And Lube for All
This is just a typical Russian mart-like store for everyday needs - grocery, etc.
One of our readers had made a closer look to the goods they sell right near the cashier and was shocked with what items are freely available for everyone right at the cashier between candies and chewing gums. Let’s take a closer look:
So this is a place near cashiers. Kids and grown ups all together pay for their goods.
And right above it there is a big ad with a kissing pair. It’s marked with a green arrow on the pic above. With the second green arrow you can see an items this ad is for. We can’t see it very clear from here, let’s look closer.
Yes, here it is. Need to get bit closer still.
So what is that? It’s a sex lubricant from a famous condom making brand, sitting on the best spots around the cashier with a word “Romantic” on it, in two colors with “Strawberry” and “Mint” flavor.
And yes there are condoms two.
The reader who submitted this wonders, how often kids ask parents questions like “What is that strawberry thing is used for?”. The Cashiers couldn’t give him any answer but said it’s forbidden to make photos. What a pity.
submitted by GG
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It is very common in Lithuania and I think in all baltic countries.
Is it uncommon elsewhere?
It is very very common in Spain too!
Its also common in Slovakia and in other central European countries I think, normal stuff
You could call this “standard operating procedures” here in Europe where we do not have a problem with teenage pregnancies / abortions…
USA = hipocracy
they certainly wouldnt do it in detroit, but they should. too many fucking puritans in this city. would be interesting to be behind a parent explaining that its not candy, though. “but mom, its STRAWBERRYYYYYYYY…..”
“too many fucking puritans”
somehow, that just doesn’t sound right, no matter how many times I read it
is also next to the register in almost every bigger grocery shop in Poland - it’s a normal thing to use them and really nothing to get so Victorian about. unless you live in some super prudish country…
It depends on shops.
I remember when few years ago I made shopping with my 5 years old daughter. I was in bad humour and during reading shopping list (made by my wife) I read loudly: ‘rubber wellingtons ?!!! What the rubber wellingtons for ?!’.
My child asked: ‘daddy, what for we want the rubber wellingtons ?!’.
‘Oh … hm … I think that mummy has made mistake’.
Then I went to cosmetics section and started to take some condoms.
My daughter asked: daddy, why there is a strawberry on the item ?.
- Hm, hony, it’s wet hanky in this pack with strawberry flavour.
Then I took last few condoms from other sort.
And my daughter asked again: daddy, why there is TWO SMILING GHOST on the picture ?
I don’t see the problem. First the strawberries thing was put by some costumer and not by the shop. About the condoms, well it is very normal. Not only in Russia, or the Baltic countries, but in Western Europe, and in some states in US.
But what worries me more is that this stupid mentality has come to Russia. I mean ‘OMG, look I see a condom, OMG, OMG…let’s sue the shop for showing me a condom OMG’. That stupid mentality, well it is more hysteria, you sometimes see in the US and now also in Europe.
BTW I don’t mean that ALL Americans are stupid with using ‘US’ and ’stupid’ in the same sentence. It only refers to the origin of this stupidity/hysteria.
That is not a proper display case. I think some joker simply put them there as a prank.
Yes, I agree. It’s obviously a prank or mistake.
But if they are put like in 4 or 6 photo, then it’s normal.
Take a good look at images #3 and #4, you can cleary see a proper display case there
yes, it’s uncommon in US… country full of too religious poeple…
Sometime I wonder if it’s not better to live in Saudi Arabia
In Brazil it’s pretty common to see condoms next to the cashiers, although I’ve never seen lube
Its common too in China, we can find condoms in many places, especially in most convenient stores (7Eleven…), just next to the cashier, and near the candies
I don’t see the problem at all. Unless the manager starts wearing them in public or organizing demonstrations.
@ topic-starter:
One of our readers had made a closer look to the goods they sell right near the cashier and was shocked with what items are freely available for everyone right at the cashier between candies and chewing gums…
Let me guess, pal, if «one of your readers» will see Carefree or Tampax or (God forbid!) Durex being sold at regular shop, then, shocked, will he point a finger, screaming, or just fall unconscious?
