AI Wingmen, Scrollmates & Orgasmic Sound

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Bryony Cole
June 27, 2025

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👋HEY ALL!

This week I let an AI tell me what my future husband looks like... and according to whatdoesmyhusbandlooklike.com, he’s either a clean-cut finance bro in a black tee or the guy I fall asleep next to in matching Adidas tracksuits on a long-haul flight 😂

If you see either of them, let them know I'm looking for them...

Dating, it seems, is only getting weirder, and this week is your confirmation with a ton of articles exploring what's going on.

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  • 🔥 this week in sextech

  • 💼 job openings

  • 🎪 events

  • 🎧 special offer

  • 💰 investments

  • 📚 latest research and activism

— Bryony

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🔥 THIS WEEK IN SEXTECH

  • 📉 Bumble’s Meltdown

  • 🌈 Political Climate's Impact on LGBTQ+ Dating

  • 📱Your Feed, Your Face, Your Future Husband...

  • 🤖 Would you spend $80/month on AI dating 'wingmen'

📱Your Feed, Your Face, Your Future Husband...

Tina Tarighian is building a dating universe where your digital shadows do the flirting for you. With Rithm, forget the bios and dead-end prompts, just upload your Instagram Explore page and let your scroll habits translate into a “digital pheromone” to help you find your perfect scrollmate. It’s messy, weirdly intimate, and more honest than pretending you love hiking 😂

But Tarighian doesn’t stop there. With whatdoesmyhusbandlooklike.com, what does AI think your husband looks like based on your face alone? Go on, give it a go.

🤖 Would you spend $80/month on AI dating 'wingmen'

Have you ever thought, that pick-up line sounds suspciously like ChatGPT wrote it?Users are now spending up to $80 a month to have specifically created AI ‘wingman’ apps craft pick-up lines, messages and even break-up texts.

Dating ‘apocalypse’ is here due to AI

You match with someone on a dating app. Likes are liked, tame but sweet sallies shared, favourite TV shows compared. But singletons in 2025 now face a horrible question: Are they actually talking to an eligible charmer who has gone to the bother of two fingers tapping out a response – or are they one of the increasing number of people turning to ChatGPT to do

📉 Bumble’s Meltdown

Bumble is undergoing major restructuring, cutting nearly a third of its workforce and shifting strategy under returning CEO Whitney Wolfe Herd as it grapples with slowing growth, investor skepticism.

Additonally this week they face legal trouble over its AI "Icebreakers" feature, which allegedly violates EU data laws by sharing personal user data with OpenAI without proper consent, filed by noyb.eu.

Bumble cut 30% of its workforce—the magnitude of which JPMorgan says 'comes as a surprise'

The dating app company announced Wednesday it would lay off 30% of its workforce.

🚨 Today, we have filed a complaint against the dating app Bumble! | noyb.eu

🚨 Today, we have filed a complaint against the dating app Bumble!

🌈 Political Climate's Impact on LGBTQ+ Dating

A recent survey by the Kinsey Institute and DatingNews reveals that 1 in 4 LGBTQ+ singles are altering their dating behaviors due to the current political environment.

Notably, 44% of LGBTQ+ adults aged 18 to 24 report feeling unsafe being open about their identity while dating, and 21% have relocated to more LGBTQ-friendly areas.

1 in 4 LGBTQ+ Singles Say the Political Climate Is Reshaping Their Dating Lives

According to The State of Us: National Study on Modern Love & Dating in 2025 survey conducted by  Kinsey Institute and DatingNews.com, 1 in 4 LGBTQ+ singles say they are choosing to rethink how and where they date.

