to hav felt physically sick at this desplay in Poundland?

[MrsFruitcake]

Only popped in because it's DS's birthday next week and someone told me they sell big bags of balloons in there.

Get a pack, and approach the till area with DD (who is 7). On the till end, in clear view to everyone queing, is a display of Condoms and pink vibrating 'love-rings' - cock rings I suppose they would be better known as.

The pinkness of the boxes they are in and the word 'ring' catches DDs attention and she wants to know what they are for. There was definite sniggering from the couple behind us as I struggled to find the right words. I told her they were for grown ups to wear, which wasn't a lie, but she kept pressing me on it and I had to tell her to be quiet in the end.

DD is totally clueless about sex, but even if she weren't, I still don't think I'd like to have to explain what they are for.

I am no prude - but am I right to be angry about the fact that Poundland display them in such a prominent position, exactly where the sweets would normally be? It's wrong on so many levels IMO. I will be writing to them tomorrow.

Where in the shop would work for you then? Maybe you should petition the manager to get them put in an aisle that you personally don't use? But of course other parents might.....

I feel physcially sick just thinking about Poundland. I think I might actually throw up if I had to go in one.

yeah, but you'd get over it for cheapo party balloons surely?

Cock rings are not contraception though are they?

deadei Me too. Has always amused me that anyone buys them from there. Remember being stood behind some bloke with a whole basket full of them and having to go pretend to browse elsewhere so he couldn't hear me laughing.

i've never seen a cock ring in waitrose.....what is a cock ring? is it so a man can keep a stiffy' for longer? seriously :)

It depends - you get the ones that are supposed to keep the blood in the penis, or the ones that have tickers or vibro fronds for thrush inducing "lady pleasure" but i think I'd probably achieve a better orgasm at 3 creme eggs for a quid.

"I would worry about the quality of condoms from Poundland........."

I always worry about condoms on the 'whoopsie' display of broken/damaged goods at my local supermarket

IMO there is a big difference between sexual images of porn on display and safe sex/sex play stuff, it's not like there's a picture of it in use on the front and it's good that these things aren't hidden and made to be shameful. It's not shameful to enjoy sex, and the boxes are pretty inoffensive. When I was younger my mums friend used to have reusable condoms drying on her dish rack Now that is traumatic...

Ticklers not tickers

Who on earth hates their bloke enough to make him wear a pink, Poundland cock ring?

You can get decent branded condoms from ye olde Pound Shoppe..now the preganancy tests...

I was thinking about that..I mean a pink cock-ring?...

A bitch,skirt. but a frugal bitch.....

"It depends - you get the ones that are supposed to keep the blood in the penis, or the ones that have tickers or vibro fronds for thrush inducing "lady pleasure" but i think I'd probably achieve a better orgasm at 3 creme eggs for a quid."

This is my Quote of the Week vote

No franc land here in Switzerland either.

We do have "World of Sex" for all your sexy needs. Somewhere on another thread a Swiss person is complaining about the copies of "the people's friend" displayed alongside " big fat cocks monthly" perhaps, and how they nearly choked on their ball gag in horror!

Maybe a selection of cock rings from Poundland would be a good booby prize for the Pta Quiz?

bin full' - nice one, that really made me laugh

youonlybuyballoonsfromoundlandonce!

buggasacebarnotworkingafterDHcleanedthekeyboard

I saw a display like that in Poundland yesterday, but I didn't think anything of it.

i remember once i was in amsterdam in a high street, not in the red light area, just a standard busy high street, one of those where there is no traffic that goes up and down, anyway, i was chatting to a friend and noticed we were standing outside a sex shop, infront of the sex shop was a local women chatting to a friend and had her little boy with her. in the window of the sex shop was among other things a large picture of a pg women (i kid you not) with a mans hand up her vag'. and the face of the women (in the picture), i'll never forget it, she was looking so 'normal', like an ad' for windolene. the shop display made anne summers look like a bloody green grocers. i got the impression the dutch are really laid back and just take sex in their stride, found that particular picture rather disturbing and wished i'd not seen it.

They have condoms by the till in the CO-OP too. They're really eye-catching too, as they're in silver tins. Really annoys me because DS asks what they are each time and I think it's up to me when I decide to educate my child about sex.

This reminds me of when I was in the chemist with my dad (I was about 7) and started playing with what I now know to be packets of condoms. I kept asking him what they were and as I was a tenacious I went on a bit He was mortified and the lady behind the counter was really laughing. I remember thinking they must be something naughty!

Um, if the box failed to name the item why didn;t you just say 'Oh no love, those sweeties are horrid you woudln't like them' and move on to something else?

I have thought about cock rings: tbh whilst theya re different than condoms yes i fail to see them in any way as an issue. Actually I think a bit of funn sex and diversity is a good thing and by seven most kdis should know some things aren't for kids well enough.

I don't think I would have had the same reactui to you and yes, they should have been somewhere else but you are also completely entitled to feel
How you do without being mocked for it. If this is something that bothers you complain to the manager