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🔥 this week in sextech

💼 job openings

🎪 community events

📚 new reads

📝 research

💡 founder of the week

— Bryony

🔥 THIS WEEK IN SEXTECH

• 🤖 AI Chatbot trained on Drag Queens to protect your Sexual Health

• ♀️ WomenX Biotech Limited launches new #PadX

• 🍌 Gen Z redefines conversations in Sexual Wellness

• 🎥 No AI Content at Lustery Without Consent

🤖 AI Chatbot trained on Drag Queens to protect your Sexual Health

AIDS Healthcare Foundation is rolling out an AI chatbot with a drag queen persona to make testing and treatment less scary.

♀️ WomenX Biotech Limited launches new PadX

A world first from Hong Kong to the world, PadX is a menstrual pad that detects HPV. Read more in Maaike Steinebach's post here on LinkedIn 👇

🍌 Gen Z redefines conversations in Sexual Wellness

💞 Zoomers are having less sex than previous generations as they are taking their time to explore their sexuality, discovering their orientation and asking thought-provoking questions.

📱 The tech-savvy generation is building connections virtually and pleasuring themselves via easily available sex toys. But this also comes with added anxiety, such as the risk of leaked explicit photos.

🏡 This shift is part of a larger pattern: Gen Z is defying traditional expectations of marriage and long-term relationships amidst challenges in securing jobs and financial stability.

🫦 Gen Z is also driving the conversation about sexual wellness and positivity, staying well-informed and breaking the stigmas of previous generations.

Read more in this study by Tatler Asia: 👇

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🎥 No AI Content at Lustery Without Consent

💼 HOT JOBS

🇺🇸 Institute for Sexual and Gender Minority Health and Wellbeing, Director of Training, Northwestern University [Apply]

🇺🇸 Registered Pharmacy Technician, hims & hers [Apply]

🇺🇸 Senior IT Specialist, Grindr [Apply]

🇺🇸 Staff Product Designer, Tinder [$185K-$200K]

🇺🇸 Sr. Build and Automation Engineer, Tinder [$165K-$185K]

🇺🇸 Sr. Software Engineer, Data, Tinder [$180K-$210K]

🇺🇸 Writer for AI Sex Chat Bot, [Apply]

🇬🇧 Health Promotion Specialist, Brook [Apply]

🇬🇧 Education and Wellbeing Specialist, Brook [Apply]

🇬🇧 Global Product Marketing Manager, myGwork - LGBTQ+ Business Community [Apply]

🇧🇪 Marketing Manager (and other open positions), Belle Muse, [More details here]

🎪EVENTS

🇺🇸 September 29, NYC, Safe Sex Expo, SPFPP [RSVP] with Courtney Brame

🇺🇸 September 30, NYC, Secret Sextech Event [RSVP] with Bryony Cole and Ken Herskovitz

💻 October 3 Online, Sextech School Info Sessions, Sextech School [RSVP]

🇺🇸 October 1-6 Colorado, Annual Sexological Conference, Sexual Health Alliance [RSVP] with Michelle Melville-Kashon

💻 October 8 Online, Sextech School Info Sessions, Sextech School [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, 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

📚 NEW READS

💫 Subjectified by Suzannah Weiss, MPS, CSE

Subjectified is a book about subjects, objects, and verbs. It is also a book about clothing-optional resorts, masturbation circles, and sex parties.

Written by Suzannah Weiss, she takes the reader through her adventures as a sex and relationship writer to explore how we can create a world with less objectification and more subjectification – placing women and other marginalized groups in the subject role of sentences and actions.

Offering a deeply personal critique of sexual empowerment movements, Weiss presents a way forward that focuses on what women desire, not what men desire from them.

💞 Get your copy here!

✨ Being Bad by Arielle Egozi

This is a book about what it takes to break ground, which is really just what it takes to be yourself.

"When I listed “sex work” as a LinkedIn work experience, it wasn’t for press, money, or any kind of fame, but to simply take another step closer to myself.

A lot of the world didn’t like it, and some of the world did. Either way, it doesn’t matter. I wasn’t doing it for anyone but myself."

💞 Order now!

📚 RESEARCH

🍑 New study on Sextech Founders

The body as a cultural resource for entrepreneurs in stigmatized settings: The case of sex toys by women for women is published in Journal of Business Venturing, a leading journal in entrepreneurship.

The paper can be accessed (for free) here:

💡FOUNDER OF THE WEEK

This week's founder is Lorena Alvarez Ruiz, a multi-passionate creative who founded Fiama Lore, a brand and web design studio creating cult-worthy brands for industry disruptors in sex-positive and death-positive spaces.

Connect with Lorena Alvarez Ruiz here.

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