Why is Sex topic now in Active?

[clarrylove]

It never used to be there before. It doesn't really seem appropriate with some of the titles.

Another one not really appreciating this

I had noticed this too

Tawdry

Hi there,
Thanks for your continued thoughts, we'll certainly pass them up the food chain for you. Let us get back to you re the app, @BentleyRhythmAce.

Yes, just adding my voice to complain about this. Such a strange, seedy approach. I've hidden it. I find it strange I have to go searching for other topics deemed contentious but this is right in your face. I've not seen anyone in support of this yet MNHQ aren't willing to act.

There was some sort of advert for Ann summers yesterday as well.

I am really getting a bit fed up of this subliminal message I’m getting whenever I come on MN about sex. It’s actually quite creepy that new mothers are being reassured that their sex life will come back. Maybe they’ve got other things on their mind?

Move it please no one wants it

Seedy is just a great word. I'm not sure apart from the obvious (£££} has changed to suddenly make it not hidden anymore. It was seedy then and is still seedy now.

They obviously think we want to read about all the men wanking over other men who are pretending to be women, sorry, vulva owners. We’ll all just be so turned on by the pervs that we’ll order ourselves one of their vibrating Shreks ears. How could us women, sorry, vulva owners, resist.

Yeah... The Sex topic reads a LOT like a wierd fetish site an abusive ex liked to force on me. If he wasn't dead, I'm sure he'd be on there: just the sort of thing he'd have liked, discussing his predilections publicly while knowing it make people uncomfortable. I sometimes half expect to find some of the pictures I know he took of me and stuck on the internet there, it's so much like the wierd fetish sites.

I'm going to look into hiding it, thank you for the instructions. At the moment, each time it pops up I end up compulsively reading them as a wierd act of self harm and then spend the day freaking out about having let an abusive sex freak somehow suck me in: does nothing for the panic attacks and flash backs.

How much are you being paid to make this topic public, to advertise sex toys that no woman in her right mind would even want for free let alone pay money for, and to turn this site into a no-go area for many mums who just want parenting advice and who are often posting while their small children are nearby?

I hope you’re making more money than the number of users you’re going to lose?

Or have you changed your ideas as to the kind of users you want to attract?

Oh god I'm pleased to have seen this - I had no idea Mumsnet had a sex topic and then suddenly it was appearing all the time. Creeped me out!!!

Well, that's hidden now. Than you so much @NashvilleQueen .

@HopeMumsnet thanks, I appreciate it. I'm sure there must be a way.

It’s only sex. We all do it 🤷🏽‍♀️

Of course we do, but the sex topic attracts its own kind of mansnetter that seems rather odd to encourage.

I agree. No apology for people who might have found it triggering..and a refusal to engage with the "coincidental" timing of the release their Mumsnet sex toy (for people with vulvas)

They could have at least given people advance notice and a clear explanation of how to hide the topic.

There were perfectly good reasons for the Sex topic not appearing in Active.

Nothing has changed other than MN selling vibrators.

Gah, I'm as irritated by the "explanation" as I am by the threads.

Why does a moderator need to get back to a user about how to hide topics in MN own app? Surely it should be easy and easily explainable?

interesting way of doing things

Indeed. When we implement a policy change at work, we look at the reasons for the existing situation, what has changed since it was put in place, and why that would necessitate a change in policy. I have seen no such reasoning from MN so far.

Some of you are very fragile. It's sex. It's not an Isis recruitment!

I had wondered where all the sex stuff was suddenly coming from. Agree I'd rather not have it on active. If I need to discuss that stuff I can go find it, no one needs it on active.

It’s not being fragile. That topic was never in Active and now it is, people hid it and are now having to hide it again. That’s all it is. 🙄

Well lucky you that there's nothing in a sex topic you would find triggering

Add my vote to hiding it again please.

Ps I'm a premium user (for FWR to say thanks for supporting debate, different username there) but if the topic is still in active at renewal time I'll withdraw my subscription. Could do with the £50 and I'm sure others will vote with their wallets too.