hexbomb.net

Softcore pornography! Avoid!

I am very much in to Halloween and the gothic aesthetic. I also love a soak in the bath with a good bath bomb. So this company was right up my street!However, I recently saw almost in my Instagram feed of a woman with her breasts out with just some long hair covering her nipples and some dark water at the very bottom of the screen. On looking back over the last 2 - 3 years there are a lot of similar posts. I am very much against sexualising products that aren't sexual just to sell them. I think it's lazy, offensive and outdated. I also think it's sending the wrong message to young people. Especially when most of the pictures they report are women and the sexually explicit images are all women. I made a comment on the post mentioned above in which I expressed my concern but wasn't rude. I got a very defensive response with Hexbomb stating that they don't create the images. They simply report what customers/fans send them. In essense, "we don't pick or pay any of our models so don't have a go at us". They then insinuated that I'm some sort of prude of I'm somehow offended by women's bodies.I replied and stated that this is simply not true. I reiterated my points above, still remaining polite, even complimented their products but asked why they have to make something not sexual, sexual and why are they specifically using naked women. I got a passive aggressive response which ended with them telling me to message them in private rather than comment on their page. I replied that I was happy to have the conversation in public and made the points again. After defending myself against 2 other people for my own opinions, instead of answering me or stopping any insults, they blocked me. I messaged them privately from a different account that I use to review products, rather than my personal one. The didn't respond and blocked me on that one as well. In short, they are a lazy company that doesn't pay models bit simply reposts photos of predominantly women that they are tagged in. They've reposted many sexually explicit photos of women bit their page isn't age restricted. They don't post any sexually explicit photos of men, in fact they barely post photos of men at all. They are not spreading a body positive message as most of hear women are slim and what society would deem as "attractive". They claim they couldn't sell bath products any other way when companies like Lush are far more successful without resorting to being sexually explicit. They are sexualising a product that is inherently not sexual. They would rather block and ignore people, therefore silencing them, rather than allowing customers/fans/the general public make their own minds up themselves. I am disgusted by how I as grate as someone who's bought their products many times and was polite in my dealings with them regardless of the fact that we have opposing views. I just hope my niece doesn't see their page and think it's ok to use her body to get what she wants or that she needs to be sexual in order to be successful/popular.

Date of experience: Oct 24, 2020