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Breaking Taboos: Chinese Malls vs Stigma, Male SexTech 2025, & Australiaโs Menopause Move
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๐HEY ALL!
You know what I've been thinking...is 2025 the year male sextech moves out of taboo territory and into a premium experience?
It certainly is beginning to feel like it. In recent months, there's been a push in this category from utilitarian products to sophisticated wellness experiences.
This shift has been reflected in the broader global wellness category.
Think: the explosion of private club memberships now integrating ice baths and saunas... the move from 'vaguely feminine' zen style health spaces now trending toward plenty of wood, leather and darker (dare I say... masculine...) wellness surrounds.
Back to male sextech. For so long, I have often see only two options (and styles); clinical (take a pill!) or creepy (you don't want to keep that Fleshlight on your bedside table do you?).
At the forefront of this transformation is Manwan, a French brand revolutionizing the market through innovative design and scientific understanding of male pleasure.
Firstly, their products can be used with or without an erection. This is a pretty groundbreaking innovation in and of itself, but as part of a social conversation about male pleasure feels important for reducing stigma and challenging old school ideas about what you need to feel good.
Traditional approaches to male pleasure products have often prioritized what I'd call basic functionality over user experience. Manwan challenges this convention by focusing on overlooked erogenous zones, particularly the frenulum area - a highly sensitive region comparable to the female clitoris.
Their heavy research-backed approach has resulted in products that are designed to work for all body types (inclusive - yay!), combining deep anatomical expertise with the cherry-on-top... premium aesthetics.
Check them out here
๐ถ๏ธ Click here to check out Manwan -20% off for Valentine's Day ๐ถ๏ธ
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๐ธ investments
๐ก founder of the week
โ Bryony
๐ฅ THIS WEEK IN SEXTECH
๐ Sex toy stores in Chinese malls challenge taboos
๐ฅ The cult of Tenga and male sexual wellness
๐ธ Australians Long-Awaited Support for Menopausal Women
๐ Sex Toy Stores in China Redefine Desire & Pleasure
While there's no data on the number of sex toy shops in China, the country's adult product market has grown significantly in recent years, and there are a growing number of stores selling toys in shopping malls.
According to Statista, China's adult product market was valued at about 179 billion yuan ($39 billion) in 2023 โ up 6.5 per cent compared to the previous year.
๐ฅ Tenga, the futuristic and decidedly low-tech brand...and their disposable โeggsโ
Tenga's disposable eggsโwhich are slightly larger than a chicken egg and, to put it bluntly, similar to a disposable version of a Fleshlight in functionโhave been around since 2008. They have a cult following, Tenga sold more than 2.7 million of them in 2024 alone!
This article is part of Wiredโs new Love Bytes seriesโworth bookmarking for a deep dive later!
๐ธ The Long-Awaited Support for Australian Menopausal Women
Hooray! Expensive hormone replacement therapies will be placed on the PBS (Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme) from March this year following a $573 million Australian federal government investment in menopause, perimenopause and women's health.
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๐ช EVENTS
๐ณ๐ฑ February 14, Netherlands, A Shameless Valentine's Sip & Sketch with Vanillacooldance [RSVP]
๐ February 19, Online, Better Sex Workshop: Sexual Scripts, Better Sex Workshop with Ruth Heneke Eliot [RSVP]
๐บ๐ธ February 19, Romantic Urbanism Release Party, The Architectural League of New York [RSVP]
๐ฌ๐ง February 22, London, Pop-up Rave in a Church, hosted by Olga Ivanova [RSVP]
๐ February 22-23, Online. Exploring the Unconventional: My Therapist is a Pornstar Online Sexceptional Weekend, Sexual Health Alliance [RSVP]
๐ฆ๐บ February 27, Melbourne. Sextech Edition: CHALLENGERS MELB (FEB) FOR CATEGORY CREATORS & BRAND-BUILDERS, GROUP GROUP [RSVP]
๐ February 27, Online, Better Sex Workshop: Pleasure, Better Sex Workshop with Ruth Heneke Eliot [RSVP]
๐ March 1-2, Sexuality, Scholarship, and the Struggle for Free Expression, Woodhull Freedom Foundation [RSVP]
๐ March 5, Online, Better Sex Workshop: Fantasy & Kink, Better Sex Workshop with Ruth Heneke Eliot [RSVP]
๐บ๐ธ March 7, Texas USA, Pleasure Unrolled Fireside Chat & Networking Event, with Tristeza O. , Dr. Jessica Sanchez PhD, LMSW, MEd and Lorena Banda
๐ March 13, Online, Better Sex Workshop: Romantic Scripts, Better Sex Workshop with Ruth Heneke Eliot [RSVP]
๐ธ INVESTMENTS
๐ Bold Care Raises $5M to Expand Sexual Health Solutions in India
๐ก Founder of the Week: Janelle Toussaint
Janelle Toussaint saint is a technical product manager and a somatic intimacy educator. Janelle is experienced in leading strategic product and process initiatives with a proven track record of acing business goals. She is also the founder of LAKETI INC. INC.

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