It occurred to me that GOOP, Gwyneth Paltrow’s wellness propaganda emporium, has expanded into the wild and woolly world of Sexual “wellness”, going beyond or vagina and in a more frank territory: sex toys that look like objects of art and are not at all similar to what they should be.
The GOOP vibrator, which is currently sold, costs $ 95 and looks like a stylized ice cream cone. According to the description of the site, it has two ends: the attractive spoon of ice cream at its tip is a “wonderful wand,” providing vibration for external stimulation, while the other end is the part that climbs into it, to use the clinical term. working it looks like a Hitachi magic wand, but it also looks like something it would sell Wing, which is the first red flag. The second flag, bigger and more vibrant, is that, Mrs. Goop herself, the vibrator is meant to be “intellectual”.
Paltrow said this in an interview with New York Times around the launch of this element. The reason it has now launched a vibrator is partly due to the pandemic and also because sex toys are always sold and since not everyone has or wants to spend $ 15,000 on a solid-gold dildo, the consumer-friendly price for this could prove in their favor. Since the article is sold out, I think he did it! Here is the old woman, with an explanation:
Why a vibrator now?
For a lot of people – not for you and not for me – a vibrator is still considered a fairly rational thing. That has obviously changed a lot in the last decade. But still, people are triggered by sexual content or triggered by their own sexuality. Women are not taught in a certain language and how to express what we want. We are not good at being vulnerable about our own sexuality.
I think unlike “Why a vibrator now?” is a kind of “How can we make a vibrator that will help reduce the stigma around those things?”
Talk about its design.
So many vibrators look hypersexualized. Either they are really phallic or they look like something you would buy in a sex shop. I was really intrigued by the idea that this would be something that looked really nice and cool and that you could leave it on your nightstand without embarrassing yourself or anyone else. There is something very masterful about this.
Explain?
I think we were just trying to do something … maybe something more intellectual.
Everything else in this interview is the same kind of pope you might expect a vibrator that looks like your mom might pick it up and ask you what it is like if you left it on the kitchen table as part of a painting. interior design. you were at work. Because the vibrator looks like a decor, rather than something you use before bed, that means masturbation is “destigmatizing.” It is also spilled by the sex shop associations that, say, the rabbit has, because its curved edges and brass accents scream “West Elm” instead of “emporium of legless panties on Central Ave in White Plains near Burger King ”. Sex toys that show things you would be “proud” to display on your dresser or Lucite coffee table or whatever I’m not new – only Paltrow is not a pioneer in the way he thinks he is.
Other companies like Lelo I’ve been producing vibrators and sex toys for a minute now that don’t look like bachelor party favors, so this point is neither here nor there. My biggest problem with the sex toy Goop is my problem with all the sex toys that look like gloomy blobs. A sex toy should It looks like it came from a sex shop, because that’s half the fun. The Rabbit vibrator is good because it’s good, but it’s also good because it looks like a purple alien with “pearls” in the shaft and it’s the kind of thing you can laugh at when you look at it and you’re good to hide it away in the underwear drawer intimate when you’re done. I want the things you use to make you look “cute” in case it’s on the table when someone comes, but why would you want them to look? so nice for someone to pick it up and touch it with their hands? I don’t care if anyone knows I’m masturbating, but I don’t want other people to touch my shit unless they do WRITING and I’ve already agreed on what is WRITING.
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A sex toy is inherently stupid! It is literally an instrument. There is nothing particularly intellectual about a toy that is attached to your own clitoris and suck it like a small lollipop. There’s nothing intellectual about Goop’s hit either. Does Proust read sex toys? Are you forced to give a lecture on Marxism while just trying to rub it and eat some sun chips? Let sex toys be what they should be and, for God’s sake, let go of the intellect for once!