While looking online for toys for my three year old, I stumbled on a list of the Top 25 most baffling toys. Needless to say, very few of these seem to be appropriate for children (although most appear to be marketed to that demographic).
Take the doll pictured above (made in Russia). What child needs to have their nascent perceptions of sexuality be confused even more by a hermaphroditic doll? Maybe some marketing genius thought "hey, if we make a doll that has parts from both sexes, we can cut our production costs in half!".
See the whole list at Cracked.com
Seems that they're onto the toy market nowadays...
Our local play group and our nursery all had dolls with all the bits - the kids just took it in their stride. It's not as if it's any great surprise to a child!
So we have a hermaphroditic doll, that pees, on a BBQ, next to a power lead. Never thought I'd say all them in same sentence!! lol