Let's talk about sex toys (well, ads for them on Mumsnet), please

Good point about apps Cristina (love the name)

Those durex/dulux products look all right really - very no nonsense, no air of sleaze, and I quite like the fact they are sold in supermarkets (jusy not when my daughter is there sniggering at them).

I think MN could link to stuff like the Durex stuff - that would not offend me one bit. It is the link to what I would see as porn film equipment which I find distasteful. It would offend a lot of people - there are so many people on here who are totally against the porn, and this would seem (to me anyway) I bit near the knuckle.

wmmc - I don't think the problem is with the odd vibrator.

It's more to do with the degrading aspect of some of these sites - always showing a woman who is strapped up with the bondage products, never a bloke etc. Many of them sell porn DVDs, which a lot of MNers would object to.

Nah we're all too old to be targeted by Apple.

They don't sell plastic arseholes wmmc (I'm going to be remembered for that one for ever, so I may as well embrace it. Not the actual plastic arsehole obv)

I'm surprised there aren't more app ads - those I would like to see. I have wasted ££ on rubbish games and it's quite hard to find decent ones. What about ipod accessories? Books? Mooncups? Gardening stuff? Camping equipment? There are hundreds of threads on here asking about all that kind of stuff

It's best not to ask for them like that in Boots, even if you have had a few

"Sexist sex accessories."

Try saying that three times in quick succession after a glass of wine.

Actually, Boots sells Durex vibrators, or did last time I was in there. Oh yes it still does

Not sex toys per se. Sexist sex accessories.

I must have married some very strange men who have no interest in doggy masks nor speculums.

And Boots the Chemist sells sex toys. Are we saying no to them (you'd miss your headache pills then).

I know!

Get branded painkillers to advertise for all the headaches us laydees will get when the speculums and doggy masks are brought forth!

Genius or what?

One off purchases StewieGriffingsMom - people tend not to buy on the spur of the moment and they already have enough exposure generally.

I can take the heat GetOrf - I'll just vanish for two months again, then you'll all miss me enough to welcome me back, while I sit in the background, on my other usernames, sniggering quietly.

Brainsurgeon - you may well be but ask MN how many CAT subscriptions they had by percentage of userbase. I suspect that view is a minority one :)

I think there's an infinite number of other things to be advertising, so it's just unnecessary.Sex toys are advertised widely elsewhere on the net. A proportion of people will be offended for a variety of reasons.

I would say give it a miss and save yourselves a headache.

Oh sorry x posts. Well sort of. I still hope MN don't have to do advertise things we're not happy with. I'd rather pay a subscription!

chocolate, I do see your point but as I said as much as I want to keep an open mind it just doesn't feel right.

And I would hope MN is not that desperate for cash - am I being naive to imagine a lot of companies interested in advertising here

WMMC you know that you are going to be villified forever for the use of the emoticon next to the phrase 'killing kittens'

Heartless

Sorry that was flippant, allow me to elaborate. The online spend has reduced greatly following the recession and Mumsnet's branding appears to have changed too. Some of it not for the better in my opinion. Can you conceive of for example, Apple computers, advertising here. Nope, nor me. The adverts are based around home/food/holidays. Advertisers see Mumsnet as a repository of homemakers, not individual's with personal needs.

At least banks are non-discriminatory in their general horridness. I don't think they check the kittens' gender before they cluster bomb them.

Really? You really don't think MNHQ need the money?

I'm guessing there are kitten now and then in war zones but banks are actually not that fussy about ethics in the main, which was the point I was making.

Disclaimer : I like kittens.

personally i dont want to see this on mumsnet at all but if you do put them on can it be time controlled so the ads wouldnt show before 9pm or something, do not really want my dc to come past & see such adverts

I'm not all that excited about the sexism aspect- it's nothing new. I'm just saying that making the ads 18+ won't address all the reasons people have brought up to say they find the idea unpleasant.

I dont want to see sex shop ads on mumsnet, personally, for lots of reasons already mentioned.