to despair that this sexual crassness is not “news” BBC!!!!!!

[WanderOver]

I was scrolling down BBC online news this morning .... the usual ... coronavirus, stock market.

About the 10th item down was an item entitled “How To Masturbate”.

I didn’t click on it, I wasn’t really wanting to get instruction on that. But I was truly gobsmacked. How is this an online news item? Isn’t it sexually crass? Is it click bait designed to shock and offend? Why is the BBC news website writing this sexual stuff?

I did write a complaint to BBC, and will no doubt hear a justification in due course.

But ..... words fail me.

Quite honestly, you are fucking mental that you’ve got this worked up over an article you didn’t even have to read and probably wasn’t aimed at you.
Perhaps put this much ridiculous energy into something that matters like...world hunger, tax breaks for big companies, disabled people not getting benefits they need to live, homelessness, refugee crisis, war, famine, climate change and anything else that’s important.
Not this total and utter bollocks.
Hidden agendas, promoting trans gender (as if it’s a bad thing.)
Back to the dark ages with you 😂

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Why are people conflating a useful article which demystifies female masturbation and promotes healthy female pleasure with the 'Queer Agenda' (whatever that is - as the parent of two gay DDs I find that whole term pretty damn offensive).

And of course the BBC website does entertainment. Entertainment is part of what the BBC does. Unless you think 'Strictly' is a current affairs programme .

I've also just noticed that the title of the OP has six exclamation marks. According to the late great Sir Terry Pratchett, five exclamation marks are a sure sign of insanity, so imagine six...

😂😂😂😂😂😂

I don’t want to read about queer ideology OR sexual instruction on the front page of a bbc news website. The conflagration is about totally inappropriate subject matter and agendas being forced into people’s lives. People have lost all common sense and sensitivity in this country if they think the BBC should be doing this. The nasty and sweary comments on this thread also a sign. The public race to the bottom seen as a joke.

Also it’s all so patronising. The “big” “woke” people at the BBC telling the “little” unenlightened ones how to run their sex lives and what they should be doing in their private lives.

What is queer ideology?

I must be old, can someone clarify the pineapple thing?

PassDo you don't have to click on the item. It's pretty obvious what it is. Ergo it isn't being forced on you - it's there for people to read if they choose to do so.

What's inappropriate in an article about women's sexuality? Sex is a thing. It's enjoyable if you do it right. Lots of women haven't got a clue about how their own bodies work, because their parents don't discuss sex in the home and because sex education is a joke in the UK.

It's almost as if people like you have some hangups about sex, even though we're living in the year 2020.

BTW using the word 'woke' as an insult says a lot about you.

Honestly, if that doesn’t tell you everything. An article about female masturbation deemed to be unacceptable ‘queer agenda’ propaganda. As if the term queer agenda isn’t offensive enough, imagine being so terrified of it that you think it justifies shutting down any normal and healthy discussion of female sexuality. It’s so sad.

Read it, seemed fine to me. Perhaps those who read it will know not to say vagina when they mean vulva.

As if the term queer agenda isn’t offensive enough, imagine being so terrified of it that you think it justifies shutting down any normal and healthy discussion of female sexuality.

^ This.

@Tarttlet

Ah, you're one of those...

Actually, this isn't a feminist issue.

The BBC news website is for news. It says so on the tin. They should go back to that, and do it properly instead of continuing its trend into an uninformative celebrity and teenage gossip ‘trendy’ magazine.

Standards are what it exists for, and why it has its special funding regime.

It's not on the main bbc news site, it's on the BBC3 channel which is a separate site. Calm your nerves OP!

My left nut “my testicle was the size of an avocado” headline must blow your mind.

Oh grow the fuck up

Some charming posts on here! The vitriol is strange, nutter level in fact. AIBU has clearly got worse since I was last here. Or are they BBC employees or trustees....

Or perhaps, my long suspicion, that MN AIBU has become a little private club for the permanently angry and deranged. Shudders.

Alternatively, MN is supposed to be a forum for adults who discuss adult topics, not get offended when someone uses the perfectly normal word masturbation.

'Masturbate' is not sexual crassness. If the article said 'How to have a wank' I could maybe see the OPs point. But masturbate is a legitimate medical term to use and is not in any way crass or offensive other than to the permanently offended and it is so tiresome to see MN turning into just that.

MsMD I agree. The article is clear, written in appropriate non-smutty language and covers a topic that matters. I suspect some people equate anything that is open about sex and sexuality with crassness, because in their opinion these things should be discussed in hushed tones behind closed doors, and done in the bedroom with the lights off.

As a Dutch person I've always found many British people still have very prudish attitudes towards anything related to sex. It's sad.

@PassDo perhaps you need to explain what you mea by queer ideology because right now you sound like a nasty little homophobe.