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

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HelenMumsnet · 07/10/2011 11:51

Hello.

We'd like your opinions, please, on Mumsnet taking ads for stores/sites that sell sex toys.

We accepted a campaign for one site like this earlier in the week - and then removed it after receiving a fair number of complaints.

So, what we need to know now is...

Do you mind ads for stores/sites that sell sex toys - generally speaking?

Does it matter which stores/sites these are? And what kind of stuff they're selling?

And, if you wouldn't run a mile from these kinds of ads, would you be happy to see them all over Mumsnet (with the obvious exception of our more sensitive topics such as Bereavement, Special Needs, Relationships, Miscarriage etc)? Or would you prefer them only to be in Chat?

Do please post and let us know your thoughts.

Thanks MNHQ

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GetOrfMo1Land · 07/10/2011 15:17

It was very funny when you said howls, brain, beacuse I had just posted a picture of a vixen mask Grin

Hullygully · 07/10/2011 15:16

Under their "philosophy" they say:

The Coco de Mer seed germinates from both a male and female plant. Whereas the seed so closely resembles the female form, the male plant has a stamen, which looks strangely like a penis. A huge penis at that, and one that smells of sticky sweet honey.

nom nom

GetOrfMo1Land · 07/10/2011 15:16

haha at competitive horror.

We are like a bunch of errant schoolgirls sometimes Grin

BrainSurgeon · 07/10/2011 15:16

HA ha not really.....as I said I'm not even sure what you're talking about, I can't look at any of this stuff as I'm at work.... I'm just literally PSML at your educational findings (massively helped by my imagination)

gazzalw · 07/10/2011 15:15

If it was something like Coco de Mer run by Sam Roddick (run by women primarily for women's pleasure) then surely that would have a place but anything else might be dodgy....

Hullygully · 07/10/2011 15:15

sexy

Oh MNHQ - look what you've started....

you know we love a bit of competitive horror

FontOfAllEvil · 07/10/2011 15:15

Hmmm, started off thinking, who cares? Then I read a lot of the posts and decided I agree with many of them and therfore evidentally I do care, in a no to the ad's kind of way. Although it's more than my job is worth to go clicking on any of the links from this particular computer!

GetOrfMo1Land · 07/10/2011 15:14

dear me

"Urge your lover to push the boundaries with Coco de Mer's virginal white linen blindfold. 'Love Until it Hurts' is painstakingly spelled out in blood red cross stitching. You'll never look back..."

Yuk.

Serioudly have to delete history now.

Hullygully · 07/10/2011 15:13

Are you getting into character Brain?

BrainSurgeon · 07/10/2011 15:12
Hullygully · 07/10/2011 15:12

Actually, not at that price. I'll make my own out of toilet roll and sticky back plastic like the good old days.

smileitssunny · 07/10/2011 15:12

No thanks Helen. As other posters have pointed out, I am on MN in the day often when the children are about.

GetOrfMo1Land · 07/10/2011 15:12

foxy lady

Hullygully · 07/10/2011 15:11

I think I'm going to get one and wear it to the park. Just to see.

GetOrfMo1Land · 07/10/2011 15:11

I actually am shocked SHOCKED I TELL YOU. I didn't know shops outside amsterdam sold this kind of stuff.

SGB is going to come on and call me mundane in a minute. I have got a horrible feeling she is right Grin

BrainSurgeon · 07/10/2011 15:11

This sounds dodgier and dodgier bloody hell!

GetOrfMo1Land · 07/10/2011 15:10

"Serving Suggestion: Put this on for dog-style loving. Get on all fours and crawl into submission? Position the ears for more of a submissive look, or prick the ears to attention."

Grin
BrainSurgeon · 07/10/2011 15:10

ROFL at Hullys revelations

I don't dare look at the sites (chicken)

ElderberrySyrup · 07/10/2011 15:08

' Position the ears for more of a submissive look, or prick the ears to attention.'

I was right. For emotionally repressed men whose girlfriends have discovered the only way to communicate with them is to speak dog.

Hullygully · 07/10/2011 15:08

Elderberry - how is that a turn on? Really? Apart from bestiality when surely you'd want the real thing?

Hullygully · 07/10/2011 15:07

What an odd hen night, reading wallpaper. Don't they wear garters and lie in the gutter any more?

ElderberrySyrup · 07/10/2011 15:05

The strangest thing in Coco de Mer is this for £350.

What's that all about then? Is it a common fetish of the very rich, due to their repressed upbringings in loveless country houses where the only being to whom they are permitted to show affection is their labrador?

GetOrfMo1Land · 07/10/2011 15:03

That is the kind of thing you would buy a pretentious knob who reads *wallpaper magazine for her hen night.

lovecat · 07/10/2011 15:02

Nope.

I'm not a prude (but as, from a convo I had a few months back with SIL I appear to be the only woman in Essex who doesn't own a vibrator, maybe I'm a wee bit backward), but I really don't want it anywhere on MN.

BIWI, I too am still a bit Shock at the Anne Summers shops being on the high street. Ee, I remember when you had to go into Soho if you wanted to be confronted with that sort of stuff...

Hullygully · 07/10/2011 15:01

What about the glass zigzag, getorf? I've worked out how you use it, you have to use the 6.5 inch speculum first. Silly me.

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