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

Another 'no' vote from me

Re where to draw the line:

As I said on the other thread, I'm hard to shock or offend but the more extreme products on the love honey site did shock me wrt being advertised on mn. The 'medical toys' mostly.

If you struggle with where to draw the line with having sex product advertising on here and are needing to canvass for opinions then I would say that no to all would be the best option.

Are you really going to fully investigate every page of every sex site that comes to you to check how far their products go?

Which one if you would get that job?!

(sound of Hully's glass thing breaking under pressure of usage...)

Ka-disshhh!

"I could go both ways on this one"

Popular phrase on the Lovehoney review section.

I could go both ways on this one.......

Restricting access, via this site, to 'adult' stuff seems a bit wrong, and people would still enjoy the power to click-or-not-to-click. I don't have a cardi to clutch or bosoms to re-adjust (tho' was just accused of being a Mary Whitehouse figure....). I do doubt if having such ads would result in an increase in sexually abusive practices - men who are into that won';t be on here in the first place, as likely as not. And having them would/could liberate the taboo of sex toys we still have.

ooh Hully

This isn't the thread for it (or is it?), but it is an interesting area of debate, the whole right to sexual enjoyment etc etc

Oh I didn't read the thread, just waded right into a weird scenario with dildos and artritic OAP's.

Just your average day on MN then.

My answer is the same though. Ewwww no

I dread an advert I click on by mistake I am always doing that on the iPad I would be uncomfortable MN ing when children are about, I don't think it fits in well with MN at all. Also for example the learning zone means my youngest dd will go on MN clicks to love honey would be a few clicks away, yes I am around when she is online but I don't sit directly by her at all times when she is reading e books etc because I viewed MN as a safe site withbthat window open.

Ewwww no

I did care work as a teen.
If you got assigned a certain old bloke on an evening shift you had to help him turn the pages of his porn mags.
I'd forgotten all about that, cheers Bof.

just you

Is it just me, or does it seem above and beyond the call of duty for a care worker to wield the dildo for an arthritic pensioner?

Soupy - I'm very well aware that the internet isn't safe, and that this is a public forum, to be accessed by anyone. But that wasn't what 'this is a safe place' meant, IMO.

Soup it IS safe in one sense....it is safe from sex ads...and ads to do with sex. That's good enough for me.

I'm leaving the "discussion" anyway.

I don't care one way or another whether the ads appear Bt think they should be in a new Sex topic only if they do.

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

That is what they asked for, I say, "fine by me". though I wouldn't want large pictures of actual products spread about the place. my view, and I'm entitled to express it without being told I'm patronising. If someone asks why I think that I'll elaborate, and I don't expect to be told in response that my views are inherently inferior. A lot of older people (and I have in mind one lady, over 90) buy from these sites because being widowed, having arthritis etc. make having anysort of sex life very difficult, and they need carers to help them access these products.

If sex toy suppliers could create a demand from nothing I'm sure they wuld not be in that business for long, some of the multinational and supermarket chains would be signing them up for their marketing departments!

I am assuming that the ad in question did not, in fact, display in your face pictures of sex toys in all their graphic glory but was, in fact, some kind of banner ad with innuendo filled text?

Cristina, complaining is one thing, continuing to whine when MNHQ took the ad down without hesitation following a tiny number of complaints and then asked for opinions is another.

As for MN being a "safe place", don't be so naive. A public internet forum is not, and never can be, a safe place and you really ought to understand that.