A
sex toy company trying to get a rise out of New Yorkers erected a head-turning
promotional ploy on Fifth Ave.
Hot
Octopuss unveiled what it called a “GuyFi” booth on 28th St. and 5th Ave. where
men could, in theory, go to “relieve stress” mid-workday.
The
masturbation-themed marketing scheme was inspired by a Time Out survey, which
concluded that 39% of the New York men questioned admitted to masturbating
while at work.
The
booth was created to “take this habit out of the office and into a more
suitable environment designed to give the busy Manhattan man the privacy, and
the high-speed Internet connection, he deserves,” Octopuss said in a press
release.
The
booth was actually an out-of-service telephone kiosk outfitted with a black
curtain, a folding chair, a laptop computer, and a Hot Octopuss ad along the
side.
“At
Hot Octopuss we are all about looking for new solutions to improve everyday
life and we feel we've done just that with the new GuyFi booth,” Adam Lewis,
Hot Octopuss co-founder, said in a statement. “We hope the city’s men enjoy
using the space we’ve created in whatever way they want.”
A
representative later reveled that, “the brand is not actively
encouraging people to masturbate in public as that is an illegal offense.”
People
tweeted about the booth, lol.
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