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Virtual Girlfriends, Hormone-free Contraception, and Free Workshop on Launching your Career in Sextech
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Bryony Cole
September 06, 2024
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👋HEY ALL!
A bit of a later send this week (not that anyone really notices, do they?) as I was off the deep end in a private session today sharing my story of how I came to be working in this industry.
Here's an excerpt --
One of the key things I’ve learned is – through my "human" skills or depending on how you view traditionally soft skills, some would say they are feminine leadership skills - is that we have the power to create environments that foster both security and playfulness.
We can design spaces—whether they’re physical rooms or entire industries—that give us permission to be ourselves, to have fun, and to take up space unapologetically.
And the way to do that is through vulnerability - a distinctly human trait that in leaders have been undervalued and associated with weakness, but is in fact a superpower.
Two women that I saw ahead of me on the path before I made the pivot to sextech from tech, were Esther Perel and Cindy Gallop. Both distinctly so themselves, working in an industry that felt purposeful to me (whether you were passionate about it, or found something to piss you off that you wanted to change… to paraphrase Cindy's words "angry women get shit done!"), that these two powerhouses served as my north stars.
Finding these nodes ahead of you on your journey is so important, it helps you point your compass toward where you'd like to be... and in a world where so often it feels like I could not see non-traditional ideas of success that resonated with me, it was a game-changer.
Read on for:
🔥 this week in sextech
💼 job openings
🎪 community events
— Bryony
🔥 THIS WEEK IN SEXTECH
🍑 Hormone-Free Contraception for women
💕 Orifice.ai, and the Arousal of Rejection
🤖 Getting your start in Sextech and Sexual Wellness
🍑 Hormone-Free Contraception for women
Beaming with pride to see Sextech School alum Lisa Kinsella featured in Forbes this week!
When Lisa Kinsella of Chicago was diagnosed with breast cancer and filed for divorce in the same week, she eventually found herself in need of a hormone-free contraceptive option after cancer treatment. Kinsella then discovered that there were no over-the-counter (OTC) hormone-free options for women that also protected against sexually transmitted infections (STIs), while men could find hundreds of OTC condom brands.
💕 Orifice.ai, and the Arousal of Rejection
I love this brilliant take by Madison Griffiths on Orifice AI the virtual girlfriend and linkable toy that has been doing the rounds for a few months now. Well worth a read.
Every few years, if I end up re-uploading my profile on Hinge or wherever else, my face part of a catalogue of could-be-lovers, I’ll cop a like from one particular man who has long been throwing his hat into the ring for close to a decade. We’ve never actually met. His audacity to shoot me through a like, or something akin to that, despite me having never accepted his advances, intrigues me. Frustrates me, even. I’m not sure what it is exactly that makes me a little peeved. I think, perhaps, it has something to do with the labour of rejection, how awful and unkind it feels to turn somebody down, and how unmoved he is by this, how disposed he is to place the onus of his desires back onto me, as if–somewhere along the way–I’ll hopefully decide to unlock the hatches, to seriously consider his attempts. Or, maybe, what gets him off is not the off-chance that we will eventually clink glasses and lock lips, but rather, that we won’t: my dismissal an ingredient of his arousal.
🤖 Free workshop: Getting your start in Sextech and Sexual Wellness
Ever thought about bringing a bold, taboo-breaking idea to life?
Maybe you've got a vision for something groundbreaking in sextech, but you're not sure how to get started?
I’m hosting a live Q&A on ‘Launching in Sextech & Sexual Wellness’ —a chance to dive deep into making your dream of breaking into this industry... into a reality.
Join us for free — grab your spot here 👇
🗓 6pm Thursday for Aussies, ☕ Thursday morning for Europe, or sign up to be sent the recording ✨
💼HOT JOBS
🇺🇸 Content Creator, Dame Products [Apply]
🇺🇸 Director of LGBTQ+ Health and Wellness Services, In Our Own Voices, Inc. [Apply]
🇺🇸 Associate Manager, City Marketing, Bumble Inc. [Apply]
🇬🇧 Senior Workplace Technology Engineer, Bumble Inc. [Apply]
🇩🇪 Working Student - Project Management and Product Management, Lovehoney Group [Apply]
🎪EVENTS
🇺🇸 September 3-7, SDSCon 24, Sex Down South Conference [RSVP]
🇩🇪 September 6 Germany, Sex Tech Mixer @ The Startup Lawyers, SexTech Nordics xounds THOMAS RAe - Startup-Lawyers.de [RSVP] hosts Monique R Cornelia Steinbock Alessandro Polidoro
💻 September 12, Getting a start in Sextech & Sexual Wellness with Bryony Cole, Sextech School [RSVP]
💻 September 14-15 Online, Sexuality Business Summit, Sexual Health Alliance [RSVP]
🇺🇸 September 29, NYC, Safe Sex Expo, SPFPP [RSVP] with Courtney Brame
🇺🇸 October 1-6 Colorado, Annual Sexological Conference, Sexual Health Alliance [RSVP] with Michelle Melville-Kashon
🇦🇺 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, France, Sextech for Good Conference [Tickets] with Christel Bony
🇦🇺 October 19-20, Australia and Online, Sexology in Practice Symposium 2024, Society of Australian Sexologists [RSVP] with Cam Fraser
That's a wrap for this week.
— Bryony
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