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3 points by venuur 5 years ago

Minor49er 5 years ago |

Amazon sells everything, including adult toys. I wouldn't let a toddler search on Amazon unsupervised, let alone the vast majority of the web.

eesmith 5 years ago |

I see it too. The title doesn't contain the word "dildo" in it, but rather "Dìdlo". It also contains "Mạssagêrs vịborạters tọps ạdult Tọys Plêasurê cọuplẹs sêt sẹxy tọystory Christmas".

I did a search for "dildo", and the top hits contain "Ði-dlo", "Ðil'dÖ", "Ðíldǒ", and other misspellings.

My guess is that Amazon uses keyword filters to prevent "dildo"s from being on the search results, that vendors know this, and use alternatives that look like the word "dildo" ... and Amazon's text search uses a different algorithm to identify words than the filtering.

one2know 5 years ago |

Leftists that you might find in Seattle or San Fransisco don't consider a dildo something that kids should not know about or see in a search result. An e-commerce company I worked for advertised them frontpage above the fold, no age check. Chalk it up to cultural relativism of the left.

gurleen_s 5 years ago | |

This is an incredible oversimplification of the left. I know plenty of leftists (like, hardcore socialists) who probably wouldn’t show that to their kid either. Do you really think Amazon sells sex toys because it fits some leftist agenda or because it sells?

one2know 5 years ago | | |

No they sell them for money, like the place I worked. They are just so culturally tone deaf that they think its ok for kids because its a "woman" thing and thus, au naturel. Like taking kids shopping for your tampons because it show powerful womanhood or whatever. This was definitely the attitude among the retail org of mostly Seattle women I worked with. None questioned selling vibrators and dildos on the front of the site.