Online retailer Etsy will prohibit sales of most sex toys, content that depicts sex acts and genitalia, and more starting July 29.
The indie seller published its Adult Nudity and Sexual Content policy yesterday, which states that sales of adult toys that are insertable, “applied to the genitalia,” or “designed for genitals to be inserted into them” will be prohibited. That pretty much runs the gamut — dildos, vibrators, rings, plugs, and the like will be banned.
That is the problem Etsy thinks it should be tackling rather than the fact that its small business sellers are being driven off the platform. Shows where their priorities are.
How about they get rid of the shitty dropshippers instead?
My favorite was the one that generated a ship code but never actually shipped the item, and kept telling Etsy “Oops - one more week for us to get this figured out” every time I complained with Etsy until the refund period ended, and Etsy stood behind them.
I’m never using Etsy again after that bullshit.
Lame, now Etsy is just going to be a wish or temu resalers hawking cheaply made goods, crack down on that instead Etsy.
“crack down” on their business model?
Etsy is now dead to me. Any site that bans writings or nipples is not a place that deserves my money.
Wasn’t the Hitachi Magic Wand initially sold as a “muscle massager”?
Where the hell am I supposed to go for custom-made, anatomically correct dinosaur genitalia sex toys? WTF? Please make it make sense.
“Insertable” or “designed to be inserted in to”…. Never underestimate the creativity of a horny person…
They’re messing with my retirement plans!
No, I’m not selling the stuff! That’s the problem. I better get on a shopping spree.
Let me know where all these sellers will take their wares next. I’m hoping it’s a fediverse based shopping app.
i’m trying to imagine a fediverse shopping setup where vendors and shoppers are globally trusted in an unhackable way. i’m guessing blockchain is involved?
There seems to be a discussion regarding this topic here. I found several other such conversations too. It could work!
noooo not my whiskey barrel butt plugs for the groomsmen!
As for non-realistic content — like drawings — total nudity and sex acts “without visible genitalia or anuses” are allowed, but non-realistic images of explicit acts aren’t.
Okay okay… So if we don’t SEE the anuses, but I ABSOLUTELY know that there ARE anuses under the clothes, and I’m talking I can picture these things vividly, man… So then we’re cool right, Etsy?
I have questions about the sex toy space on Etsy that I think can only be answered by a visit there
I recommend Fantasticocks and DeepFantasies.
On an unrelated note I recently just came into some massive stock of ornamental desk noodles if anyone is interested.
