Oh, I dunno, there’s probably a niche for that.
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That’s one heck of a lots of sex toys you are moving there!
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Guns don’t kill people! Dildos do! 
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Nothing gets past that guy, I see.
Anyone else flash back to Fred Willard in Best in Show?
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Am I crazy, or is Walmart still the largest US retailer, while Amazon is ranked ninth?
National Retail Federation Top 100
Looks like Walmart has $508 billion in sales, vs. Amazon’s $83 billion.
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I don’t know if this guy is all that right. I was looking for an anatomically correct inflatable rhino on Amazon, and let’s just say, no luck.
Another industry gutted by robotics…
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My guess is that while some people use lube and/or condoms, they may never have a need/want for sex toys. If those items were only used together, I would question why they didn’t sell the toys along side the lube and condoms. I also think that it’s because lube and condoms are items that need to be replaced frequently, so having access to them at various places from drug stores to Walmart makes sense. Personally, I am much more selective when it comes to acquiring my sex toys. I prefer to only purchase them from a company that is not a chain, is very sex positive, that is an actual store (although they are online), and that I trust.
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The reason the Laserdisc format failed, while DVD did not, was because of a refusal to license the Laserdisc format for XXX material.
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One of my guesses has been that lube and condoms are a bit more practical, used for actual sex, and hence offered as “family planning” supplies. While so-called “sex toys” really are toys, and so more frivolous. Also, the term “sex toy” I think is a euphemism. (Also “marital aids”, “adult novelties”, etc) Without any statistics as evidence, I strongly suspect that most of these by far are used for masturbation. Although I am not clear on how such a distinction may or not be relevant to retailers.
The semantics of what people call them I think also factor into their tendency to be hidden away. Legally (in the US), people of less than 18 years old are prohibited from having sex, but not from masturbation. Also, none of the protections people insist upon for children from sex - pregnancy, disease, predation - have any applicability with regards to toys. I would be a little concerned if my kid was buying and using contraceptives, but I cannot conceive of any reason, in principle, to be alarmed about them being exposed to or using sex toys. There does not seem to be any evidence whatsoever that young people are harmed by masturbation, with or without toys. Hiding them away seems to occur only to appease the neuroses of some sex-negative adults.
As a child in the 1980s, I did experience difficulty buying erotic toys, and I still resent it!
I can relate. What I suppose my confusion here is is why more stores aren’t sex-positive. They claim to be “all about the bottom line”, despite the large demand for the sexual and the erotic. Sex is prevalent and not going anywhere, despite some people fussing about it. And it actually created all of their customers! The efforts seem to be to rigidly compartmentalize this entire area of life from everything else, without any compelling reason.
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When we were in Tokyo we wandered through a department store in the Akihabara district and strolled through a section of pornography that included schoolgirl porn with titles like “11” and “13” as well as fecal porn with graphic photos on the DVD cases.
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I agree. I personally sexually explored, enjoyed and experimented with my body at an early age. I think it helped build a foundation for the healthy attitude I have regarding sex. And I’m not just talking about the physical act of intercourse. Unfortunately I think that is not the norm. We may have easier access to sexual things via stores, the Internet, etc. these days, but I feel we are devolving when it comes to attitudes regarding sex. Sex has gone the way of eating these days. More people consume their meals from fast food places and the frozen food section of their grocery store. Families don’t prepare, cook, sit down and enjoy meals as the delicious, healthy celebration they could and should be.
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[quote=“oldtaku, post:3, topic:62506”] (including sex toys)
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Is that supposed to be notable?
Your sex-negativity is baseless, but it is judgmental and ahistorical. I hope you grow up one day.
How did you come to that conclusion from what I said?
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You have a false nostalgia for a time when sex was and should be “sacred”, you stick to a pseudohistory and have an apparently sex-negative view of casual sex.
The world would be a better place if persons like yourself took back to your fainting couches and worked on your own problems versus deciding what is right and what is healthy for others.
I suppose it might be regional, but I find variety of healthy foods much easier to come by over the past 20 years than when I grew up. Even considering restaurants, there seem to be more healthier options now. But, of course, the pre-packaged and nutrition-lacking options are still out there. I blame the economics of mass production and agricultural subsidies for having spent decades teaching people to eat what they want to sell, rather than educating people about nutrition.
sounds like they would be ideal for that market-- especially if CAV was used.
@kpinsc said that they are critical of sex-negativity. And they stated this as being a feeling. Such feelings tend to be ahistorical, stated subjectivities are not empirical.
In a statement of sex-negativity? “I’m not racist but…”
Feelings and opinions are not deserving of respect inherently of they’re terrible.
