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.

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.

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

It’s the perfect gift. Because if you don’t like it, you can fuck yourself!

I believe she also wrote a song “You can’t get pregnant if you do it in the bum bum” so this is no surprise.

When Allen released the physical copies of West End Girl earlier this January, she also encoded the album on a limited-edition USB embedded in a polka dot-adorned butt plug (it’s “intended for data storage only”).

You gotta admire the dedication to the kink here, its a bit cheeky too 😉 lol

Lily All-In

Honestly surprised she didn’t do this sooner.

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.

Dear Lily, why are you being this silly?

That’s an awkward shape for one.