The famously bizarre GOOP gift guide is out. Featured alongside luxury trips to space and a $250 brass fire extinguisher is a $1,350 “Restraining Arts Kit.”
Because of course, Goop's holiday list has a $1,350 BDSM starter kit on it https://t.co/ETJkWdN5Iy pic.twitter.com/Wsf6Sx2HMv
— Dlisted (@itsdlisted) November 18, 2019
Featuring leather wrist and ankle cuffs, matching straps to tie the wearer down, and a leather-covered spanking paddle, the Restraining Arts Kit is a very basic, although admittedly high quality, starter BDSM kit. For context, a similar set that also includes a gag and a blindfold sells for around $78 (£60) from British retailer Anne Summers.
Gwyneth Paltrow's Goop offering BDSM starter kit for &1,350. Better deal at Home Depot for duck tape and zip ties.
— Susan Alexander (@susankalexander) November 18, 2019
https://twitter.com/sardavie/status/1196526875704729600
Seriously @Goop & @GwynethPaltrow – $1,300 for a beginners #BDSM Kit? You can get the same thing from @Stockroom_com for a 10th of the price and the quality will be equal to or better. #RipOff https://t.co/LFhpTwEFpu
— Coleen Singer (@ColeenSinger) November 18, 2019
People are astonished and vaguely horrified by what the new age one percent will spend their money on.
QUOTE OF THE DAY
"Restraining Arts Kit" – The BDSM kit listed on Goop's Holiday Gift Guides. For when you're feeling frisky, but also in the mood to spend all your rent money.— Harry O' Neal (@harryo1037) November 18, 2019
THIS KILLED ME. Restraining Arts Kit.
— Anxiety Avocado (@KatAtomic2) November 16, 2019
Leave it to a privileged, rich celebrity to sale a $1,350 BDSM kit on their website. That the average person couldn’t afford anyway.
Could #GwynethPaltrow be any more annoying?
— womanofgrace (@WomanofGrace72) November 18, 2019
I think these two items really sum up the goop brand – a $100 manila folder and BDSM restraint tape pic.twitter.com/uMwQsy2fNC
— Lee Jameson (@Lee_Jameson) August 3, 2018
There were some unkind suggestions, with Twitter user Jason Hillman referencing Paltrow and Chris Martin’s much-mocked “conscious uncoupling“.
#Goop is now offering BDSM kits.
It consists of two restraints and a recording of #GwynethPaltrow explaining her divorce.
— Jason Hillman (@ohthehillmanity) November 18, 2019
Ha!…"try conscientiously uncoupling" from THAT, bad boy!…😏
— David P Hughes (@dayvehuse) November 18, 2019
https://twitter.com/KristenKP43/status/1196406290047815682
However, given that the kit is apparently selling out already, it’s probably Gwyneth who is left laughing.
https://twitter.com/banikarim/status/1196501755829374977?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1196501755829374977&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.dailydot.com%2Fwp-admin%2Fpost-new.php
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