Vile vile Ann Summers product

[Dillytante]

Apologies if there has already been a thread on this.

Bj strap

I actually don't know what to say about this.

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"'Sex becomes something to consume, rather than to discover."

Yup to this too.

McSex is good.

Sakura is also good on this subject, she posts very eloquently about how finding out what you like, with your peers, on your own terms and without loads of "suggestions" from the commercial sector, is simply marvellous

My 16 year old niece has been in Ann Summers.

I used to go to the local bookshop when I was 16 with my boyfriend and sit on the floor and look at the joy of sex with him

ffs corrupt. Stereotypes much?

So yes I'd have been in anne summers perusing the bj straps with interest. Not as much interest as my boyfriend, I suspect...

How did your niece feel about the experience corrupt.

I also went into a sex shop at 16. I bought my first vibrator.

She was my first known feminist.

I didnt even kiss anyone till 16!

I don't think that not for sale on the high street = disgusting.

People are pretty relaxed about people doing whatever they want in private but still don't want to see it on the high street. FGS I want pg 3 got rid of. hardly going to give a big "yay" to BJ strap demos in boots.

I think she found it "an experience". I was banned from telling her mother, if that says anything.

Sardine and corrupt you were braver than me

I wouldnt even go in now!

To fair though sardine, boots is not fair game but Ann summers does trade in sex....

I go in regularly. :o

I wasn't aware they were giving demonstrations of this. Not for sale on the high street due to pressure to get rid of it because it is nasty = disgusting.

Ann Summers is hardly a family shop. You can't buy buggies or baby formula at Ann Summers.

LadyBeagleEyes, The Women's Room is a life changing book. Not bad for a work of fiction written by a woman in a god-damn patriarchy about patriarchy.

I love that book. Feminist consciousness raising at its best. Well done that woman, I'm still surprised sometimes that it was ever published. The one that got away.

Not for sale on high street = INAPPROPRIATE not disgusting

Boots sell lube and those ring things now so you never know... OK I exaggerated but that is the crux of my difficulty with it

Boots sell cock rings? I was unaware of this. goes to Boots website

I suppose I feel fundamentally that sex is something private. If people want to go to a swinging club that's fine but if they're all at in on the park over the road not so. If people want to purchase paraphernalia related to whatever it might be then fine but it doesn't need to be in a shop window. If a bloke wants to look at a porn mag that's up to him but do it at home not on the tube. That sort of thing.

Ooh, you mean the 30% more powerfuk vibrating ring. How is that inappropriate?

But the difference between the park and the swinging club is that children play in the park. Nobody is suggesting that children go into Ann Summers and be shown how a bj strap works.

It's not inappropriate.

Japanese bondage ropes, BJ straps or auto-erotic asphyxiation equipment would be.

Mind you there was a big hoo-ha when they started selling them, a lot of people were upset. So maybe they would be best off kept to internet retailers as well.

Blimey whisky I was imagining they'd be doing it in the evening!!!! Not while there were children there!!!

SQ - do you think it's wrong that Boots sell lube? I for one am glad that I can pick it up with normal shopping and don't have to go and find a specialist shop.

Me personally? No, and cock rings and excitingly flavoured condoms are fine by me too.

But I just remembered that when they started selling the rings there was a lot of complaint so I need to take into account that what is fine by me is not fine for others, and consider their feelings.

It's a "where do you draw the line" question, isn't it.