Huntington Beach, CA – The Master Series Obedience Extreme Sex Bench from XR Brands was featured in headlines worldwide last week after celebrities Cara Delevingne and Ashley Benson were spotted by paparazzi carrying one into their home.

Press material is referring to this as a stunt. Apparently, Delevingne and Benson weren’t actually into the bench as it was some sort of stunt?

To wit:

In the days following the publicity stunt, Hustler Hollywood brought the Obedience Extreme Sex Bench into all 30 of its retail locations and demand for the versatile and adjustable sex furniture is keeping XR Brands sales staff on their toes.”

Documented in several paparazzi photos, the young supermodel and her actress girlfriend giggled as they carried the Obedience Extreme Sex Bench into their home. The stunt clearly was a success, as the story has been picked up by media outlets around the world, from the UK’s Daily Mail to almost every gossip site in existence. Even the OC Weekly highlighted the couple’s housewarming gift, remarking that its manufacturer, XR Brands, is a local Orange County business.

“This has been one of the biggest responses we’ve had to sightings of celebrities holding or buying our products and we are delighted by the influx of interest and orders!” XR Brands President Rebecca Weinberg said.

“It’s an honor to have Hustler Hollywood bring the Obedience Extreme Sex Bench into their 30 brick-and-mortar locations and so many other customers seeing the potential for having this kind of versatile sex furniture in stock – especially knowing that shoppers are starting to ask for it by name,” Weinberg added.

But, if this was a stunt, then do Delevingne and Benson actually like and want to use the bench? And if it’s not something they actually want, then isn’t this just another instance of the mainstream trivializing sexual expression that’s off the beaten path and/or exploiting the adult industry and its products for clicks?

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