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🛸 An official sex toy emoji? + Exciting Job Opportunities, and Top Industry Events

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👋HEY ALL!

It's been an amazing week for Sextech School, with students across the globe from Colombia to London completing their 6 week pre-accelerator and presenting their final work. I'll be profiling a few of our grads in upcoming newsletters.

Today, I've included our exclusive list of Sextech School Alum currently raising 👇 and where you can support these companies.

It's exciting to see so many incredible offerings and ideas coming to life in our community.

If you're curious about Sextech School, don't miss our free info session later today:

Are you at the early stages of envisioning a startup, pivoting your freelance career towards Sexual Wellness, or simply curious about the exciting world of…

Read on for:

🔥 this week in sextech

💼 job openings

🎪 community events

💸 investments

— Bryony

🔥 THIS WEEK IN SEXTECH

💥 LOOK: Get vaginal care faster than this ad will be censored

Wisp unveiled today a out-of-home (OOH) campaign throughout New York City. How long till it's removed?

Wisp’s provocative ‘We Heart Healthy Vaginas’ ads take on censorship of women’s health

Startling visuals placed throughout New York City highlight increasing constraints on women’s healthcare advertising.

🎧 LISTEN: Tech Making Pleasure Accessible

ABC's 10 minute listen on sextech and disability covers a lot of ground. For people with disability, sextech can help with mobility, communication, pain management – and pleasure.

I enjoyed being a part of this, speaking to the ABC about the growing sextech market, and was even more delighted to hear the interview featured Margaret Andersen, Sextech School Alum and Founder of Touchbot Tech, a disability-led sexual wellness and body care brand who specialise in 3D printed and hand poured tools. Their amazing brand visuals featured too.

Sex tech for people with disabilities - ABC listen

There are plenty of ways technology can make life easier. For people with disability tech can help with mobility, communication, pain management – and pleasure. Sex tech is a niche market that’s growing, to make pleasure accessible to all.

✍️ SIGN: Lelo's petition to make a sex toy emoji

Look, I for one think it would be very useful to have a specific emoji for all the news in this newsletter.Petition here.

PETITION FOR THE CREATION OF SEX TOY EMOJI

There is nothing like the right emoji to elevate an everyday conversation. And yet in spite of this there is no pictogram dedicated to sex, self-pleasure or sex toys. So, in an effort to further normalize and break the stigma around

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💼HOT JOBS

🇺🇸 Press Officer,Center for Reproductive Rights[$96K]

🇺🇸 Operations Coordinator,Dame Products[$70-80K]

🇺🇸 Sex Doll Product Tester and AI Trainer,Doll Authority[Apply]

🇨🇦 Director of Programs,QueerTech[$75K-$85K CAD]

🇨🇦 Digital Marketing Assistant,Bellesa[Apply]

🇬🇧 Check out several career opportunities at theSchool of Sexuality Education, including: Press and Communications Manager, Deaf RSHE Project Coordinator, PR Adviser, Programme Facilitators, Trustee. [more details]

🎪EVENTS

💻 July 18 Online,Sextech School Info Session[RSVP]

🇩🇪 July 22-25, Berlin,IASR’s 50th Annual Meeting,IASR[RSVP]

💻 July 25 Online, Sextech School Info Session[RSVP]

💻 July 31 Online,Choice in the Crossfire: Abortion Rights and Free Expression Post-Roe,Woodhull Freedom Foundation[RSVP]

🇺🇸 August 5-6 Nashville TN,STIMULATE: A B2B Sexual Wellness Trade Show + Conference[Use the code SEXTECH for 50% off on tickets!]

🇨🇦 August 24, University of Quebec in Montreal,LSR 9th Academic Congress[Tickets]

💻 August 30 Online,Sx Tech Fuckup Talks - Summer Meetup,Sx Tech[RSVP]

💻 September 14-15 Online,Sexuality Business Summit,Sexual Health Alliance[RSVP]

🇦🇺 October 14-20,Love, Sex and Intimacy in the age of AI,SXSW Sydney- talk[Tickets](yep, I'm speaking at this! 🎉)

🇫🇷 October 18-19, Lyon, France,Sextech for Good Conference[Tickets]

🇦🇺 October 19-20, Australia and Online,Sexology in Practice Symposium 2024,Society of Australian Sexologists[RSVP]

💸INVESTMENT

Kindred Health completes $5.5M pre-Series A

Kindred Health Adds $5.5M in Funding to Transform Women’s Health in the Philippines

Kindred Health, a femtech company in the Philippines, has successfully completed its pre-Series A funding round, raising $2.5 million in the first tranche. The company has also secured commitments for an additional $3 million in the second...

Morari relaunch crowdfunding on WeFunder

Already successfully raising over 900K on WeFunder, today Morari is relaunching their crowdfunding campaign after completing their FDA submission. If you're interested in men's health, check out their climate control patch and impressive founding team.

Invest in Morari, Inc.: Climax Control Patch for a MOR Intimate Experience

Since initial campaign, Morari has made significant progress and is now nearing a major regulatory milestone.

Sextech School Alumni Currently Raising

💸NSFW seeking investment

Not Safe For Work is building a community owned sex positive network, to protect creators from financial discrimination and arbitrary deplatforming using blockchain technology. View their deck here.

💸AORTA filmsraising $250K

AORTA films has launched their first capital raise with the first $60k confirmed of their $250k goal. The internationally award-winning queer indie porn studio is pursuing a revenue based funding investment structure that offers a 2x return, and is looking to connect with aligned impact, angel investors, and family foundations looking to champion "a future of ethical fuckery." Term sheet available upon request.

💸 Luwi seeking investment

LUWI (let us wear it)is an over the counter contraceptive for women, designed as an alternative to a condom.The community investment opportunity is available via crowd-funding here.

💸LustLab seeking investment

Ethical AI Adult Content Infrastructure platform has their pitch to Investors, you can view here.

💸CHOICE closing final 10%

Choice is on a mission to de-stigmatize paid companionship and intimacy while making it safer for everyone. They are looking speak with anyone that believes in the problem they are solving at CHOICE.

That's a wrap for this week.

—Bryony🚀

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