re: #335 gocart mozart

A sentence I never thought I would have to write.

I’m sorry. I’m gonna have to call bullshit on the 4000 accidental ball gag fatalities per year.

— The Monkey’s Paw (@TheEdMix) January 17, 2019

That’s quite the claim, trying to equate sex toy deaths with children’s gun deaths. Gunhumpers will “whatabout” anything, though I’ve never seen sex toys invoked for banning before in those arguments.

Digging into my file of erotic Romance-related materials (rummaging through my saved pages) … here it is.

Published in the category of “Economic Policy” at the Washington Post:

Sex Toy Injuries Surged after Fifty Shades of Grey Was Published (with charts tracking historical injury rate)

Correlation does not equal causation of course. The article shows all reported sex toy emergency room visits (and sex toy here can mean a lot of things you wouldn’t normally consider a sex toy). Injuries also include death (a rather dramatic injury).

The year reported with the most injuries was 2012, with 2,500. Men are most likely to be injured in the age range 40-50, women in the age range 20-30.

So yeah, that number’s bull. I thought you might want to have some statistical backup (and in things sex or kink I know where to find such information if you need to slap down a gunhumper or conservative prude).