'Mumsnet hijacked by sex discussions' - Telegraph article, your views?

[RebeccaMumsnet]

Hi all,

There is an article in The Telegraph today discussing the "risqué underbelly" of Mumsnet, and claiming that the site is "being hijacked by women looking to share steamy details of their private lives, leading to complaints from mothers looking for serious advice."

Justine has commented in the article, saying: "Happily it seems some mothers do still have time for their sex lives and we're pleased to provide a go-to destination for straight answers when you need to ask life's important but often embarrassing questions."

What are your thoughts on this?

I didn't post on penis beaker or Yoni massage not because I am a big prude, just because they weren't amusing/entertaining.

I just did a and moved on.....

MN has always had threads about sex.

If you don't like them, hide them.

It's not like the whole site is all about sex.

I read the article this morning when I was supposed to be writing minutes and just thought '..,and' is there nothing else newsworthy? Although I would like to have been a fly on the wall when my aged father and long-time Torygraph reader read it.

What a lot of nonsense! My children are definitely past the nappy / sleepless night age but I still think MN is highly valuable for all sorts of things.

My favourite bit about that article, by the way, is the picture.

That's exactly what I look like when I'm on MN. Wearing a vest top and giggling in an outraged way with my friend like some sort of sickening 'girly' sleepover. Yuck.

They must have missed my riveting thread last week about getting hot candle wax out of a tablecloth.
Or they thought I was pouring it on DH's nether regions on the dining table in some disgraceful sex game.

I've never used MN for advice on nappies or sleepless nights.

They need to read the drunk thread if they want intelligent conversation.

"Hijacked"? No way. It's always been there, and this site is so huge that there's plenty of room for it. Sometimes I feel like cackling along and sometimes I don't, and I click on threads accordingly.

It is a very dichotomous comment isn't it ?

Hijacked by women (do we presume by default they aren't mothers ?)
wanting to share steamy details of their private lives (not so private then ? Implication that they should be ?)

Complaints (apparently? - to them? ) from mothers looking for serious advice (So, presumably that's not serious advice about sex or relationships then .... but about which puree to offer to your baby first or some such?)

I found MN when the DC were 12 and 9. I missed all the birth/bf/weaning threads.

I was straight in with 'OMG is anyone watching This Morning?' or some other important thread.

They keep saying the sex threads are HIDDEN, hidden shamefully and lasciviously away in amongst all the wholesome chat about breastfeeding and nappies.

FFS they're not hidden, they're right out there in the open. For all to see. No need to search them out. No need to hide anything or be ashamed.

I AM WOMAN. I LIKE SEX. ROAR.

I'm Joanne Baxter, and so is my wife.

They keep saying the sex threads are HIDDEN, hidden shamefully and lasciviously away in amongst all the wholesome chat about breastfeeding and nappies.

FFS they're not hidden, they're right out there in the open. For all to see. No need to search them out. No need to hide anything or be ashamed.

I AM WOMAN. I LIKE SEX. ROAR.

Has anyone pointed out the DM have nicked this and Joanna Baxter's comment too.

This from the comments section at the bottom:

Isabel, London, United Kingdom, 13 minutes ago

I personally find mumsnet to be full of coarse women who talk about men and sex in a really unsavoury way. The half baked advise, obscene language and man-hating is unbelievable and woe betide anybody who disagrees with the general consensus. Small minded bullies with nothing better to do with their time. Then they all wonder why their husbands work late all the time.

Do we? Must have missed that memo.

It's like 'Professor Layton Mumsnet' Hearts. Solve the puzzle and unlock the pervy outrageous shocking sex thread.

I don't use fucking obscene language.

What a cunt, Isabel sounds.

Oops sorry about the double post.

My recent threads have been about primary schools.

And maggots.

If maggots ever feature in a sex thread, I will flounce too.

Dolly, walsall, moments ago

I've been thrown off mumsnet twice for daring to disagree with someone about how to safely use alternative medicine when your child's autistic. It's a horrible site. Full of horrible half crazy women. Maybe all this sex will cheer them all up a bit??

Yes, 'cos a difference of opinion gets you thrown off MN. Not repeated trolling or anything like that, oh no.

Sparkling arf

hi

I think, in a way, we all have a little bit of Joanne Baxter inside of us.

Joanna Baxter, for example, is a twat

There's a thread about Nutella at the moment, if anyone wants something truly close to our stomachs hearts.

Oooooh, Nutella
For use in the bedroom I presume?