NEW YORK—Tech- and engineering-savvy women working to make a difference in the world of pleasure products are finding a spot for themselves and like-minded colleagues in New York.
The New York Times recently profiled many of these women and their group, Women in Sex Tech. The group was founded last year by Polly Rodriguez of sex toy subscription box service Unbound and Lidia Binilla from House of plume, a seller of storage boxes for sex toys, and now boasts more than 70 members through the U.S., as well as in Spain and China.
According to the article, Women in Sex Tech counts among its members the founders of Dame Products, Janet Lieberman and Alexandra Fine, as well as the leaders of other pleasure product manufacturing companies, app development companies and more. And the membership is bound to grow as Millenials come of age.
“In 2017, women entrepreneurs in the field still seem to be very much in the minority,” the article states. “Today around 70 percent of sex product companies are run by men, according to an analysis by Unbound. But women, many of them millennials, are starting to harness their economic and social power to disrupt the industry, both on the business and on the consumer side … Millennials can be more comfortable talking about sex than their elders, explained Helen Fisher, an anthropologist and research fellow at the Kinsey Institute. ‘It’s a transparent generation that’s practical, go-getting, tech-oriented and eager to have it all.’”
Read the full piece here.
