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The future looks bright and bleak ✨💫
Bryony Cole
March 07, 2024
👋 HEY ALL!
Tapping this one out from SouthStart festival in South Australia.
It's been a blast connecting with some of you in real life as part of _SOUTHSTART and a privilege to explore the future of sex, love and happiness in conversation together and not on screens.
Returning to my inbox, there's a stack of toy releases this week, updates on artificial conception, hackers targeting USB vibrators and some great jobs with ethical p*rn companies, Erika Lust and Make Love Not Porn.
Making headlines this week:
👶 Making Babies... Artificially
🥝 OhNut Launches Kiwi For Vaginal Entry Pain
🕵️♂️ Hackers use Vibrators for Personal Data Theft
+Plus:
💼 job openings
🎪 community events
— Bryony
🔥 THIS WEEK IN SEXTECH
👶 Making Babies... Artificially
New technologies could reimagine baby-making as we know it. In vitro gametogenesis (IVG) – turning skin cells into induced pluripotent stem cells, then turning those into eggs and sperm, is becoming more possible.
What about modifying DNA and artifical wombs?
Read on in this BBC piece by Prof Henry Steely, Genetics at the Stanford School of Medicine ⬇️
🥝 OhNut Launches Kiwi For Vaginal Entry Pain
OhNut creator Emily Sauer and her team at The Pelvic People are continuing to revolutionize innovation for pain during sex with their newest product, Kiwi. Designed to help with vaginal entry pain - this is for anyone experiencing burning, tightness, tearing at the vaginal entrance. The design had the input of over 90 clinicians and researchers (and years of patient insights).
More toys launched this week, including:
🕵️ Hackers use Vibrators for Personal Data Theft
According to a Reddit thread, hackers have installed Lumma on some USB vibrators to get your personal information.
🎪 EVENTS
🇩🇰 April 30, Copenhagen, Navigating Digital Censorship in Sextech and Femtech, SexTech Nordics [ RSVP here]
💼 HOT JOBS
🇺🇸 MLNP Curator - Temporary, MakeLoveNotPorn [$24/hr]
🇸🇬 Technical Team Lead, Erika Lust [Apply here]
🇦🇺 Surrogacy Expert, Carrot Fertility [Apply here]
Talking about Sex, Love & Happiness at SouthStart this week
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