This is squarely on the military personnel ordering buttplugs to their work address.

If you did that anywhere else you'd get in trouble.

In some fairness it sounds like the Kingdom of Bahrain are the weird ones here. But still, it sounds like all other arguments aside, she has no way of knowing if a soldier is any particular place. So asking her to stop sending to soldiers in that region is kind of pointless.

Everyone in the Trump admin needs a butt plug, given how full of shit they are

It's pretty standard for American commenters on social media to unthinkingly assume that American law is somehow "universal." I guess that's the level that the American government in general has descended to at this point.

Sounds like Secretary Kegseth doesn't have enough things to do.

If I recall correctly this was more an amusing story of troops stationed in a country where these items were illegal ordering these things to the base and the military trying to remind people to respect local laws. This is probably more about the military not wanting a diplomatic incident with the host country than them morality policing themselves. Reminding a business to not ship items to a country where those items are illegal seems a pretty reasonable thing. For now the US military doesn't care if you order butt plugs to the base, they care if you bring butt plugs into a country where they are illegal.

Ah so it's not just the department of war it's also Bahrain's backwards laws, and the US is obligated to do this any time shit gets sent back I guess.

It's really silly since she even says they have no idea where it's going when they ship to soliders.

War on Buttplugs?

Willing to bet over half of those orders are gag gifts

She should mail a bunch of butt plugs to the Pentagon.

Apparently the US Department of ~~Defense~~War

You had it right the first time.

Congress hasn't made the name change official.

It's not legally changed just because Trump waved his magic ~~wand~~ sharpie and wished it to change.

This means war.

Great we are going to get huge tariffs on butt plugs.

So what I find interesting is that this exact story was reported in CTV like a week ago, but in this one, the reasoning has changed somehow?

https://www.ctvnews.ca/toronto/article/stop-sending-butt-plugs-to-bahrain-toronto-sex-store-receives-letters-from-us-department-of-war/

Originally reported, the problem was that Bahrain does not allow adult items to be shipped to them. But the adult shop said that it actually doesn't ship to Bahrain and most of Asia because of rules like that making it more complicated to do business. Owner said that it was likely forwarded to a base (so a third party shipper, ~~something the shop has zero control over~~.)

But in this one, the rationale has changed to "these objects are dangerous", and I don't see focus being placed on the third-party ~~seller~~ shipper.

edit: shipper, not seller. We don't know if this was after market, just that it's not directly shipped. They might actually have some amount of control over that, if that's the case, because they would have needed to label the original package as being shipped to Bahrain.

The more I think about this story, the more I think that it's being ramped up as a "look how the US military is interfering with canada on behalf of a middle eastern country!" instead of like "someone made a mistake by ordering something not allowed in Bahrain, and the business didn't check whether they were allowed to ship it there or not." I dont get what the big deal here is. This actually kinda looks bad on the business now that I take a second look at it.

The store was in Canada, so DOW can just fuck off, eh, please.

Apparently the US Department of ~~Defense~~War thinks that they can order non-US citizens not resident in the USA to cease and desist from mailing things.

It's not to stop mailing things. It's to stop mailing things to them. That should be a basic right. I want nothing more than to be able to tell my grocery store to stop mailing me anything, and I'm sure most employers don't want their employees having dildos delivered to their work, especially in places where possession of such items is illegal.

If you're engaged in international business you do actually have to respect the laws of the countries you operate in.