I appear to have expressed myself poorly, because the point I was trying to make was the same as your own.
A butt plug is an anal sex toy and anal sex, despite its unexpected appeal to heterosexuals, is inextricably linked in the popular imagination with male homosexuality. I'm tempted to say that anal sex has made gay males the butt of jokes for some time, hence terms like "butt pirate" and the like. Even so, "heterosexual sodomy" has had a long and storied history (it's what Led Zeppelin's Robert Plant meant when he sang "I want to be your back door man" in Whole Lotta Love) and the butt plug as been as much of a heterosexual "marital aid" as the vibrator.
The fact that the butt plug links, a big draw for straights, were preserved DESPITE the association of anal sex with gays is supporting evidence for the hypothesis that the "adult" classification and the attendant removal from search results is indeed targeted at products considered to be "exclusively" LGBT.
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on 2009-04-13 09:16 pm (UTC)A butt plug is an anal sex toy and anal sex, despite its unexpected appeal to heterosexuals, is inextricably linked in the popular imagination with male homosexuality. I'm tempted to say that anal sex has made gay males the butt of jokes for some time, hence terms like "butt pirate" and the like. Even so, "heterosexual sodomy" has had a long and storied history (it's what Led Zeppelin's Robert Plant meant when he sang "I want to be your back door man" in Whole Lotta Love) and the butt plug as been as much of a heterosexual "marital aid" as the vibrator.
The fact that the butt plug links, a big draw for straights, were preserved DESPITE the association of anal sex with gays is supporting evidence for the hypothesis that the "adult" classification and the attendant removal from search results is indeed targeted at products considered to be "exclusively" LGBT.