Full page (gross) Ann Summers adverts

[JustSayWhen]

I've added a picture, though I don't know if it will be allowed. Ann Summers adverts have been popping up mid thread for a few days, mostly pictures of women in thongs and stockings from behind though also a model with crosses over her nips in some sheer thing. It's so embarrassing if I'm browsing MN in the queue for Pilates or at a coffee shop and someone looks over my shoulder and sees these tacky, porny images.

I thought ads were targeted but I have never visited the Ann Summers site in my life and never would - it's all nasty polyester, I feel itchy just seeing the adverts. I'm surprised ads featuring naked bums are ok on Mumsnet - it's really putting me off scrolling! Shouldn't they be blocked?

If anyone is belittling anyone it's not the posters who are asking what the fuss is all about

One of the anti ann summers posters accused another poster of having a shameful sex life! Just because they don't agree on the matter of MN hosting these ads.

Why is that ok?

Anyway as goback says maybe it's not fair to expect you too much from you.

Well I certainly can't reply to that incoherent gobbleygook.

I am that poster. It wouldn't be ok if I'd started it but you and your chum started throwing out insults, and are so determined to insist everyone should see these ads I can only assume such vehemence comes from your own inadeqaucies.

Oh and drop the whinging about "shaming" that's exactly what you and that other poster are trying to do to anyone who disagrees with you.

Really? You don't think those posters are trying to belittle people who find the ads offensive?
These are some of the comments from the pro Ann Summers ad brigade describing posters who object to the ads. No one could say these comments weren't trying to belittle:

Prudes

Having unhealthy sexual relationships

If they don't like the ads they should talk to a therapist

Sexually repressed

Have issues

Jealous middle-aged women who can no longer get away with wearing lingerie

All that simply because they object to seeing pictures of a woman's bare buttocks and a topless french maid outfit on threads about dementia, sexual abuse and children in Gaza.

As PP have pointed out, this advert (alone, of all the ads I've seen on MN today) doesn't have the x/ad choices button.

Why not?

Hi there, not all ads are required to have an ‘X’ to close them. Some types are designed to stay on the screen for a short time, which is allowed under standard advertising rules.

We’ve blocked a number of the ads that were flagged, but if you spot any others you think we should see, please do let us know and we’ll review them.

Thank you

Flashing Ann Summers is back tonight. I thought they had been blocked.

@BeckyAMumsnet

I have just seen the bare buttocks and stockings Ann Summers advert on a thread about death and again there was no way of getting rid of it.

I would like to know which ones you blocked if that one is still allowed on the site.

It is a bit embarrassing to get these when you are using a library. A man using in similar place would be thrown out as a sex fiend.
Not seen any today.

I do not believe anyone tolerant, balanced and professional would evict a library user over a harmless underwear advert on a website, or even for that matter an involuntary porn pop-up, unless they proceeded to have one off the wrist.

Huh?

Are you seriously saying that if a man logged into Mumsnet at a library, he'd be thrown out because of an Ann Summers advert?

Really?

The AS ads haven't been blocked at all, in fact they have got worse. They are back tonight, this time including vibrators.

Seeing ads like this should be a choice for women, not something forced upon us.

This isn't acceptable. Listen to your users.

Ah craptastic, I didn't see that one, It would have reminded me to go shopping

Kill the wabbit.

No Ann Summers today but some clothes from Shein. Some are a bit tarty. It would be fun to have some of those as a 'fun set'. Live a double life.

Just got an ad for a mankini on Facebook.

Managed not to get too mesmerised by it to scroll on.

I wouldn’t belittle the people who are upset. There may be settings where it is embarrassing - imagine it popping up in your office over three screens! But also I didn’t find the pictures very explicit myself.

@BeckyAMumsnet @HebeMumsnet The ads are back tonight, multiple flashing images, more explicit and you can't get rid of them unless you leave the page. They then reappear again on other pages.

Thank you, @TheHillsIsLonely . We'll review them again today.

They're easy to scroll past.

I seem to only see them mostly on the feminism boards. Particularly a gold thing that looks more designed for a man, namely Alan Partridge. Totally inappropriate.

@BeckyAMumsnet @HebeMumsnet I've just cone onto Site Stuff to post about these ads and seen this thread. The ads are offensive. I do not want to see some woman's arse trussed up in underwear that looks like gaffer tape, sex toys or peep-hole bras. To make it worse, there was no "x" to click on to make the bloody things disappear. I thought mumsnet was supposed to be a beacon of feminism, not a gateway to soft porn.

Hello and thank you for your patience with this - you will no longer see these ads.

MNHQ

Thank goodness. I would have had to spend a fucking fortune in smelling salts otherwise.