C'mon. This is an advertisement, isn't it?

Very subtle, but very clever. I bet Roddick's PR people are behind it, laughing their knickers off.

Except they probably don't wear them.

But thanks anyway, for quite the funniest OLO article in a long while.

OLO has sunk to an unexpected low with this story.

Suttle? yes, about as suttle as a BD anti Islam post of yesteryear or.. a log splitter.

The 'comforting' thing about all this, is that life is finite. The morons purveying this rubbish will one day be wrinkly and old.. cast off to the scrap heap..or.. they will just get some horrible disease in their 'liberated' youth..and suddenly the house of cards will come crashing down.

This kind of thing is like the Tower of Babel... same mentality.

We all know what happened there..and it didn't end well for the Babylonians.

By the sound of the products and services there is an opportunity here to cross market. It seems that every pet emporium around has a product range that would cater to the sexually adventurous. We could brand the chain "Precocious Pet and People Warehouse", Our slogan could be "everything for the boudoir bitch, at doggy prices”.

Pericles is right - it's got to be a marketing thing, and a very funny one too. It's just too caricatured to be serious.

However, I note that it was simultaneously posted on the wowserish Melinda Tankard Reist's blog today. Have they been had, or do they really believe this hysterical prudery?

The shops themselves sound like 'Sex and the City' meets 'The Body Shop'. Certainly questionable in terms of taste and dodgy marketing, but I can't see why consenting (and apparently wealthy) adults can't indulge their sexual tastes if they want to. Nobody's forced to go into these shops if they disapprove of what they sell.

I'm a supporter of feminism, but not of the shrill wowserism expressed in this article.

Great comment, Pericles.

Sounds to me that the very canny Roddick is parting overly cashed-up from their dollars. Healthy capitalism. Anyone stupid enough to pay £239 for a human hair whip... well, I am clearly lost for words.

R0ddick - you go girl.

Abigail Bray, trying to link this piece of high-end (no pun intended) marketing with child sexual abuse is very tawdry. About as tawdry as many of Roddick's customers.

However, I am now enlightened to consider the carbon footprint of sex-toys, thank you.

CJ

Its hard to call yourself a supporter of a movement that you don't seem to understand. The point of the article was that selling over-priced sex-toys to rich people does little to make this world a bwtter place for women. This business makes money by dressing up consumerism and conforming to current fashions as feminism.