Damn, I always knew that you puritans are sick a lot.
Now remember this and don’t be a laughingstock next time: selling such things is plain normal, and there’s nothing wrong when they’re «freely available for everyone right at the cashier». And lube is not a dildo, you know.
I don’t know about Detroit, but it’s common here in Canada.
You find condoms and lubricant freely available in all stores in Belgium. No need to go to a pharmacy or ask the cashier…
It’s nothing to be ashamed of… When your kid asks what it is, you just answer that you better had worn it when you had intercourse with his/her mother :p
What’s the big fucking deal, if you pardon my pun?
Sorry for plurar form mistake - too quick writing.
well I also was a curious child and asked about them when I was still young and innocent
So fucking what??
Hey, what’s wrong with that? It’s a part of one’s life, why are you so offenced? It’s normal in Czech republic where I live. And if a kid asks, he/she should get a true answer. Come on. We are not living in middle ages. It’s the same as you would be shy for buying a toilet paper.
Where I live, condoms are sold at the cash point, lubricant is sold in the same department as toothpaste, pantyliners, shaving foam etc.
What the photo suggests to me is an indecisive customer who did not bother to put the goods back to their racks, leaving them at the cashier´s instead.
Quite common.
It’s quite common in Hungary too. Well… not lubricants… but condoms are usually sold at the cash point.
They shouldnt put condoms or lube near the cashier desk next to childrens sweets, its not right; anyone who says that this sort of stuff is acceptable is a fucking sicko. I live in England which has become probably the most sex-obsessed and sexually vulgar country in europe; even here they wouldnt be so indiscreet as to put condoms near the till. I dont know what this says about Russia, but it shows they have no standards of decency at all. All those shit-faces who think I’m a prude for saying this then go and fuck yourself. There is no need to put condoms or lube at the till. If anyone wants them they should go to the pharmacy section at the back of the store. Fucking disgrace.
Are you taking the piss? Condoms are available at the till of every shop in England including the big supermarkets, petrol stations, corner shops etc. How do you combat the problem of unwanted teenage pregnancies if you don’t offer a means of protection? If you go down to the clinic condoms are on FREE ISSUE! Fuck you and your retarded, introverted, prudish sense of self righteousness. It has nothing to do with decency, the decent thing would be to use condoms if you ever do get laid.
Also common in Ukraine. What’s the point of joke? The submitting reader is too naive?
My oh my. Such a bunch of judgmental people who comment here.
Also very common in Germany…
This is normal in Slovenia, too - except the lube thing he he
Americans don’t sell condoms on the counter of a grocery stores?
It’s a question of ethics. The management should consider the type of customers that shop there. What you consider normal is nor necessarily normal to other people. I’d favor a more discreet placement of such items as tampons, condoms and sex lube.
Yes a shop where you can buy food - I have seen these
The lube is common in the US but they don’t put it where you pay for your items. It is in the back of the store.
Boomboom: I bet you don’t get much boomboom! You probably never get to use any of these products!
I don’t think you do live in England… every corner shop, petrol station, supermarket has condoms on display everywhere!
Or…. is it just another way of saying that Russia has no standards?
Yawn… more transparent anti-russian crap
In Finland it’s also completely normal to have comdoms next to the cashier in supermarkets.
Perhaps in the USA it would be considered weird - but then again, in USA they probably have guns for sale next to cashier’s… Whatever suits your fancy though, after all, they take care of the same thing - condoms are used to prevent unwanted pregnancies, and guns are used to take care of the results of unwanted pregnancies.
