A lot of escapist entertainment is aspirational in nature. Oprah‘s Favorite Things list always includes some $600 pillow sham or $150 candle, magazines like Vogue and Marie Claire routinely showcase items whose price is “upon request” (Translation: If you have to ask, you can’t afford it), and there are entire channels devoted to shows about people buying houses most Americans will never be able to own. So, upon first glance, Gwyneth Paltrow including a $15,000 dildo on her list of “Not So Basic Sex Toys” in Goop’s Sex Issue isn’t all that unusual.