{"id":17213,"date":"2012-01-08T12:55:37","date_gmt":"2012-01-08T12:55:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alexsuze.com\/?p=17213"},"modified":"2012-01-08T12:32:49","modified_gmt":"2012-01-08T12:32:49","slug":"sex-drugs-and%e2%80%a6boots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alexsuze.com\/?p=17213","title":{"rendered":"Sex, Drugs and\u2026Boots"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_17215\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-17215\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-17215\" title=\"Sex Toys Being Sold At Boots Chemists\" src=\"http:\/\/alexsuze.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/boots-toys.jpg\" alt=\"Sex Toys Being Sold At Boots Chemists\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-17215\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sex Toys Being Sold At Boots Chemists<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I did what I usually do on a Sunday morning I check out the papers but not in the old fashioned way I view them electronically online.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>As I brought up the Daily Mail the headline which caught my eye was \u201cSex Toys For Sale At Boots\u201d and my immediate reaction before reading the report was one of delight that Boots had broken the mould and took the brave step of selling adult toys.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s been a long time coming (forgive the pun.\u00a0 Lol) why should sex toy sales be restricted to adult stores?\u00a0 After all from what I could see in the images these products could quite easily have been retailed under the heading of \u201cMassagers\u201d because the store has opted for a line of products which aren\u2019t phallic in shape at all.<\/p>\n<p>I was also amazed at some of the statements in the report including this one<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFamilies said they were \u2018shocked\u2019 and \u2018disgusted\u2019 that the sex aids were on show, removed from packaging. By contrast, the Ann Summers sex-shop chain serves boxed sex aids only to those aged 18 or over in designated separate sections of its stores.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>If they had actually visited the rear of the Ann Summers store, as I have many times they would realise that the store has various sex toys out on display for people to handle and that their packaging is frequently transparent so you can clearly see the item within.\u00a0 Lol<\/p>\n<p>Sales of adult toys have been launched in 1,200 of Boots stores and I hope they continue to increase this number in the future.\u00a0 Let\u2019s make the purchasing and use of adult toys acceptable and not something to be ashamed of.<\/p>\n<p>You can read the full story here<\/p>\n<p>Read more: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-2083701\/Sex-toys-sale-Boots-view-children-Prominently-displayed-close-healthcare-products.html#ixzz1irgemtCO\">http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-2083701\/Sex-toys-sale-Boots-view-children-Prominently-displayed-close-healthcare-products.html#ixzz1irgemtCO<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I did what I usually do on a Sunday morning I check out the papers but not in the old fashioned way I view them electronically online.\u00a0 As I brought &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/alexsuze.com\/?p=17213\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[14,3,35,25],"tags":[1080,3748,113,3749],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alexsuze.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17213"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alexsuze.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alexsuze.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alexsuze.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alexsuze.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17213"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/alexsuze.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17213\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17218,"href":"https:\/\/alexsuze.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17213\/revisions\/17218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alexsuze.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alexsuze.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alexsuze.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}