• 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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      British singer songwriter known for autobiographical story-telling songs in plain English, casual speech in a London accent (as opposed to flowery, metaphorical lyrics in a neutral accent).

      She was married to David Harbour of Stranger Things fame and her latest album is about their divorce due to him being a sex addict and pushing unethical non-monogamy on her.

      The story is relevant because one of the notable moments from the album is the description of a Duane Reed bag full of buttplugs she discovers when finding his secret sex apartment in New York (song: “Pussy Palace”)

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        Why couldn’t they all be his? He might need a fancy one, a casual one, different gauges, one that shoots fire, etc etc

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          Well you should listen to the album - it explains how she was pressured by both Harbour and his other partners into it, and the amount of evidence of other partners in the Pussy Palace.

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      Why is this an acceptable comment in 2026, especially on lemmy? We don’t need this virtue signaling “I’m too fucking stupid to Google something” shit clogging the comments section up. Shout out to the kind souls that actually took the time to educate you though.

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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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        It doesn’t have to be seen as bad for it to be undesirable. I’m straight, but I have plenty of gay friends and hold no ill-will towards any sexuality. I’m not trying to become gay though, so it isn’t desired or, to use another word, it’s undesirable.

        I also don’t really have any interest in buying a butt plug, at least for myself. Equating it as being gay makes it sound like it’s something I shouldn’t want, which there’s no reason for that to be true. Even though I don’t want it, there’s no reason I shouldn’t want it.

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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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    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

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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.

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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