• ThePyroPython@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    Christ, I wish Americans would get over their embarrassment that half their population has a vagina.

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    9 months ago

    Not loving guns and murder? Unamerican communist!

    Talking about a lady’s body parts or for that matter anything remotely related to sexuality? Jesus Christ won’t someone please save our children from this fate worse than death!?

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      9 months ago

      Right now…you might want to start loving guns.

      I don’t know if you haven’t noticed but there are literal nazis in the Whitehouse.

      This anti-gun shit needs to stop from progressives. The fascist already have them.

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    9 months ago

    Hypocrisy. Bought some lube on amazon, and they sent a print pamphlet ad for vibrators to my parents adress addressed to me but now they want to talk about embarrassing?

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    9 months ago

    Looking up Vuva, they sell neodymium magnet embedded dildos. I can’t speak to the medical efficacy, I’m just saying what they look like.

    Somehow Amazon doesn’t like that but is OK with actual dildos?

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      Oh my god, it’s so bad.

      “Soft tissue lengthens, relaxing muscles and ligaments. As the tissue relaxes, the Neodymium magnets increase blood flow to the area calming nerves and promote relaxation. VuVa™ are the only patented sets available with Neodymium magnets.”

      “Magnetic Therapy is based on the premise that all living organisms exist in a magnetic field, including the human body. The human body generates its own magnetic field. Therefore, the body can heal itself when electromagnetic energy is in balance.”

      It’s like those stupid magnet bracelets and elbow wraps, only for your vagina. It’s all woo.

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        9 months ago

        The product is a vaginal dialator, which has evidence supporting its use in treatment of several medical conditions. The distinction from a dildo has more to do with intended use than form.

        The magnets are just woo.

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          9 months ago

          Oh, no disagreements with dilators; they’re essential for e.g., women with vaginismus that want to have ‘normal’ sexual relationships.

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      9 months ago

      Magnets are snake oil. They have no effect on the human body. Don’t waste your money.

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        9 months ago

        I disagree. The human body is mostly water. Water is slightly diamagnetic. Therefore, a sufficiently strong magnet is capable of levitating a human body off the ground.

        Magnets can definitely have an effect, just not at puny neodymium magnet levels!

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          I have a strong but as of yet untested theory that no human will ever levitate based on magnitized internal human water.

          A magnet sufficiently strong enough to levitate a human based on the water in the body is more likely to remove the water from the body instead.

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            9 months ago

            It works on frogs. The force is distributed over the whole body, so it’s no worse than gravity is on our bodies.

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        9 months ago

        The funny part is that there’s very little reason to actually buy a barrel of lube. In porn, they just mix their own lube using distilled water (available cheaply from virtually any grocery or hardware store) and a dissolvable powder. There’s not a good reason to ship wet lube in bulk, because freight shipping is calculated by weight and you’re essentially just paying to ship water. The added benefit is that the porn makers can mix the lube to be a thinner or thicker consistency, depending on their specific needs.

        For the curious, look up J-lube, X-lube, K-lube, or Fist Lubricant Powder. And yes, all of the above are available for purchase on Amazon.

        And to drive the point home that you’re just paying for freight shipping… J-lube powder is currently $26.77 for 10oz, which makes 10 liters of lube when mixed per the manufacturer’s recommended dosage. So $26.77 for 10 liters, plus probably $3 for the distilled water you need to mix it with. Let’s round up to an even $30 in total. The barrel is currently $1775.32 for 7080fl.oz, or ~209.4 liters. So the barrel is ~$8.47 per liter, while the dry powder mix is ~$3.00 per liter. The barrel is almost 3x as much per liter as the dry powder.

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          9 months ago

          Gotta respect that math, but value might still be possible.

          55 gallons of water weighs about 459lbs (208kg), so that barrel is in that range.

          Get 10 friends to chip in and order the barrel. Use those 10 friends to lift and leave that barrel somewhere that is highly visible, like the front porch of an ex-wife or ex-husband. Maybe your local police station if you are from a small town?

          If that is worth $1,700 to someone, I can’t really say. I have paid more (per pound) for less significant practical jokes before though.

          (It would be cheaper to use another barrel, actual water, and just fake the package label though. Real lube would just be for show but it would show that you have great attention to detail.)

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    Lol but they are fine with reminding me constantly of the one time I bought syringes for “a friend” with addiction years ago.

    Edit: to be clear I don’t use Amazon anymore as of last year and this is another good reason why.

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    9 months ago

    Once I order tampons on Amazon. They just put a shipping label directly on a single box.

    I’m not embarrassed by stuff like that, but how weird.

  • ✺roguetrick✺@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    Fuck Amazon but it would be nice if we had an FDA to get rid of this crank magnet health product that WIRED is promoting.