These ads have been making me feel slightly nauseous all day - do MN usually advertise vibrators? I’ve never noticed it before?

Agree “smile makers”, “the whisperer” etc are just vomit-inducing and creepy. Bet £100 a man came up with that.

Fuck me stop at ‘women’. If you identify as one or were one, count yourself in that if you like but fuck the word salad around women please.

“The idea of anything entering down there after giving birth is enough to make you cringe.”

Honestly this sentence makes me fucking rage. No. NO. I’m a WOMAN. My body is built for all sorts of things including pregnancy, childbirth AND pleasure and I will not let you gaslight me into cringing about any of that.

And apart from anything else, the first thing I thought when I saw the picture was that it looks like that slanty nozzle you use on the vacuum cleaner that makes a very loud sound and sucks very hard but seems to be for the skirting board?

@ResisterRex You really need to work on your sexual fantasies. This one is to realistic

Who's that weird bloke jeffery who acts like a child snatcher. That's the garbage he comes out with when taking about periods

Bugger pressed post by accident. I don't own my body. I am my body

You see i never considered myself the owner of my body parts. If i was I would have opted for a longer warranty.

How is sex and motherhood taboo? How do they think you get to be a mother in the first place?

This was my first thought. If you're trying to use it on your womb, I fear you won't get the results you're after.

Well in the same search as the cervixes ?! Does it have a plural? they threw up knitting patterns. Since which time no cervix for me, but small boys jumpers patterns.

I think I've bought that much odd shit I've broken their algorithm!

What a load of utter shit
That can only have been written by a ma!
WTF do they think a vibrator's going to be doing in your womb?

Awful, awful branding. Like something the idiots on The Apprentice would have come up with.

Not only that, it's actually pretty offensive to say that sex in motherhood is a taboo, let alone that a sex toy is for people with wombs. Wombs have nothing to do with sexual function.

Massive fail.

This is what happens when you try to be inclusive to two different definitional systems.

So "women and people with wombs" is probably now a way to give a nod to those who regard women as a biological reality and also to those who do not but have female bodies.

I base this on seeing similar women - and - some body part havers constructs in some feminist contexts (like trying to eat your cake and having it too), where it's an attempt to be inclusive in a rather extreme and illogical way.

But it still does not work, because those who view 'women' as an abstract identity include some people with prostates in that definition, and as others have noted a womb is not an erogenous zone so 'people with clitorises' would be more appropriate.

There is no logical way of combining two quite different definitional systems. That's why adding 'nonbinary' to 'male' and 'female' in forms does not work as a simple addition, but changes the meanings of 'male' and 'female' to mere identities, too.

This is shocking from @mnhq 😡

Insulting language

i think just the thought of pushing a vibrator all the way into one's womb is giving me pelvic cramps. I'm getting that sick feeling you get when a speculum is being expanded

urgh

how I wish I hadn't clicked on this thread...

😂

A good lamé one obviously.

Insanity. I’ll be avoiding Smike makers - thanks for the heads up

DRINK

ARSE

FECK

"sex and motherhood is a deeply-rooted taboo"

It clearly isn't taboo, otherwise why would women go on to have more children? And if it was taboo, why would family/friends/strangers ask when mothers are going to have another child?

yeah this

I'm pretty much crossing my legs right now

nopey nope nope

Will it work for me if I only have a womb in a preserving jar? Does it need to be attached? Because honestly this language sounds like it's for serial killers with an interesting Jack the Ripper-esque collection.

If we're talking attached body parts, do I need to own the womb? I see I no longer need to own a vulva, which is good, since I'm pretty certain I never purchased mine - it came free at the point of issue. I don't think I own it as such. It's just a part of me.

And my friends who are mums talk about sex A LOT. Should I tell them that's taboo? I don't think they know.

Smilemakers not making me smile.

We used to call the crevice attachment 'the groper' god knows why. Only later in life did I realise this was not it's name.