The U.S. Department of Defense has asked a Canadian adult retailer to stop sending sex toys to American service members stationed in the Middle East, a story first reported and followed closely by Queerty.com. The unusual request involved packages sent to a U.S. naval base in Bahrain, where such items are illegal under local law. Bonjibon co-founder Grace Bennett says she received two stern letters from the Department of Defense over items shipped to a naval base in Bahrain, where such toys are illegal. Bennett read aloud a line from the letter describing the items as “posing an immediate danger to life or limb or an immediate and substantial danger to property,” a moment that quickly went viral.
She later whispered that the products included a butt plug and a bullet vibrator, a reveal that fueled laughter across queer social media. An Instagram reel showing Bennett framing the Pentagon letters earned more than 140,000 likes. One commenter joked, “Hate mail from this administration would go on a wall higher than my graduate degrees.” Speaking with CTV News Toronto, Bennett said, “We didn’t even know it (the product) was going to Bahrain until it came back to us months later…there’s many layers of hilarity to this.” She believes the package was forwarded there, since Bonjibon does not ship directly to Bahrain. The Pentagon declined to comment, and Bennett refunded the order after it was returned.
