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Target Selling Anal Massage?!

Either Target is branching out into really, really odd products and services or some intern thought it would be a funny joke and will probably lose his job.  Check out this page on Target’s site that claims to be selling anal massage for $35.96.

I wonder how many times something like this has happened and been caught by the public?  And how many of the people responsible for the gaffes were fired for it?

I’m pretty sure the link will go dead soon, so I took a screenshot of it for your enjoyment.

Russ's gravatar Russ United States November 22, 2004

I have no idea how you even found that in the first place.

Chris's gravatar Chris United States November 22, 2004

Yeah, well… uh… ahem…

No, seriously, I found it on a site called Boing Boing which usually has several interesting posts per day about all kinds of things.

It turns out that the Target site and Amazon share a lot of common information between them, so there was some mingling of content between the two. If you used the product number from the Target site inside of the Amazon site, then you get a book on Anal Massage.

Still, it’s pretty surprising to see it in the first place.

Russ's gravatar Russ United States November 22, 2004

100 years ago, you could buy vibrators in the Sears catalog. It sounds dangerous, but they were important for curing such things as “female madness”.

Chris's gravatar Chris United States November 22, 2004

I remember reading about that. It was hilarious how they pitched them. “Female madness”... haha!

Russ's gravatar Russ United States November 26, 2004

Now they’ve got weed.

Not sure how long that link will be there.

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