sex
May 2, 2024

Buying Men: From badboys and cleaning utensils

On the online dating site "Shop A Man" you can buy men. Or rather choose for free. Who likes the customer is placed in the shopping cart; Men can apply for a seat in the shopping cart. We're not quite sure yet what we find more strange: the page's target audience (women "looking for the right man for a handbag") - or that the platform has more than 300,000 members.

"Shop A Man" is not even the only offer of this kind. The dating site works quite similarly "Adopt A Guy", recently started in Germany. Subtitles: "The online store with male objects". In television commercials, the makers of love-hungry single women want to whet their appetite for the men offered: in slow motion, a man throws back his dreadlocks, while a woman's voice praises his "sun-kissed skin" and promises "irresistibly delicate temptation with boundless soft lips". In another spot the voice raves about the tattooed "Badboy", a lettering informs: "Frame: Protector arms". On sale there are curly heads, as a special offer "bears, soft and tamed", and who wants to get to know a man from nearby, looking for "regional products". You can find that funny. Refreshingly different. With us the offer triggers rather a scare.

Quirky offers: men to buy

And then there is still there "Ehemannzumieten.de" - That sounds like escort service, but in fact the portal conveys craftsmen who repair fences and assemble shelves. What should the label of the hired husband, we ask ourselves. As nasty side blow of the customers against their own partner, according to the motto: "Because you do not hang the lamp for weeks, I rent now another husband, who makes it for me"? Dear providers: Do you really think that we women need something like that? That we prefer to get sweaty artisan rescuers into our apartments, if we may call them "rented husbands"? Um: no.

No husbands, but cleaning aids are provided by the Berlin agency "PutzPimmel", The so-called "PuPis" swing in the apartment of their customers the mop - and nude, or on request also dressed with a lace-edged apron with penis symbol.

We wonder if everything is full of pubic hair afterwards. And whether the men are called clean-up, because with their - excuse the idiom - Pimmelnen clean. In reality, men are particularly likely to find sexy sexy - they make up the majority of customers.

Also we would not become weak in Nacktputzern, just as with the other offers. Because people are turned into commodities here? and that is sexism. The fact that it is an exception for men and not women, does not make things better.