Luxury lingerie brand unveils £130 vibrator named after Emmeline Pankhurst (and it's ALREADY sold out online)

  • Adult retailer Coco de Mer has released a vibrator named after a Suffragette
  • The Emmeline, named after Mrs Pankhurst, costs an eye-watering £130
  • Despite the hefty price tag, the toy has already sold out online

She was instrumental in winning British women the right to vote in 1918, and now a luxury lingerie firm has come up with an unlikely tribute to Emmeline Pankhurst.

Adult retailer Coco de Mer is selling a vibrator named after the political activist and leader of the Suffragette movement - for an eye-watering £130.

And despite the substantial price tag, the Emmeline is already sold out on the brand's website. 

The risque brand says the product will encourage users to 'explore your erotic imagination'.

Emmeline Pankhurst lead the Suffragette campaign demanding that the government give women the right to vote

Emmeline Pankhurst lead the Suffragette campaign demanding that the government give women the right to vote

The purple sex toy, which comes with its own leather carry case, is billed as encouraging users to 'explore your erotic imagination'. 

It's named after Mrs Pankhurst, the leader of the Suffragette movement who successfully helped to win the right to vote for women.

The website says: 'Liberate your lusts with Emmeline, a sleekly designed internal vibrator for incredible release.'

The high end sex toy has five different settings to ensure 'maximum satisfaction that you can customise to your slightest whim'.

Coco de Mer has honoured the Mrs Pankhurst's struggle by naming  a £130 vibrator after her
The controversial sex toy has proved to be very popular, and appears to be sold out on the brand's website

Coco de Mer has named its newest sex toy Emmeline, after the founder of the Suffragette movement 

The £130 toy is 'out of stock' on the brand's website, suggesting that it's already sold out.

The risque product is also making its big screen debut in the latest in the Fifty Shades installment, Fifty Shades Freed.

Anastasia Steele can be seen using the Emmeline in the film, which is out next month.

It has been a century since the first women in the UK were given the right to vote.

Women over 30 who had property were given the right to vote a hundred years ago this year in 1918, but women wouldn't be given equal voting rights to men until 1928

Women over 30 who had property were given the right to vote a hundred years ago this year in 1918, but women wouldn't be given equal voting rights to men until 1928

The Suffragettes were militant in their campaigning, which included smashing windows and even, in the case of Emily Wilding Davison, throwing themselves in front of a horse at the Epsom Derby.

Coco de Mer is known for its risque products and even more outrageous advertising.

Its 2017 Christmas advert featured scantily-clad women wearing lacy blindfolds, wielding whips and bound in leather handcuffs.

The minute-long clip, produced by acclaimed photographer Rankin and The Full Service, takes the festive classic 'the 12 days of Christmas' as inspiration but re-works the lyrics to feature vibrators, latex stockings and barely-there thongs. 

'Deeds not Words': The history of the suffrage movement

Other members of the WSPU hold newspapers and pamphlets as young boys stand next to them

Other members of the WSPU hold newspapers and pamphlets as young boys stand next to them

The women's suffrage movement began in the mid-1800s as organised campaigns began to take place across the UK after Mary Smith delivered the first women's suffrage petition to parliament.

In 1866, a women’s suffrage committee was formed in London, which soon sparked other groups being set up in other areas, such as the Manchester National Society for Women’s Suffrage. 

Millicent Garrett Fawcett lead the The National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies (NUWSS), which was set up in 1897.

They were known as 'suffragists', as they believed in enfranchising women by peaceful means such as protests and petitions. They stayed away from violence.

But Emmeline Pankhurst, who was then a member of the NUWSS, decided to employ more direct and militant tactics, leading her to set up the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU) in 1906 with her two daughters, Sylvia and Christabel.

The union's motto was 'Deeds not Words' and many of their actions were considered extreme by the population. They included large rallies and hunger strikes.

They were soon dubbed 'suffragettes' by the Daily Mail.

Another group, the Women’s Freedom League (WFL), was set up a year later by Charlotte Despard and Teresa Billington-Grieg, and were somewhere in between the other two groups in regards to their approach. 

But the onset of World War One changed the minds of many opposed to suffrage. Prime Minister Herbert Asquith declared his support of women's suffrage in 1916.

Women over 30 were finally granted the right to vote in 1918 and ten years later, the Representation of the People Act was amended to allow everyone over the age of 21 to vote.

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