Hehe last year I bought a FAL (assault rifle) in a parking lot right next to a complex of big-box stores. No government paperwork/background check/anything and it’s 100% legal in most states. Fucking Obama monkey jumper might try to change that tho. Anyway,in the one grocery store I usually go to condoms are in the same locked case w/ cigarettes/pregnancy test/tobacco. If it’s a country store ammo is out in the open tho. The solution: best of both worlds; put the guns+ammo+condoms+lube+sex toys all by the register. Then the store makes more money. Heh, they probably have something like that in Russia already.
wtf
must be a us punk who has a problem with some creem
and rubba.
poor bastard. get laid
As a conclusion I can figure that it’s very common thing in the countries - the biggest suppliers of cheapest whores in the world…
LENTA! LENTA!
I don’t see anything wrong in food stores selling condoms. I was surprised to see the lube, honestly, I have never seen it in food stores in Russia. Will have a closer look when I go shopping next time. Anyways, I think it’s rather uncommon.
wow, what a sensation…
but probably only in russia where they live with dark ages mentality…
What? In czech republic it’s normal that condoms are at cash desks. When I go for condoms I usually go right to cash desk, it’s very common, like a rule or something.
I haven’t seen lube in that place here, but it looks more like somebody put it there when he changed his mind.
Maybe in united states they have speacial 21+, limited access red light, adults only room in stores to sell condoms and lubes, but here in continental europe… no big deal, we fuck, we use condoms and we want them to be quickly reachable.
Actually I’m pro-Russian and thats why I hate US neocons stirring shit on Russia’s borders.
But anyway, I dont tend to use condoms because your mum likes me to empty myself into her. I rather prefer it as well. Do thank her when you see her!
Didn’t think you were getting much Boom Boom. She’s been dead for 25 years…..
In Belgium you’ll find condoms by the register everywhere. They just put in there because otherwise when it would be somewhere in the store some people might just open the box and steal the condoms. It’s the same reason why they put the razors at the register. But it goes further than condoms, you’ll find lube and even small toys like a vibrating ring to put on your dick for extra pleasure. Nobody in belgium has a problem with that. It’s made by the durex condom firm and it is in a colourfull but discrete box with some text on it describing what it is. I think this is a good thing. People should not act so prudish about it. When your kids ask what it is just tell them what it’s for. Maybe then when they get old enough they’ll know how to use it and where to get it instead of doing it without anything and ending up with a nice surprise within 9 months. People have sex! it is something normal so act normal. Don’t be such a wanker about it. Or maybe it’s just because you’re a wanker you don’t know what you are talking about.
Igor not use condoms, no need point cuz im can’t make a baby cuz the nuclear waste truck made me sterile
Although historically being criticised it is the Russian modernism that get over with the sex. May be not completely but still promising, Russians and western Asia seem to have some moral know-how for sexual liberation.
On the western side the last assault for the “perfect freedom” was that of the hippies, which short-circuited very shortly. Nothing lost and nothing gained. Overly masculine dialects just don’t let. And the wesstern extremity, the US. Sadly it is not as modern as it was back in the 1970’s.
is that LENTA or what?
You can see this in germany too
Oh this is SO unexciting. It’s somewhat unlikely to see sex products near the cash register in a grocery here in Germany, but they will be displayed visibly in the body care section. You will also find them at cash register in drugstores such as DM/Schlecker/Kaiser’s and whatnot.
What’s the problem here? Washing powder, potatoes, condoms, lube. It doesn’t say children’s store anywhere, does it? They sell alcohol in normal shops as well. They sell magazines with violence and nudity. Locking up the kids at home seems the only solution, or let them face the world we live in. And when the kids ask what stuff is for - tell them the way it is. This says more of the complexes of the commenter.
- Max, Swedish citizes livng and working in Russia since many years back.
I’m from Turkey and you can buy condoms next to the cashier. Sometimes I think some people really want to throw shit to Russia.
OMG so what???
sexual education…
it’s stupid, that in US you dont even mention about that things near childrens/teenages.
in Europe it’s common and normal thing.
You can see this in ROMANIA too, in Kaufland supermarkets
So what..
In canada condoms and lubes are sold in regular stores too..
In fact Shoppers Drug Mart is the place to go for this everyday product..
They got toys and diapers in one isle.. and condoms in the next… I don’t see anyone complain about that…