Daughter in sex shop shocker

[TabithaLu]

Asking for a friend without an account, genuinely. So, said friend’s eighteen year old daughter has posted a photo on Instagram of her and a pal horsing about in a Soho sex shop with all the paraphernalia that you might expect in the background. Daughter has left school and is about to leave for university. She’s essentially an adult. Friend is upset about this. Said friend, incidentally, worked in a shop that sold sex toys when she was a teenager and has conceived four children since then so presumably knows about the merits of sex. I haven’t asked whether she has been in a sex shop to purchase any sex toys herself as now is not the time as she is giving out with her Mary Whitehouse routine. Friend is 38.
Quotes on the subject matter include “I am very very unhappy about this” and “what is she doing in a sex shop” “[she] should be spending her days doing nice wholesome walks on the beach]”.
Please join me in telling her that she is BU and to get a grip.

If you can't do it at 18, you'll never do it.
It's what being 18 is all about.

Going into sex shops at 18 is just banter. She should be delighted her and the friend are close and can horse around having fun - that's a beautiful thing!

Your friends being completely unreasonable

Which shop?

They are not letting you Touch the goods due to cv19 at the moment in most

My daughter's 18th birthday present was a weekend in Amsterdam with two of her friends. Sex shops featured. I would've been surprised if they hadn't.

Quotes on the subject matter include ““what is she doing in a sex shop” “[she] should be spending her days doing nice wholesome walks on the beach]”.

I call BS- do I win a prize???

Oh FFS, she was only IN a sex shop! She wasn't in a brothel or engaging in a sex act!

I bet the Mum has been to her fair share of hen parties with penis straws and other stupid shit. Being around these things doesn't mean you're using them and even if you are, so what?!!

I wonder if your friend's real problem is embarrassment that people might see the post?

@TitsOutForHarambe

I thought all teenagers did this - even the ones who don't intend to buy anything go in to mess around and be silly.

Not a big deal.

I've seen loads of these pics and never given it any thought...but I suppose thinking about it now I would assume the ones posting pics aren't actually buying anything lol

Oh my word, I remember visiting seedy Soho sex shops while drunk in my youth!

To be honest, I would rather my daughter had a happy, satisfactory hang-up free sex life than any number of wholesome beach walks but I would definitely rather not hear about it on social media

I think the issue is posting it on social media. It could come back to haunt decades later....

Your title is very reminiscent of a Sun headline.

She's 18! She should be made to feel embarrassed of her sexuality.

I bought my first vibrator around that age.

Speaking as a person who when I was a teeganer turned up to a day time party get together with mum and all normal at the start till we both realized it was a sex toy party (like Tupperware type thing) we did stay but that was awkward! her friends never mentioned it to her beforehand

So no her just being in a sex shop as a muck around thing would not faze me

To be fair there aren't many beaches in Soho!

I put my hand up to go on stage at the big sex show in Amsterdam last year (cue big shock from the audience as I'm a woman) and ate banana from a woman's bits people I've mentioned it to can't believe I'd do that. I think some people are just quite prudish when it comes to that but I'm the total opposite, I say embrace it.

Please, she’s hardly a child.

Doing the maths, your friend got pregnant at 19 to have this daughter. I suspect she’s more worried about her own child going down that same road rather than the sex shop per se.

@Pbbananabagel

Every teenager walking through soho ever has been in a sex shop. For the laughs. End of.

I haven't.