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Bryony Cole
June 27, 2024

👋 HEY ALL!

Welcome to this week's edition of our newsletter! I've been having a busy time across USA and Europe since I last pressed publish, meeting up with founders and veritable sextech superstars 🤩

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For those who joined this list since my talk on AI Companionship, I've got a ton of AI relationship research on the boil now, and shared some of my fav new selects in this edition. *If there's anyone doing interesting work in the field, I'd love to hear from you.

And in the broader sextech space, there's a lot of industry events coming up in the next few months. Check the listings to see if there is one near you, or join online. Get involved!

By the way, it's not too late to join our Future of Sex industry hub before we officially launch this out into the world 👉 the earliest early-bird list here.

Read on for:

🔥 this week in sextech

💼 job openings

🎪 community events

💸 investment news

— Bryony

🔥 THIS WEEK IN SEXTECH

  • 🤖 Miss AI Beauty Pageant launches

  • 👀 10 European sextech startups to watch

  • 😲 AngryGF uses AI to help men ...be better

🤖 Miss AI Beauty Pageant launches

Dystopian nightmare or the future of beauty contests?

The world's first artificial intelligence beauty pageant has been launched by The Fanvue World AI Creator Awards (WAICAs), with two human judges and two AI judges.

Participants of the Fanvue Miss AI pageant will be judged on three categories:

  • Their appearance: “the classic aspects of pageantry including their beauty, poise, and their unique answers to a series of questions.”

  • The use of AI tools: “skill and implementation of AI tools used, including use of prompts and visual detailing around hands and eyes."

  • Their social media clout: “based on their engagement numbers with fans, rate of growth of audience and utilisation of other platforms such as Instagram”.

The co-founder, Will Monanage, has said he’s hoping it will become “the Oscars of the AI creator economy.”

'Miss AI': World's first beauty contest with computer generated women

Dystopian nigtmare or the future of beauty contests? You be the judge.

👀 10 European sextech startups to watch

If you thought sextech companies were all about the USA, here's 10 European based companies to add to your follow list

Let's talk about sex: 10 European startups revolutionising sexual health and pleasure | EU-Startups

Sexual well-being, once a topic confined to hushed conversations and taboos, has emerged as a crucial aspect of overall health. With the growing

😲 AngryGF uses AI to help men be better

Had an interesting meeting this morning where I learned about AngryGF, the app “designed to help users handle relationship conflicts with their partners, especially girlfriends or wives.

It simulates scenarios where female partners are angry, such as “you put your savings into the stock market and lose 50 percent of it”

What If Your AI Girlfriend Hated You?

AngryGF offers a perpetually enraged chatbot intended to teach men better communication skills. WIRED took it for a spin.

💼 HOT JOBS

🇺🇸 Influencer Marketing Coordinator, Bellesa [Apply]

🇬🇧 Content Lead, Mojo [£80k-£100k]

🇬🇧 Research Coordinator (SWERV Projects), National Ugly Mugs [£34,125 FTE at 0.5]

🇬🇧 Social Video Editor, Killing Kittens [Apply]

🇩🇪 Merchandising Assistant, Lovehoney Group [Apply]

🇱🇹 Creative Producer, Flo Health Inc. [€3.200-€3.500 monthly]

🇮🇳 Supply Chain Management (SCM) Internship in Noida, Kama Ayurveda Pvt. Ltd. [Apply]

🇳🇱 Community and Program Manager, Equals [Apply]

🇫🇷 General Director - Assistant, Femtech France [Apply]

🎪 EVENTS

💻 June 27, 10am EST, Online, FREE Sextech School Info Session [RSVP]

💻 June 27, 6pm CET, Online, A Guide to Pitching Sex Topics to Journalists & Media, Sx Tech [RSVP]

🇦🇺 June 28, Astor Theatre, Melbourne Erotic Cinema Club, by High Tide [see this post and more showing details HERE]

🇩🇪 July 22-25, Berlin, Germany at the Leonardo Royal Hotel Berlin Alexanderplatz, IASR’s 50th Annual Meeting, IASR [RSVP]

🇨🇦 August 24, University of Quebec in Montreal, LSR 9th Academic Congress [Tickets]

🇦🇺 October 14-20, SXSW Sydney, Love, Sex and Intimacy in the age of AI - talk [Tickets] (yep, I'm speaking at this! 🎉)

🇫🇷 Oct 18-19, Normandy, France, Sextech for Good Conference [Tickets]

📚 RESEARCH

📈 Satisfaction is on the rise in Durex's Global Sex Survey

We are better off than we were almost 20 years ago, according to the latest report from Durex. Read more insights here.

DUREX GLOBAL SEX SURVEY

The percentage of Britons using a condom for their first sexual experience has risen by 22% since 2006, to 50% in 2024, according to Durex's latest Global Sex Survey. This was even higher amongst those aged 35–49 and 18–24, with 58% and 57%, respectively, stating that they'd used a condom during their first time.

💸 INVESTMENTS

💸 Luwi seeking investment

LUWI (let us wear it) is an over the counter contraceptive for women, designed as an alternative to a condom. Sextech School Alum and Founder Lisa Kinsella has already raised $680k and is gearing up to offer the community an investment opportunity via crowd-funding.

You can do so here (this early bird link gets you 5% bonus shares before it officially goes live)

🏆 Awkward Essentials has been acquired

Read more from Founder Frances Tang on LinkedIn this week 👇

Frances Tang on LinkedIn: Awkward Essentials has found a new Daddy (aka been acquired)! 🎉 

We made an invention that came from my brain, a THING. Dripstick, our hero product, didn’t…

That’s a wrap for this week.

— Bryony