October 6, 2008 | Online

Facebook censors gay retailer Priape

Facebook from its site set up by the gay men's retailer .

Priape's director of marketing and sales, Michael Ain, thinks his site is getting a bum rap for being queer focused.

"I've found sites for women in bondage, women in latex," he says. "Bondage, whips and chains training is on here. It's all women. I have to wonder if it's an antigay approach to the same stuff. I have to be curious as to what we're doing in the gay community as opposed to what other groups are doing."

There was no warning that Facebook was considering closing the Priape pages.

"Around late July they terminated the site without explanation," he says. "Once they shut down the Priape group we started a fan page. Within a week and a half we had 4,000 members. We were very closely following the Facebook terms of use.

"About a month into it, it was flushed without explanation."

"The content on the Page you created is prohibited," wrote Autumn of Facebook's customer operations. "We do not currently allow content referencing, facilitating or promoting adult toys, videos or other adult products. Unfortunately we cannot reinstate this Page and ask that you do not recreate this page in the future."

Please, we all know the people for Facebook are only doing it for our own good. Aren't they?