Online retailer slammed for selling pornographic baby clothes

AN ONLINE retailer is facing a backlash for selling “sick” X-rated babygros, bibs and toddler T-shirts, which many say could encourage child abuse.

AN ONLINE retailer is facing a backlash for its “sick” X-rated babygros, bibs and toddler T-shirts.

The Cafe Press clothes designed for kids feature extreme slogans that refer to hardcore porn, drugs and sadomasochism.

Australian equality group Collective Shout say the products promote and encourage child abuse.

A range of bibs in the section refer to “awesome” bondage, bongs, masturbation and spanking.

The American store markets a range of 132 products in the category Adult Sex XXX Porn Baby Clothing in Australia.

They include babygros that say “F*** like a pornstar”, children’s T-shirts describing oral sex and bibs with adult slogans including “Awesome strippers”.

One design depicts the silhouette of porn star Jenna Jameson, while other children’s outfits refer to drugs, masturbation, group sex and fetishes.

A silhouette of a porn star is emblazoned on a toddler’s T-shirt.

Collective Shout campaigner Caitlin Roper told news.com.au: “Last May we confronted Cafepress over their porn-inspired imagery and slogans on baby clothing. We came across baby onesies with slogans including “I love being a gang bang s***”, “Product of Mummy Daddy rape”, “No gag reflex” and perhaps even hundreds of similar sexualised slogans on baby clothing and merchandise.

“I’m aware of activists campaigning against CafePress from as far back as 2004, for they ‘Donkey Punch’ themed items (donkey punch refers to a violent sex act).

“When we contacted them last year, they claimed it was a computer glitch and they would be implementing a system to prevent items like these being made.

A “sexy” T-shirt for toddlers is one of the less extreme offenders.

“Cafepress seems to believe that members of the public should do their job for them, and spend their time filling out countless reports on their website. Typically they locate the items and withdraw them from sale, and within a number of days or weeks similar items pop up and Cafepress has taken no measures to prevent this.”

Collective Shout is now approaching big companies including America’s ABC Network, USA Today and the Smithsonian to ask why their brands are “powered by Cafe Press”.

The outcry over Cafe Press’ graphic products for kids comes not long after a change.org petition fought to get retailer Spreadshirt to remove its pro-eating disorders T-shirts, which featured slogans including “Beautiful bulimic”.

Twitter users called the retailer’s pornographic children’s clothing “disgusting”, “sick” and “offensive”, saying they would not shop there any more.

Mel Liszewski called the clothing ”exploitative”.

Caitlin Roper said it encouraged child abuse.

Cafe Press is now trying to distance itself from the products, tweeting in response to reader complaints: “We are sorry those images made it to the site. We have removed them and are reviewing the source.”

It also said: “That terrible and hideously offensive item has been removed from our site.”

The site was also reportedly selling men’s T-shirts that read “No means yes. Yes means a**l”, but these appear to have now been removed.