💼 HOT JOBS

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🎪 EVENTS

  • 🌐 July 1-8, Online, Seduction As A Spiritual Practice, with Caitlin Erica [RSVP]

  • 🇦🇺 July 9, Melbourne Up Late: Pursuits of Pleasure with Alyx Gorman & Georgia Grace [RSVP]

  • 🌐 July 19-12, Online, Rethinking Sex Addiction: Treatment and Techniques for OCSB, Sexual Health Alliance [RSVP]

  • 🇬🇧 July 10, London, The Second Coming: Summer Soiree & 2nd Inspiration Showcase [RSVP]

  • 🇦🇺 July 13, Australia, Smut Slam - A world of Sexy Storytelling [RSVP]

  • 🇨🇦 August 15-17, Montreal, LSR Academic Congress [RSVP]

  • 🇺🇸 October 9-12, Colorado, 2025 Annual Sexological Conference - 10 YEAR ANNIVERSARY, Sexual Health Alliance [RSVP]

🎧 FEEL THE MUSIC (LITERALLY): Sextech School Alum Shakes Up Kickstarter

First things first… What song would you feel in your body if music wasn’t just heard—but internal?

That’s the magic behind Groove Thing, the world’s first internal music player—and it’s already making waves (literally and metaphorically). With deep bass you can hear and feel, it lets your body become the sound system. Think: stereo speaker meets high-fidelity vibrator meets genius tech.

And yes, we’re screaming because co-founder Elizabeth Dell is a proud Sextech School alum (Cohort 4!) 💚💥 Watching her absolutely annihilate Kickstarter (2893% of their goal in 2 days!) is a proud Mum moment.

💥 TryGrooveThing.com/stschool unlocks a secret $275 price just for us. (And if you buy it, tell me what your first song choice is 😏)

💰 INVESTMENTS

💉 Visby Medical Raises $55M to Launch At-Home Lab-Quality STI Test

Visby Medical’s FDA-cleared PCR platform delivers rapid, accurate STI results in under 30 minutes, empowering consumers to test discreetly from home and accelerating its U.S. market rollout with new funding led by Catalio Capital Management.

Visby Medical Raises $55M for At-Home STI Testing Platform | Femtech Insider

Visby Medical has raised approximately $55 million with potential to reach $65 million in a funding round led by Catalio Capital Management to accelerate launch of its FDA-authorized at-home Women's Sexual Health Test. The San Jose-based company develps single-use PCR diagnostics that deliver laboratory-accurate results within 30 minutes. Catalio Capital Management led the round with

📚 RESEARCH & ACTIVISM

✍️ New research: Criminalised communities, anti-surveillance, and hacking sextech

A paper authored by Dr Zahra Stardust, Kath Albury and Jenny Kennedy latest paper on the sextech hackathon examines the tensions between profit-driven sextech entrepreneurship and the urgent needs for data privacy, sexual justice, and community care.

Can we reshape sextech as a tool for liberation rather than mere commercialization? Read 👇

Visby Medical Raises $55M for At-Home STI Testing Platform | Femtech Insider

Visby Medical has raised approximately $55 million with potential to reach $65 million in a funding round led by Catalio Capital Management to accelerate launch of its FDA-authorized at-home Women's Sexual Health Test. The San Jose-based company develps single-use PCR diagnostics that deliver laboratory-accurate results within 30 minutes. Catalio Capital Management led the round with

🚫 Fighting Digital Censorship of Women’s Health Content

Unbound and The Case for Her partner with CensHERship to expose how social media platforms suppress vital, medically accurate information on women’s health, calling for urgent action to end harmful censorship that blocks access and stalls innovation.

Sign this open letter and show your support: https://lnkd.in/epBB9G-D

Open Letter: it’s time to stop censoring women’s health

CensHERship and The Case for Her have partnered to highlight the problem of digital suppression and censorship across social media and other Very Large Online Platforms (VLOPs).

📎 BONUS READ

🤖 Reliabl’s Monthly Research Roundup: AI, Bias, and Ethical Challenges

Each month, Reliabl 's team curates key insights on AI infrastructure, data safety, and ethics, highlighting urgent issues like gender bias in healthcare AI, the limits of ethics audits, and the evolving landscape of data annotation amid industry shifts.

Read Annie Brown 's post here:

Each month, I round up what the Reliabl team has been sharing in our #research Slack channel — articles, papers, and threads that shape how we think about data, safety, and AI infrastructure. | Annie Brown

Each month, I round up what the Reliabl team has been sharing in our #research Slack channel — articles, papers, and threads that shape how we think about data, safety, and AI infrastructure.

Until next time, may your scrollmates be hot, your AI husbands oddly accurate, and your inbox smarter than your dating app.

— Bryony

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