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Full page (gross) Ann Summers adverts

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JustSayWhen · 27/07/2025 10:16

I've added a picture, though I don't know if it will be allowed. Ann Summers adverts have been popping up mid thread for a few days, mostly pictures of women in thongs and stockings from behind though also a model with crosses over her nips in some sheer thing. It's so embarrassing if I'm browsing MN in the queue for Pilates or at a coffee shop and someone looks over my shoulder and sees these tacky, porny images.

I thought ads were targeted but I have never visited the Ann Summers site in my life and never would - it's all nasty polyester, I feel itchy just seeing the adverts. I'm surprised ads featuring naked bums are ok on Mumsnet - it's really putting me off scrolling! Shouldn't they be blocked?

Full page (gross) Ann Summers adverts
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Trovindia · 27/07/2025 23:31

I agree OP, I don't want to see these adverts, they are tacky and cheap. It's so 1970s it's cringe.

MrsSkylerWhite · 27/07/2025 23:26

Cam1981 · 27/07/2025 10:28

So we are not allowed to dress sexy to turn men on. Or feel sexy for ourselves

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One woman’s “sexy” is another’s cheap and tacky.

BIWI · 27/07/2025 23:23

DuckDuckGo

TheodoraCrumpet · 27/07/2025 23:21

It all looks awfully uncomfortable and itchy. I would be so turned off by the time I got that little lot on. Put your arse away, love, I don't want to see it here.

Timefortea4 · 27/07/2025 23:18

I don't want to see those images on my phone. They are even embedded in the feminist threads! Please Mumsnet don't put this stuff in our feeds. It's not appropriate.

Lanternsarenice · 27/07/2025 22:36

Agreed. I wasn't expecting to see someone's arse just then. It shocked me.

tillyandmilly · 27/07/2025 22:28

Agree its yuk ! I hate their advertising - shoved in our faces with their tacky underwear with bare butts staring at you in yer face!

NewAgeNewMe · 27/07/2025 22:07

I posted about this on another thread. It’s not appropriate when some topics are sensitive.

Viviennemary · 27/07/2025 22:05

JustSayWhen · 27/07/2025 10:23

Glad it's not just me! I really don't want women trussed up in cheap, nasty, supposedly sexy (actually the opposite!) lingerie all over a chat forum. It's really off-putting.

Absolutely agree. Those photographs are demeaning to women and offensive. I'm surprised this site accepts such advertising. They are more or less porn.

IZK · 27/07/2025 22:03

JustSayWhen · 27/07/2025 10:25

Women's bodies do not offend me. Tacky lingerie does! And I wouldn't like a page full of men's arses either. I'm gender-neutral on this.

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According to Google, Ann Summer's turnover last year was £93 million, so it seems not everyone is offended.

Theunamedcat · 27/07/2025 22:02

StMarie4me · 27/07/2025 10:21

Why do women’s bodies offend you? Why are they ‘gross’?

I live in a house with a teen and a SEN pre teen both think privacy is a word in the dictionary not a way of life so my screen must be clean I do not wish ds2 to be asking people about the "naky pictures on mamas phone" because bet your boots that's the ONE dam thing he will remember to tell the school about after the 6 weeks holiday

IHaveAlwaysLivedintheCastle · 27/07/2025 22:00

JLou08 · 27/07/2025 11:07

You might be right there. I have shopped at Ann Summers but haven't had any adds on my thread.

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I've never shopped at Ann Summers, never looked at their website, or similar. Goodness knows why I'm seeing them. I couldn't be less interested.

TimeForABreak4 · 27/07/2025 21:58

Absolutely agree with you and it's been annoying me all day. I don't want to see women's arses when I'm scrolling the website and serious threads.

IHaveAlwaysLivedintheCastle · 27/07/2025 21:53

Cam1981 · 27/07/2025 10:28

So we are not allowed to dress sexy to turn men on. Or feel sexy for ourselves

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Nobody is saying that. Do you what you want in private. These ads are appearing whether you want to see them or not.

IHaveAlwaysLivedintheCastle · 27/07/2025 21:50

namechangeGOT · 27/07/2025 10:48

I’m in full agreement that the AS adverts shouldn’t be popping up and I do get what you mean about being stood in a queue with someone gawping over your shoulder thinking you’re googling gimp masks!

but, stop calling it tacky and tasteless and the belittling language surrounding AS because many women do enjoy buying and wearing it and funnily enough it’s not always because a bloke has asked for it. It’s like on the sex boards when posters are making out that women who enjoy different sexual things to them are ‘dirty’ and ‘gross’. They’re not.

but yeah, MN stop them popping up on threads about starving children in Gaza, it’s not necessary.

Who are you to police posters' opinions. I think those ads and the products are tacky and tasteless. I never go near the Sex Forum. I've no interest in reading about other people's sex lives and I've no interest in seeing "sexy" [aka cheap nylon] underwear on a forum which has nothing to do with sex.

IHaveAlwaysLivedintheCastle · 27/07/2025 21:45

Horrible ads, horrible product. They are currently infesting the Archers' thread. I never look at the sex forum. I don't want to see these ads.

Nanny0gg · 27/07/2025 11:41

JustSayWhen · 27/07/2025 10:52

This is Site Stuff.

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OOPs!

I looked from Trending and didn't notice

Specsavers ads might be handy...

Joboomer · 27/07/2025 11:25

I'm with the OP on this. Bare arses on a page about serious relationships or caring for someone who is ill are out of place and should not be encouraged.
No one would object is they were restricted to the Sex Pages only.

Looploop · 27/07/2025 11:15

TaborlinTheGreat · 27/07/2025 10:40

You sound confused. Buying sexy undies isn't how I became a mum.

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See the immaculate conceptions board on NunsNet….

BlotAnExpert · 27/07/2025 11:11

Use Firefox with an ad blocker and see no ads at all 😊

JLou08 · 27/07/2025 11:07

Borka · 27/07/2025 10:19

I've been getting theses too. I don't think it's targeted advertising because the triangle symbol doesn't appear.

You might be right there. I have shopped at Ann Summers but haven't had any adds on my thread.

Catsandcannedbeans · 27/07/2025 11:02

Yhe DH saw that last week and asked “what are you looking at?” But I told him it’s for my other secret boyfriend not him. It could be a bit embarrassing I guess, but this site is free (unless you’re really posh and get premium) so they need to advertise. I’m sure if enough people contacted mumsnet HQ they would remove it, so if you really bothers you’d I’d do that.

gmgnts · 27/07/2025 11:02

I now pay for ad free content from Mumsnet and it's made scrolling so much easier. It was the adverts for meat that really grossed me out, but I also got distracted by the ads for lovely shoes and dresses and kept clicking on them!

mamagogo1 · 27/07/2025 10:57

If I want to see these products I can Google them, I don’t need them popping up on my feed, ditto “adult products” stick to less controversial products please Mumsnet!

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JustSayWhen · 27/07/2025 10:52

Nanny0gg · 27/07/2025 10:50

Post on site stuff

I had vaping ads and MN have sorted them for me

This is Site Stuff.

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