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Sextech market explodes, meanwhile censorship prevails and robosexual research reveals ...

Sextech market explodes, meanwhile censorship prevails and robosexual research reveals ...

Bryony Cole
March 14, 2024

👋 HEY ALL!

Wow, so many great job openings this week. A lot of news.

And on a personal note, we officially kicked off our Sextech School guest speakers first sessions with Dr Zahra Stardust and Quinky Founder and STS Alum Mariia Plotkina - I love when former students come back to teach!

If you're curious about being a part of our sextech community 👉 add your name down here 👈

Making headlines this week:

😡 Daye Ads Censored in UK
🤖 Sexist Men More Prone to Forming Sexual Relationships with Robots
📈 Global Sexual Wellness Market to $54.83 Billion by 2031

+Plus:

💼 job openings

🎪 community events

📚 learning opportunities

🆕 beta testing

— Bryony

🔥 THIS WEEK IN SEXTECH

😡 Daye Ads Censored in UK

Gynae health start-up Daye's milestone out-of-home campaign launch in London has been marred by censorship, with ads featuring words like "tampon," "fertility," and images of the vaginal canal being covered up.

Sadly, this is part of a broader issue of censorship affecting discussions around women's health and menstrual products, where it is constantly prohibited on major platforms like Google, Meta, Amazon, and TikTok.

Fortunately, in this case community showed out and scrubbed off the sticker coverings - nice one Hani Lees Dresner and Florence Schechter 👏👏

Read on for how it unfolded on Founder Valentina Milanova 🇺🇦 's LinkedIn post this week. 👇

Daye ads censored?

No problem - the gynae health community has come to the rescue! A big thank you to Hani Lees Dresner from Gashtrays and Florence Schechter… | 31 comments on LinkedIn

🤖 Sexist Men More Prone to Forming Sexual Relationships with Robots

Research from Connor Leshner and Jessica R Johnson from Ontario suggests a potential link between sexism and a tendency for men to form sexual relationships with robots. The study highlights a complex interplay between sexism, masculinity, and technology.

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"Researchers found men were more likely to prefer a sex-bot over a robot friend, while women favoured robofriendship over sex.

That said, both men and women were "generally less interested in sex with robots," the study reads.

Meanwhile, men were significantly more likely to display hostile sexism and social dominance traits than women, suggesting "stark differences between men’s and women’s beliefs about other groups."

Read 👇

Sexist men may be more likely to be 'robosexual,' form sexual relationships with robots, Ontario researchers say

While both men and women are interested in relationships with robots, the study found women prefer platonic robofriendships over sex.

More reads on this topic:

The AI Girlfriend Seducing China’s Lonely Men

In China, a sassy chat bot is stealing millions of men’s hearts. It’s also recording their most intimate desires and emotions.

📈 Global Sexual Wellness Market to $54.83 Billion by 2031

In the latest market research report, the Global Sexual Wellness Market is forecasted to achieve a valuation of 𝐔𝐒$ 𝟓𝟒.𝟖𝟑 𝐛𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐨𝐧 by 2031, from its 2022 value of 𝐔𝐒$ 𝟑𝟎.𝟎 𝐛𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐨𝐧.

Astute Analytica anticipate this growth to occur at a compound annual growth rate (𝐂𝐀𝐆𝐑) 𝐨𝐟 𝟕.𝟏𝟓% over the forecast period spanning from 2023 to 2031

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🎪 EVENTS

🇸🇬 March 21, Member Meetup FemTech Association Asia ☕ [Details here]

🇩🇰 April 30, Copenhagen, Navigating Digital Censorship in Sextech and Femtech, SexTech Nordics [ RSVP here]

💼 HOT JOBS

🇺🇸 (QINCA) Sexual Reproductive Health Project Assistant, Fund for Public Health in NYC [50k-52k/yr]

🇺🇸 Director, People & Culture Business Partner, Planned Parenthood Federation of America [170k-180k/yr]

🇺🇸 Youth Educator, Partners In Diversity, Inc. [$28.29/hr]

🇯🇴 Advisor, Global Sexual and Reproductive Health (SRH) TU International Medical Corps [Apply here]

🇧🇬 QA Engineer, Daye [Apply here]

🇧🇬 Performance Marketing Executive, Daye [Apply here]

🇬🇧 Senior Content Editor, Flo Health Inc. [Apply here]

🇬🇧 Head of Finance, Mojo [Apply here]

🇬🇧 Head of Performance Marketing, Mojo [Apply here]

🇦🇺 Event Coordinator, ASHM [Apply here]

🆕 BETA TEST

If you live in the UK or Europe the beta version of Flutter's Pleasure Tracker is now open for women to test.

Co-founders Joy Mpofu & Ella Peters early stage start-up helps women track and improve their sexual experiences using AI.

The Pleasure Tracker offers an opportunity to reflect on your sexual experiences, receive a breakdown of the factors that affect your pleasure the most and start to get a deeper understanding of yourself.

⌚*Connect your wearable - if you have a Fitbit, Garmin or Oura data that is tracked by your device, this can be pulled into Flutter, adding in more health insights.

[Speaking of ŌURA, the Oura Ring announced it has introduced Pregnancy Insights to it’s women’s health features.]