On 13 Jun 2002 at 0:08, Ixbalam wrote:
>On Wednesday, June 12, 2002, at 11:26 , tenchimasaki71 wrote:
>
>> You could be 100% right; to that I'll admit. I guess I just don't want to
>> believe that a company that mainly manufactures toys for children (yes, I
>> know adults like Sanrio too; I'm one of them) also puts their star
>> character on a vibe. As I said, I enjoy both the cute and the twisted,
>> and a lot of the time I like it when they do the whole "you got your
>> chocolate in my peanut butter" thing... but this just kind of creeps me
>> out. And that's not an easy thing to do.
>
>Maybe the people at Sanrio are just a little more open minded than most
>Americans are. Around these parts 'religious' groups get up in arms if
>school sex ed programs dare to teach about masturbation, but in Japan with
>a totally different attitude it's a whole other matter. If they sell just
>about everything else with HK on it, why not vibrators too? To me it's
>the attitude on this side of the Pacific that's twisted. I mean, Mattell
>used to make M-16 stocks. That's both twisted and funny.
Well... to an injection molding machine, plastic is plastic. Whether
it's black plastic being molded into a shoe for Barbie*, or black
plastic being molded into a rifle butt...
Falbert
* - Barbie is TM, (C), (R), Patented and otherwise property of Mattel -
please don't sue me.
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Received on Thu Jun 13 2002 - 08:52:16 CDT