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👋 HEY ALL!
Valentine's Day oh boy 🏹
One of the most popular days for sex toy spends in the year. Brands in the space are in marketing overdrive.
A highlight? Aussie toilet paper brand Who Gives A Crap, are returning to their hugely popular 'Flush Your Ex' campaign again. Yes, you can take your ex's old love notes, cards and turn them into recycled toilet paper. 🧻
Making headlines this week:
🌿 Cannabis and Sexual Wellness Collide
🤖 Technosexuality in the New York Times
📈 India's Male Sexual Wellness Market Poised for Growth
+Plus:
💼 job openings
🎪 community events
💸 investments
— Bryony
🔥 THIS WEEK IN SEXTECH
🍬 Cannabis and Sexual Wellness Collide
Is it the first time two vice industries have blended?
Nope.
But did it make Trend Hunter this week?
Yes!
Lavinia THC gummies for before and after the deed are profiled in this TH piece:
Industry Implications
1. Wellness and Personal Care - The growing intersection of cannabis and sexual wellness is creating new opportunities for brands in the wellness and personal care industry.
2. Alternative Medicine and Supplements - Functional ingredients in cannabis-infused gummies are disrupting the alternative medicine and supplements industry, offering innovative solutions for intimacy and sleep.
3. Adult Products and Accessories - The Lavinia THC gummies highlight the potential for disruptive innovation in the adult products and accessories market, with cannabis-infused products tailored for enhanced intimacy and sleep.
🎧 BONUS LISTEN: You can also check out my Future of Sex podcast episode on the topic: "We Need To Talk About Cannabis And Sex"
☝️ The ep is from 2020 and features brilliant experts in sex/cannabis space.
(Wait, you didn't know I had a podcast? Yes, that's how I got started in sextech... )
🤖 Technosexuality in the New York Times
Over the weekend, NYT published an essay by Allie Rowbottom that tracks her own emotional experience with her AI girlfriend.
If you're not game to set up your own AI partner for an experiment, this is a way to understand the experience, with nods to other sextech and founders such as MakeLoveNotPorn and VDOM.
I found the comments section insightful; a direct pulse take on how everyday people feel about intimacy - its components and its importance.
💋 📈 India's Male Sexual Wellness Market Poised for Growth
India's sexual wellness market is on the brink of substantial expansion. According to Allied Market Research, the market is steadily increasing at a rate of 5.8% annually and is anticipated to surpass $2 billion—or Rs 17,000 crore—by 2030. [Read more here]
🎪 EVENTS
🖥️ Feb 19, Virtual, How to Break Into Sextech [FREE workshop]
🖥️ Feb 22, Virtual, Go Fund Yourself - a crowdfunding workshop by AORTA films [RSVP here]
🇦🇺 Feb 28, Melbourne, Future of Dating with SOON Future Studies x Steph Clarke x me 😉 [RSVP here]
💼 HOT JOBS
🇩🇪 Scientific Co-Founder, OhMyV [Apply here]
🇪🇸 Social Media Strategist, Platanomelón [Apply here]
🇺🇸 Impact Manager, Julie Products Inc. [Salary $90,000-110,000 USD]
💸 INVESTMENTS
🤝 Dame Products acquires Emojibator
Sexual wellness brand Dame Products has acquired sex toy maker Emojibator for an undisclosed sum.
Read more from Dame Co-Founder and CEO Alexandra Fine 👉 here
💰 Zora Health raise $740K USD
Zora Health raised US$740K, reaching their S$1,000,000 funding target, to launch its one-stop fertility care platform in Singapore.
With initial backing from Antler, this round saw participation from angel investors including Cheryl Goh (Grab), Prajit Nanu (Nium), Alan Jiang (beam), Lisa Enckell (Antler), and Åsa Lidén (formerly from Pitch.com).
Read more from CEO Anna Vanessa Haotanto 陳安娜 on 👉 the 158 pitches it took to get there.
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See you next week!
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