UPDATE: Pro-LGBT creator of Vatican ‘Luce’ mascot also behind demon adult sex toy designs
(
LifeSiteNews) — Tokidoki, the Japanese-inspired brand
responsible for the Vatican’s “Luce and Friends” mascots, is also responsible for a large range of sex toys in collaboration with Lovehoney, a large British producer of such items.
The toys were designed with a similar, distinctive tokidoki kitsch aesthetic to “
Luce and Friends.”
NB: In the interests of Christian modesty, we will not be linking to any sites or including any pictures. The product descriptions and reviews available online are exceedingly graphic, and we have attempted to keep this article as clean as possible. Nonetheless, some may still find a proximate occasion of sin, and should close this page if this seems likely.
In October 2016, Lovehoney launched its tokidoki product range. AVN Media Network wrote the following, naming
Simone Legno (the creator of “Luce and Friends”):
One of these products depicted a smiling red devil character holding a what is probably a trident, with a similar aesthetic to the “Luce and friends” mascots.
Lovehoney no longer stocks these products, although they are still for sale elsewhere. The Wayback Machine shows the official Lovehoney product description for one of the sex toys designed by the “Luce and Friends” creators, but it is too explicit to reproduce here.
In 2017, a Canadian lifestyle blog “theNotice” reviewed a number of the tokidoki/Lovehoney products, praising them for being “cute.”
Also in 2017,
Glamour magazine also published reviews to one of the same products, while praising it as “pretty.”
Another site wrote as follows:
The language and descriptions used in the product descriptions and the reviewers of tokidoki’s sex toys is strikingly similar to that employed by defenders and enthusiasts of tokidoki’s “Luce and Friends” Jubilee year mascots.
It seems possible that anyone who purchases “Luce and Friends” products from tokidoki’s site may also find themselves receiving marketing emails for other future tokidoki products—including, perhaps, items such as those discussed here.
Creator Simone Legno himself was raised a Catholic:
Despite this, tokidoki has also endorsed “LGBT Pride” and sold various products related to “Pride.”
Regarding “Luce and Friends,” Legno called the Jubilee a “unique opportunity” for the Church to engage with the youth:
It is not clear how or why the Vatican selected Legno as the designer of these Jubilee Year mascots.
Tokidoki, the Italian brand which created the controversial ‘Luce and Friends’ mascots for the 2025 Jubilee Year, has collaborated on a range of ‘adult toys’ – the designs of which have been described and reviewed in strikingly similar terms to the Vatican mascot.
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