Good work, fellow Mumsnetters. This is exactly the type of material that should be plagiarised and make it into the national media (as opposed to the 'Bridezilla threads that are probably all made up anyway).
M&S's response to this, though, is particularly galling. If they are moderating responses, as they say in their statement, then they are approving this BS. And as PPs have noted, the only interpretation of this statement is that they're aware of what's going on with this particular customer 'base', and are actively encouraging fetishists at the expense of their female customers.
[Jaw-clang]. Sex shops (and there's nothing wrong with them) just went mainstream. Were this not such an insidious ideology, there'd be a humorous irony in the fact that it's staid old M&S who are instrumental in blurring the boundaries between two previously oppositional retail markets.
I shall never shop there again.