Let's talk about sex toys (well, ads for them on Mumsnet), please

[HelenMumsnet]

Hello.

We'd like your opinions, please, on Mumsnet taking ads for stores/sites that sell sex toys.

We accepted a campaign for one site like this earlier in the week - and then removed it after receiving a fair number of complaints.

So, what we need to know now is...

Do you mind ads for stores/sites that sell sex toys - generally speaking?

Does it matter which stores/sites these are? And what kind of stuff they're selling?

And, if you wouldn't run a mile from these kinds of ads, would you be happy to see them all over Mumsnet (with the obvious exception of our more sensitive topics such as Bereavement, Special Needs, Relationships, Miscarriage etc)? Or would you prefer them only to be in Chat?

Do please post and let us know your thoughts.

Thanks MNHQ

at the cat and dog masks on cloudsandwinds link.....

Ok - I hold my hands up and did not know that Coco De Mer went that far (must browse site properly next time)
Revised opinion - adverts for Coco De Mer NOT ok on MN.

PMSL at Hully's newfound knowledge as a basis of this thread. REmember to wipe your computer history, love.

"on the basis"

Hully Its art innnit?
(Ponders on said item being admired by visitors)
Them: What is it?
You: It's a sculpture
Them:

It zig zags.

Who?

Who would put a glass zigzag up their nethers?

Just been to look at Coco de Mer website. It is running very slowly. Thanks to you norty ladies.
Yes, zigzag issue was my first thought too.

I don't have a problem with sites like Lovehoney being advertised on MN. So long as the adverts are non-specific (e.g. just featuring the company brand - not a specific toy) and are clearly flagged as being adult sites (perhaps with an 18+ symbol).

MNers seems to discuss sex an awful lot - perhaps MN should open it's own sex shop?

Another no from me.

Anal speculums? What the bloody hell? Why would anyone want to use that.

That reminds me of the thread talking about Max Hardcore, he uses those in his vile videos. I don't think I would want something like that advertised on MN tbh.

I don't dare look at that site (this is a work laptop and I am a civil servant ) but I trust what others on this thread are saying about it.

There are sex toys which are mainstream - the dulux things which they sell in Asda. That was an interesting conversation with my then 14 year old daughter - looking for vitamins in Asda she shrieked in horrified laughter and said 'oh my GOD mum Asda sell cock rings'

WEll I just had a look at coco de mer. Nice underwear, bizarre dildos.

How do you delete history on firefox?

Dulux! Haha I meant durex

What about the glass zigzag, getorf? I've worked out how you use it, you have to use the 6.5 inch speculum first. Silly me.

Nope.

I'm not a prude (but as, from a convo I had a few months back with SIL I appear to be the only woman in Essex who doesn't own a vibrator, maybe I'm a wee bit backward), but I really don't want it anywhere on MN.

BIWI, I too am still a bit at the Anne Summers shops being on the high street. Ee, I remember when you had to go into Soho if you wanted to be confronted with that sort of stuff...

That is the kind of thing you would buy a pretentious knob who reads *wallpaper magazine for her hen night.

The strangest thing in Coco de Mer is this for £350.

What's that all about then? Is it a common fetish of the very rich, due to their repressed upbringings in loveless country houses where the only being to whom they are permitted to show affection is their labrador?

What an odd hen night, reading wallpaper. Don't they wear garters and lie in the gutter any more?

Elderberry - how is that a turn on? Really? Apart from bestiality when surely you'd want the real thing?

' Position the ears for more of a submissive look, or prick the ears to attention.'

I was right. For emotionally repressed men whose girlfriends have discovered the only way to communicate with them is to speak dog.

ROFL at Hullys revelations

I don't dare look at the sites (chicken)

"Serving Suggestion: Put this on for dog-style loving. Get on all fours and crawl into submission? Position the ears for more of a submissive look, or prick the ears to attention."

This sounds dodgier and dodgier bloody hell!

I actually am shocked SHOCKED I TELL YOU. I didn't know shops outside amsterdam sold this kind of stuff.

SGB is going to come on and call me mundane in a minute. I have got a horrible feeling she is right

I think I'm going to get one and wear it to the park. Just to see.

foxy lady

No thanks Helen. As other posters have pointed out, I am on MN in the day often when the children are about.