To think Paperchase have lost their minds over cock and anal cards

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Paperchase have a series of Valentine's cards with such witty captions as "I love your big cock" and "nothing says I love you like anal".

As a high street chain hugely popular with young people, I'd kind of expect them to understand some boundaries about graphic and sexually explicit language.

They're brazening it out on Twitter, claiming their minuscule disclaimer about the cards being rude is absolutely adequate.

Grim.

Rarely do I get offended by rude or crude stuff, but those cards really are vile. It speaks volumes about the type of person who would buy and send one of them because there is nothing funny about them at all.

Yuck, and it's true that a lot of younger kids get stuff from Paperchase. What a liberty.

(I think I'm becoming Mary Whitehouse)

Not funny and horrible. It's not even a case of it being inappropriate for kids to see (which it is), it's just rubbish, vulgar and I would smack dh if he bought me one.

I have Tweeted and messaged them on FB asking for the name and email address of their MD to complain to them. No response to Tweet yet. Showed the cards to DH today and he was equally horrified.

CommonFramework good for you.
These cards really are beyond disgusting.
I won't be going in paperchase again.

I would totally buy a card with that on!

Me too! Someone should tell Paperchase to make some slight spelling changes to their cards to make them more sellable

They could do "I LOVE YOUR BIG COCKEREL" for people in the farming community who display their livestock at country fairs.

I'm curious to know what the card to the right of "you're lovely can I keep you?" says.

The cards aren't funny at all and really inappropriate considering the people who shop there are mostly teenagers and children. Considering that many teenage girls are pressurised into anal sex, the card referring to that is unbelievably clueless and distasteful.

If teenagers/children aren't their target audience they need to change their stock and stop selling overpriced stationary rather than sell revolting cards.

they definitely aim their stuff at kids, DD who's 6 loves it, we won't be going in anytime soon. I agree, it's utterly depressing that this is the sort of stuff our young DDs are subjected to seeing, 'cool' jokes about anal sex.

I quite like the card that says "I love you grumpy pants".

The others are just grim, not even a little bit funny or clever.

That's put me off Paperchase!

God, I feel like a right old gimer now

Children/preteens shop in paperchase! Think i need a word with my boss about a pay rise. misses the point

haha i got my husband the anal which was relevant to a friends anecdote and so was particularly funny to me. Ive also got him a romantic one as well.
Id prefer a funny card tbh and i do think they are funny. I dont see teh prob with children seeing them as they are only going to understand what they mean if they already knew. Its not like they contain explanatory graphics!!

I always thought my husband wasn't very romantic, I will have to reevaluate. How have they got it so wrong?

e mail them

[email protected] .

and make a complaint. if more people do it then they will remove them.
they weren't on that high a shelf when I went in today. nasty cards completely uncalled for and trying to be "darn wiv da kidz" which never works when adults try to do it.

they were mixed up next to the Disney cards at the shop I went into. horrible, horrible.

The have removed the cards now

I never knew "Hardon" was all one word.

The are times and places where loving big cocks is appropriate. A stationary shop with a general clientele is not one.

They are crude, crudeness is definitely more mainstream than ever these days. I think what I find most bothersome is they seem very male pleasure driven.

Unless there's a 'nothing says romance like cunnilingus without expectation'

how high up are they? my dd would immediate be curious if she saw " these cards rude etc"

Omg I'm no prude but that's just vile!!

A bit mean to people with small cocks too.

Gross and lowbrow. Yuck.

Paperchase: if you have responded and removed these cards, well done

The wording of the 'anal ' one was, to my mind, so resonant of the emotional blackmail used to coerce women, and especially young women, into sexual activity they are not 100% happy with. Particular sexual practices should never be used as a yardstick or measure of love. This card says 'if you don't do anal, you don't really love me'. Yes, potentially it also says 'we do anal therefore we really love each other'... but that is just a more positively framed version of the same message.

The others, the Big Cock one, etc - don't bother me much. But they need to be not visible to children.

That's a disgrace!

I gave my goddaughter a paperchase gift voucher for Xmas.

She is 13. And just shy of 6ft tall. It doesn't matter what shelf it's on!

Won't be going in there again!