We’ve come across some strange sex toys in our time (the vajankle, anyone?) but this one definitely takes the dubious honour of being the most disturbing.
A new product has been released that offers users the opportunity to place the ashes of loved ones within a dildo.
21 Grams was created by Mark Sturkenboom and is a memory box that includes a necklace, an amplifier for playing music that reminds you of your loved ones, a scent diffuser and a gold-plated urn.
So far, so normal (ish).
However, the box has one more added feature… a dildo that you can fill with your loved one’s ashes.
Sturkenboom said that he was inspired to create the product due the fact that “the missing of intimacy with that person is only one aspect of the pain and grief” caused by bereavement.
“The urn offers the possibility to conserve 21 grams of ashes of the deceased and displays an immortal desire. I sometimes help an elderly lady with her groceries and she has an urn standing near the window with the remains of her husband. She always speaks with so much love about him but the jar he was in didn’t reflect that at all,” he said.
“In that same period, I read an article about widows, taboos and sex and intimacy and then I thought to myself “can I combine these themes and make an object that is about love and missing and intimacy?”
