Will the lazy journalists ever learn? London morning freesheet Metro is the latest newspaper to perpetuate the Rampant Rabbit Myth, making a hash of its report on the theft of £2,000 sex toys from a van beloning to sex shop chain Nice & Naughty. It makes you wonder that if they can’t get the basics in a short story like this right, what else they’re getting wrong…
As we all know by now, “Rampant Rabbit” is not a generic term for “rabbit vibrator“, it is a specific product made by Ann Summers. But that doesn’t stop Metro blundering:
“A sex shop boss offered a £500 cash reward today for the safe return of 36 Rampant Rabbit vibrators and 12 blow-up dolls.”
Is the “sex shop boss” Jacqueline Gold of Ann Summers? No, it’s Simon Prescott of Nice & Naughty, a rival chain. Would Simon be selling his rival’s vibrators? No, of course not. 36 rabbit vibrators had been stolen – not 36 “Rampant Rabbit vibrators”.
Metro goes on to compound its error by trotting out the hoary old mistruth:
“The Rampant Rabbit vibrator was made famous when it appeared in hit US comedy Sex in the City.”
No it wasn’t. NO NO NO NO. No. This is the Sex And The City Rabbit Vibrator, not the Rampant Rabbit.
Yes, I should get out more.
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