👋HEY ALL!

This week we’re diving into the glossy rise of celebrity sex wellness, asking big questions about AI intimacy, and cheering on real wins for sex worker safety.

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• 🔥 this week in sextech

• 💼 job openings

• 🎪 events

• 🗽 NYC is calling…

— Bryony

🔥 THIS WEEK IN SEXTECH

🇬🇧 Harry Styles’ Brand ‘Pleasing’ Launches

The unisex lifestyle brand Pleasing dropped two sexual wellness products and an NYC pop-up this week. It’s high-gloss, high-price, and I would say, very on-brand. Curious to see how this one lands...

🤔 Comfort or Consequence? AI <3 Humans

I'm a big fan of psychologist Paul Bloom’s work, especially his podcast. His latest essay, The End of Loneliness, reflects on the limits of using AI to “cure” connection. It’s not just about loneliness, but about what happens to our ability to think, create, and feel when intimacy becomes tech-automated. Originally for The New Yorker, this is such a good Sunday read.

🗽 Legislative Wins For Sex Worker Safety

Decriminalize Sex Work (DSW) recently celebrated major legislative victories in New York and Rhode Island, advancing protections for sex workers and survivors of trafficking. Read more: DecriminalizeSex.Work

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🌆 NYC, Let’s Get Intimate 🗽

This September, we are back in New York City... and bringing the magic. Think: supper clubs, design workshops, live podcast tapings… Last time? It looked a little like this 👇

And this time? We’re going bigger. Deeper. Closer to the bone. Spots are super limited, and this is your chance to join the private waitlist. 🔐

Plus: podcast tapings, design experiments, and conversations you’ll help shape.

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💼 HOT JOBS

• 🇺🇸 Sr. Product Manager, Match [Apply]

• 🇺🇸 Digital Product Manager, Billie [Apply]

• 🇺🇸 Research Economist/Senior Research Economist, Institute for Women's Policy Research [Apply]

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🎪 EVENTS

• 🇬🇧 July 31, UK, Love Machines Sessions: Where Innovation Meets Intimacy [RSVP]

• 🌐 August 9, Online, Assertive Sexual Communication: My body, my pleasure, my voice, El Placer del Saber [RSVP]

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

• 🇬🇧 August 16, London, Henna & Healing with Cysters, Vagina Museum [RSVP]

• 🌐 August 19, Online, Defying the Censors! Creative Resistance in the Face of Censorship, [RSVP]

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

Thanks for being part of this curious, creative, future-facing community.

— Bryony