[quote TheOriginalEmu]@TurkeyRoastvBubbleandSqueek it’s weird because it doesn’t work. Newsagents sell all kinds of things and aren’t known as a smutty shop. This card shop is. That’s why.[/quote]
Thank you for replying Emu, but my post about working in a newsagents was an explanation reply to @CinstonWhurchill
She accused the OP of being both unreasonable and ridiculous, and I didn't agree with her.
She told the OP
"Have an age appropriate conversation with your child, should they observe/question these things.
The world of retail and consumerism cannot solely revolve around your child"
I, obviously quite badly, was trying to point out to Cinston that for people like the OP and me, who were not aware of the existence of this "smutty shop" that we would not expect to find when we go in to an obvious child attracting card shop, with our (say) 7 year old child, such a card to be at a child height level. Therefore it doesn't seem fair to us innocent mums that we have to try to explain to our 7 year old child (who we hope will keep their innocence until at least after they have heard the full Santa story) that
"adult men put their penis into an adult woman's vagina and then spurt some tiny things that look a bit like tadpoles, but aren't, they are called sperm, into it. Those sperm then swim inside a part of the woman's body - called the womb (easier to spell than uterus) - and hopefully one of them will collide with a soft egg produced by the woman, which is much bigger than a single sperm (I can neither spell nor look up the name for a single sperm at the moment), but much smaller than the hen's egg you eat with soldiers, and, it doesn't have to remove a hard shell first because it hasn't been hard boiled - giggle... Anyway, if the egg and the sperm do meet, they often, very cleverly, make a baby together.
However my Darling, men and women don't always have the man put his penis into the woman to make babies, sometimes they do it because it feels fabulous to both of them (I certainly don't want to have to tell my 7 year old that), so they just do it for fun.
So you already know a bit about how babies are made, and that the act of a man putting his penis into a woman is often just called 'sex', but you have now just asked me what bum sex is, because you have read it on this card here, and you know my love that I am always honest with you, so I will explain this to you. You know that for 'sex' the man puts his penis into the woman's vagina, well for bum sex the man puts his penis into the hole that the brown and smelly poo (I am not going to call it faeces to a 7 year old child, you can to yours if you want to) comes out of. Now I know that that might sound DIS GUS TING to you my sweet, but some adults really like the feeling that gives them, and it also means that the man can shoot his sperm into the receivers bottom, and it won't make them have a baby if they don't want to as there are no eggs waiting inside a bum for them. Men like Uncle Jim and Uncle Dave also have sex like this, because they love each other but neither of them has a vagina to have such fun with. Apparently it is especially nice for the one who is putting his penis into the other one's bottom, because the bum's hole is a lot tighter than the the woman's vagina, and so their penis gets squeezed a lot tighter.
The card also mentions that it can hurt the next day (or even straight afterwards), this is because if the person having the penis put into their bum hasn't used lots and lots of lubrication - because remember it is a much tighter hole - it can stretch the skin around the hole so much that it tears, and bleeds a bit, and we all know that cuts can hurt. This also carries with it a danger of infection, because when the person poos later in the day, some of the poo can get into the cut, and that can make the man or woman whose bum it is, get an infection, which in itself can hurt, and might make them ill in a few days time.
Now, Cinston said to be age appropriate, so which bit do you leave out for a child between the ages of say 6 and 10, 11, 12? who can read well?
So I was pointing out that you can go safely into a newsagents without having to go through the story above, and you should also be able to go safely into a cardshop, that probably most people still haven't heard of, so have no idea that it stocks such risky material at a childs level. I don't think that my pointing that out was at all weird. However, I am willing to concede that talking an imaginary child through bum sex, might be!