• Okay. Are they any good? Any reason to buy these instead of amazonian generics? What do they look like? I don’t give two shits about the celebrity name I’ve never heard of before, you wanna advertise at me, tell me about the product.

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    I mean that’s cool and all, but not as avant garde as it could be. Why not also release a fleshlight modeled on Lily Allen’s very own clampy mud bucket? Hell, I’d buy that. Y’know, the old turd purse. -You can have that one, btw, on the house- Now that’s courage.

    They could sell them individually but everyone knows you have to buy them both to complete the set. Should come with lube that smells like Christmas cookies with just a hint of really boozy vomit.

    For travel convenience you can just stuff one into the other and toss the whole kit and kaboodle in the glove box or fanny pack.

    You could give one half to your special sweetheart and keep the other. Like heart bracelets.

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    The only time I’ve been irked enough to make an account to comment directly on the article.

    Save you a click: Starting the article with, “Looking for a kinky Christmas gift for your terminally online gay friend this year?” And then quoting Allen with,
    “For me, toys can help you to better understand your body and learn what you like,” feels tone deaf and pretty disrespectful. You don’t have to be gay to like anal play, and to start the article with that statement is more likely to make those that are not gay, or maybe even questioning their sexuality feel shame. You could have simply left out “gay” from your sentence altogether and it would have been fine and still a reasonable statement to make, but by having “gay” as part of that sentence implies that if you’re not gay, sexual exploration is not for you- or even that if you do like anal play you must be gay. Please consider your word choices more carefully in the future.

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      I really don’t see a problem unless you equate being gay with being bad or undesirable in some way. Who’s reading an article about butt plugs and only feels shame in their interest when gay people are brought up?

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      Why are you surprised. According to lemmy, if you wash your asshole in the shower then you’re gay.

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        No you’re thinking of “alpha bros” on tik tok or Twitter. They legit believe wiping your ass after you shit is gay since you are technically touching a man’s ass. No they won’t use a bidet either.

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        I think you’re mistaking 4chan or some right-wing only social media site for Lemmy.
        It makes no sense how you could have that experience here, a place that’s filled with lgbtq+ people.

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          Eh, in some someone at some point has said that.

          So what, there are dumb folks everywhere

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        Damn! Not again! I did that this morning. Now I must come clean and do jazz hands at opportune moments.

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    I take it that this Lily Allen person does designer goods.

    searches

    Apparently so:

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lily_Allen

    Karl Lagerfeld, the head designer for Chanel, personally hired and photographed Allen for a campaign to promote a luxury line of handbags due to launch in September 2009.[154][155] Allen and her sister opened their own clothing store, titled “Lucy in Disguise”, on 15 September 2010.

    I don’t really think that butt plugs are a very good choice as a designer product, in most cases.

    Designer clothing is probably going to generally be a Veblen good.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veblen_good

    A Veblen good is a type of luxury good for which the demand increases as the price increases, in apparent contradiction of the law of demand, resulting in an upward-sloping demand curve. They are named after American economist Thorstein Veblen who described the contradiction.

    The higher prices of Veblen goods may make them desirable as a status symbol in the practices of conspicuous consumption and conspicuous leisure. A product may be a Veblen good because it is a positional good, something few others can own.

    The problem with sex toys as Veblen goods is that Veblen goods benefit from being high-visibility, and sex toys generally can’t be high visibility. Like, you probably can’t generally be walking around making it clear to as many people as possible that you have a particularly expensive object up your butt.

    I’d think that for this sort of thing to be successful, you’d either have to be, oh, having the thing visible at some sort of event where sex toys are on display and you’re aiming to score status points with the people there, or you’d have to alter social norms to the point that having butt plugs generally on display is a thing.

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      sex toys generally can’t be high visibility

      I was thinking those fox tails were for furry purposes but maybe it’s an economic function.

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    Midway through the album on the song “Pussy Palace,” she enters Harbour’s apartment to find a “Duane Reade bag with the handles tied / Sex toys, butt plugs, lube inside.”

    Okay

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    Looking for a kinky Christmas gift for your terminally online gay friend this year?

    How is a buttplug kinky for a gay dude? Isn’t butt stuff quite normal for gay dudes? And how is it kinky at all? Even for hetero people I wouldn’t call that kinky.