/03/2025 14:59

Theunamedcat · 16/03/2025 14:39

Why am I being advertised dummy's literally never searched that my youngest is 12 ffs

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Me too mines 24

tinydynamine · 16/03/2025 14:55

Just wash it thoroughly when you pull it out again with a sucking, plopping noise.

Theunamedcat · 16/03/2025 14:39

ForeverPombear · 15/03/2025 21:10

The ads are down to your browsing history, Mumsnet don't choose the ads.

Why am I being advertised dummy's literally never searched that my youngest is 12 ffs

Helpmetogetoverthis · 16/03/2025 14:35

Moier · 15/03/2025 21:16

Mine show Shoes/ clothes.. because my algorithms have picked up my searches.. so someone in your household have been searching for sex toys.. we all get different adverts.

This picture came up as 'sensitive content' for me but the butt plug ad pic didn't 😁

LauderSyme · 16/03/2025 02:14

Gosh, it's almost as if advertisers expect MN readers to be grown adults.

Dontbeme · 16/03/2025 01:09

FeministUnderTheCatriarchy · 16/03/2025 00:33

Sex toys are a really great and healthy way to enhance self pleasure and also intimacy with a partner... It isn't something to get worked up over.

As PP have said, the Brave browser is great (it also gives you YouTube premium benefits. No ads, can minimise the video and turn your screen off etc).

The ads here are often personalised, but sometimes totally random things I know for a fact I've never even typed into Google. It's not necessarily a self own on OP.

If you're not getting worked up, you are using them wrong.

NewMagicWand · 16/03/2025 00:53

A website populated by nearly all women sounds like the ideal place to peddle sex toys.

FeministUnderTheCatriarchy · 16/03/2025 00:33

Sex toys are a really great and healthy way to enhance self pleasure and also intimacy with a partner... It isn't something to get worked up over.

As PP have said, the Brave browser is great (it also gives you YouTube premium benefits. No ads, can minimise the video and turn your screen off etc).

The ads here are often personalised, but sometimes totally random things I know for a fact I've never even typed into Google. It's not necessarily a self own on OP.