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Britain

When Toymakers Go Stark Raving Mad

2006-10-25

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Tesco has been forced to remove a pole-dancing kit from the toys and games section of its website after it was accused of "destroying children's innocence". The Tesco Direct site advertises the kit with the words, "Unleash the sex kitten inside...simply extend the Peekaboo pole inside the tube, slip on the sexy tunes and away you go!

"Soon you'll be flaunting it to the world and earning a fortune in Peekaboo Dance Dollars".

The £49.97 kit comprises a chrome pole extendible to 8ft 6ins, a 'sexy dance garter' and a DVD demonstrating suggestive dance moves.

The kit, condemned as 'extremely dangerous' by family campaigners yesterday, was discovered by mother of two Karen Gallimore who was searching for Christmas gifts for her two daughters, Laura 10, and Sarah, 11. Mrs Gallimore, 33, of Ellesmere Port, Cheshire, said yesterday: "I'm no prude, but any children can go on there and see it. It's just not on."

Posted by:Anonymoose

#4 I'm sure Abercrombie & Fitch will pick up any of Tesco's leftover inventory for rebranding.

Posted by: Zenster 2006-10-25 15:43

#3 There is a real (growing) market for toys geared toward adult (cf. the McFarlane models, for example), especially the ones inspired from cinema and animation, a trend coming from Japan I think. Some are really beautiful (I think about the classical Universal monsters series), there is even a batch of mags dedicaced to that, even here, and this is yet an another symptom of the infantilization of western societies.

So, my guess would be this pole-dancing kit is to be seen in that confusion between adulthood themas and toys.

Posted by: anonymous5089 2006-10-25 14:20

#2 Anyone who has seen "Little Miss Sunshine" will appreciate the humor in this story.

Posted by: Jonathan 2006-10-25 14:10

#1 "Tesco... said it was clearly marked for 'adult use'... Tesco today agreed to remove the product from the Toy section"
And why, then, do they have "adult use" products in the Toy section?

Posted by: Santa 2006-10-25 13:29

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