Comments on: An Open Letter to CVS “Sensitive Lady Products” Salespeople

By: Nate

Nate — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 20:33:08 +0000

If people didn’t steal it, it wouldn’t be locked up. With each box being 10-15$, grabbing 5 and bolting is an easy 25$ after you sell it to some bodega. It’s pretty obvious. Teach people not to steal and SLP become unlcoked

By: yup yup

yup yup — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 18:34:07 +0000

Don’t forget Bed Bath & Behind: when you want a jumbo condom pack from locked cases (pretty cheap with 20% off coupon) they chat it up on their walkie-talkies. Volume up full blast: “Somebody wants condoms” “I need a key for CONDOMS!”… Wonder why I started buying on Amazon?

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By: Amanda Hess

Amanda Hess — Tue, 05 May 2009 18:38:54 +0000

Elyse, ugh. At least she acknowledged you … I guess.

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By: Elyse

Elyse — Tue, 05 May 2009 02:53:35 +0000

I had one woman at the CVS register ask me if I liked the product I was buying! She then asked if I would recommend it to someone else! It was pretty awkward!!!

By: Shaker Caitiecat

Shaker Caitiecat — Sat, 02 May 2009 04:51:10 +0000

OMG. That’s…what freaking century is your country living in, anyway?

Up here in Soviet Canuckistan, the SLPs are where they belong: on the shelves with everything else. How sad that we are not so free and liberty-loving as our neighbours to the south. o.O

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Last Week’s Most Popular Blog Posts - The Sexist - Washington City Paper — Fri, 01 May 2009 20:00:10 +0000

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By: Amanda Hess

Amanda Hess — Fri, 01 May 2009 17:14:11 +0000

I like thinking of the Sexist as an “It.”

By: Labyrinth

Labyrinth — Fri, 01 May 2009 16:36:35 +0000

The Sexist has outdone itself with this article. I am horrified that SLPs (sensitive lady products) are locked up so that one has to face additional humiliation to purchase them. This seems downright degrading and punitive. As for stores that lock up condoms–you have got to bloody be kidding me. Any barrier to buy condoms may discourage those who need them the most, like teenagers. If it was up to me, free condoms would be in every public bathroom, and high school bathroom, by the bucketfuls. When are we going to move into the 21st century??? AIDS and STD prevention needs to trump Puritanical and sexist attitudes in order for any real public health changes to work.

Thank you for writing this article. I fully plan to give CVS, who has gotten a lot of my business over the years, a piece of my mind.

By: Amanda Hess

Amanda Hess — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 23:23:32 +0000

Jamie, totally. And condoms are still locked up in some District CVS stores. Save Lives Free the Condoms bravely documents CVS’ fucked up contraception access here:

http://savelivesfreethecondoms.blogspot.com/

At the store I went to, the condoms were in the “vending machine” style and the Sensitive Lady Product I required was locked up. We can’t stop at condoms.

By: Jaime Oswaldo Grande

Jaime Oswaldo Grande — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 22:18:56 +0000

“Sensitive Man Products need not be locked behind glass doors”

It took years of lobbying to get them under “power wing” instead of under lock and key. Which I suppose is a lower hurdle but, still ridiculous considering DC’s HIV rate.

By: suicide_blond

suicide_blond — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 20:37:24 +0000

seeee..i told everyone in college..THIS is exactly the type of situation that calls for “room mates from New Jersey”!!! southerners + sensitive lady products + CVS employee = disaster BUT if you simply add Jersey Girl to the equation…well.. whew… Chaos ensues!
xoxo

By: FilthyGrandeur

FilthyGrandeur — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 20:23:16 +0000

wow. that’s so fucking ridiculous. it’s none of their damn business why you require any product, and it’s certainly not their place to make suggestions about products or pass judgment on you, the customer. that’s a nice side of shame and douchebaggery you got with your product. i hate cvs.