Actually my little guy is a sheelanagig, which is a pre-Christian female fertility charm. Google sheelanagig for more, but briefly, they've found a few hundred of them, principally in Ireland but also in England, and they're generally grotesque, leering old women, holding their...bento boxes open. So that's not a dude's pepper or anything.
Wow, I am totally educated.
Also, "bento box," while not exactly classy, is
still a better euphemism than "toilet taco."
Anyway, my guess on acceptability here would be that AD's squirrel, for lack of a better term, was GODDAMN HUGE and animated, thus making it impossible to gloss over or avoid in a casual forum-reading session. The little sheelanagig is of average avatar size, which is to say "small and relatively gloss-over-able," and not nearly as explicit. Or animated. Or explicitly animated.