JAMES CITY, Va. - A woman who bought what she thought was a discounted cartoon DVD for her children was outraged to discover it contained gay porn instead.
The anonymous woman told the Virginia Gazette there was nothing about the packaging to indicate the DVD contained adult material.
"It was sealed in the package, just like any DVD," she told the Gazette. "I opened it, put it in the player and went into the kitchen. I heard my son scream, and when I went to check on him, instead of Batman the screen had three men on it, one of whom had no pants on."
Before she ejected the DVD, the woman said she noticed a reference to "Titan Man" on the screen. She also said once she took a closer look at the DVD, which she obtained from a Target store in Williamsburg, she noticed it seemed to have been burned on a home computer instead of at a professional replication house.
"It's not unusual for a discount disc to have very little text on it," she told the Gazette. "I didn't really look at it when I put it in [the player]."
When her husband returned the disc to the store, a manager told him two similar incidents had occurred since Christmas, the woman reported.
According to the website Consumerist.com, Wal-Mart and Target have suffered porn-switch indignities in the past. And they're not the only ones who are upset by whatever caused them.
So is Titan Media, the producers of the Titan Men line of gay adult videos.
"We are appalled and outraged that a DVD with our content would end up in the hands of children," Titan Media vice president Keith Webb told GAYVN.com. "We are convinced that the disc in question did not come from a legitimate Titan Media vendor or replicator. We believe the disc in question may have come from a pirated source.
"The original article states the DVD in question did not have a printed faceplate and appeared to have been burned, all of which point to a pirated source of manufacture. We only manufacture our DVDs in two tightly controlled USA factories, neither of which produce cartoon DVDs sold at Target.
"Our attorney is contacting Target's counsel to try and obtain a copy of the disc in question in an effort to track down who made it," Webb said. "We are 100% committed to ensuring our content only ends up in the hands of adults specifically wishing to view our content. If, as we suspect, the DVD was from an unauthorized source, we will vigorously pursue a copyright infringement investigation."
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