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Dont let kids look at Boots for pressie ideas..

158 replies

mamabear715 · 04/10/2022 18:39

www.boots.com/christmas/all-christmas/ann-summers-small-thai-anal-love-beads-10307639

Is it just me? What next, vibrators in M&S?

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CatchYouOnTheFlippetyFlop · 04/10/2022 19:37

Fwiw Poundland have had bullet vibrators on the shelves in the recent past too

Now that's what you call a cheap thrill!

Zero19 · 04/10/2022 19:40

I work in Argos ….

Good job we haven’t got the catalogue anymore , we sell sex toys now 😂😂

even worse … someone bought one back brazen as you like for a replacement because it stopped working 🤢🤢 I mean you expect this in Ann Summers but ARGOS

they come in grey little bags …

AlwaysPan1ck1ng · 04/10/2022 19:40

mamabear715 · 04/10/2022 18:39

Oh you poor sweet summer child

What next, they see condoms? Or vapes? Or medication!

Just checked and boots' website doesnt come ul immediately with sex toys. You actively have to look for them so methinks your pearl clutching is a little bit over dramatic

mam0918 · 04/10/2022 19:41

Rogue1001MNer · 04/10/2022 19:37

My DSis, bless her, thought they were massagers and brought several for various family members one Christmas. It caused a LOT of hilarity

No she didnt lol.

They are hidden of the highest shelves and you have to look for them its also CLEAR what they are and they are next to the sex pill, condoms and lube.

She may have bought them for a laugh (seems several people try to be edgy like that so its a common gift for secret santas etc...) but you have been seriously naive if you believe it was a mistake rather than a deliberate joke.

She certainly couldn't lack that much awareness of what they where unless she is a very young child with a jet pack (to reach them) or suffers quite severe learning difficulties that leave her completely socially and sexually unaware.

mamabear715 · 04/10/2022 19:45

OMG @Zero19
#Imagines you in Hazmat suit & gloves, receiving used sex toy back.. :-0

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mamabear715 · 04/10/2022 19:47

Just to put you all straight, my sis sent me the link, so if anyone was looking at sex toys, it was her! ;-)
For those of you picturing me pearl clutching while watching my angelic little ones, they are actually in their 20's!

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milawops · 04/10/2022 19:48

OhWhatFuckeryIsThisNow · 04/10/2022 19:12

Are they on 3 for 2?

I need your social life Wink

QueenOfHiraeth · 04/10/2022 19:49

I am very old indeed and one of my first jobs was in Boots. Back in those days the condoms were kept behind the counter in the drawer labelled "Indoor Sports" and men (because women never bought them back then) would come in and say "Can I speak to the man in the back?" to ask the pharmacist for them.

Apparently the founder of Boots did not allow them on open sale. Poor man must be spinning in his grave!

I tried to Google and find when it changed but, apparently, my computer's safe search function won't allow it and I am too old to know how to change that!

Sally090807 · 04/10/2022 19:50

Rinoachicken · 04/10/2022 18:43

You can buy a vibrating cock ring in Sainsburys 😱

Order number?, asking for a friend. 😂😂

Zero19 · 04/10/2022 19:50

mamabear715 · 04/10/2022 19:45

OMG @Zero19
#Imagines you in Hazmat suit & gloves, receiving used sex toy back.. :-0

luckily I wasn’t on the till at the time but the person who was is the most black and white person you could meet and I imagine he’s never seen a sex toy in his life 😂
imagine Roy Cropper on the till …. It was HILARIOUS I said she couldn’t have picked a better member of staff to serve her !

LeandraDear · 04/10/2022 19:51

It would make a cool keyring.

AmuckAmuckAmuck · 04/10/2022 19:51

Sally090807 · 04/10/2022 19:50

Order number?, asking for a friend. 😂😂

firstmummy2019 · 04/10/2022 19:53

HangOnToYourself · 04/10/2022 18:42

Imagining OP going to clutch her Pearls only to discover they are anal beads...

🤣🤣🤣

Rogue1001MNer · 04/10/2022 19:55

mam0918 · 04/10/2022 19:41

No she didnt lol.

They are hidden of the highest shelves and you have to look for them its also CLEAR what they are and they are next to the sex pill, condoms and lube.

She may have bought them for a laugh (seems several people try to be edgy like that so its a common gift for secret santas etc...) but you have been seriously naive if you believe it was a mistake rather than a deliberate joke.

She certainly couldn't lack that much awareness of what they where unless she is a very young child with a jet pack (to reach them) or suffers quite severe learning difficulties that leave her completely socially and sexually unaware.

She absolutely did.

Her (adult) kids nearly wet themselves when I opened mine and said "fuck me, that's a vibrator"

She insisted it was a massager and would be useful cos I get a bad back.

firstmummy2019 · 04/10/2022 19:57

ChimChimeny · 04/10/2022 19:03

There was a lot.of hoo ha when they sold JLS condoms years ago and kids found them & were asking their parents what they were 😆

I've heard it all🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

starfishmummy · 04/10/2022 19:59

Rinoachicken · 04/10/2022 18:43

You can buy a vibrating cock ring in Sainsburys 😱

I'm obviously not going down the right aisles when I shop!!! (Or isn't the wrong aisles?) GrinBlush

mamabear715 · 04/10/2022 20:01

@Zero19 Priceless! ;-)

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HenryPlease · 04/10/2022 20:04

Very handy. I can get some when I pop in for my piles cream.

SplashingMermaidSparkleTail · 04/10/2022 20:04

DarkShade · 04/10/2022 19:03

I thought this was going to be another rant about how mums only get given Shae body butter for Christmas!

Boots are a chemist, where else do you go to buy your anal beads?

Er the sex shop?!

Allmyarseandpeggymartin · 04/10/2022 20:04

Is anyone else actually properly disappointed that it was a link to the website and not the boot christmas catalogue?

starfishmummy · 04/10/2022 20:05

Isn't it more of a case of you do know where they have been.

SplashingMermaidSparkleTail · 04/10/2022 20:05

Zero19 · 04/10/2022 19:40

I work in Argos ….

Good job we haven’t got the catalogue anymore , we sell sex toys now 😂😂

even worse … someone bought one back brazen as you like for a replacement because it stopped working 🤢🤢 I mean you expect this in Ann Summers but ARGOS

they come in grey little bags …

🤢

oldstudentmum · 04/10/2022 20:07

I had that last year was looking for something for put in three letters ! First thing that came up was a rampant rabbit. Can’t remember what I put “in” the search for but wow, at the time I said fuck me. Obviously not with that it would have taken my eyes out, I honestly didn’t know boots sold such a thing.

I’m sat here clutching my large black pearl strings. It’s eye watering for Boots,!!!!

Sally090807 · 04/10/2022 20:07

I need an idiots guide to these, how exactly do they work, do you shove them up your backside, if so isn’t it painful. Also won’t they come out covered in poo? 😛