Facebook has always been about relationships. Now it’s in the dating game.

The second-least-sexy social media app (after LinkedIn) has officially entered the business of love. Facebook Dating, which has existed in other countries since last year[1], launched in the US today in the hope that Facebook can compete with existing dating apps like Tinder, Bumble, and OKCupid. How will Facebook Dating work? To use Facebook’s own words, it’s complicated. Though many...

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CES will include “tech-based sexual products” after this year’s controversy

The CES tech show is officially going to be a lot more sexy in 2020. Well, potentially a bit more sexy. Okay, it’s not going to be remotely sexy at all, because it’s still going to be a show mostly filled with sweaty middle-aged business types, and some equally sweaty journalists, all swilling around the Nevada cesspool of Las Vegas....

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CES group reinstates innovation award for women’s sex toy maker Lora DiCarlo (updated)

The Consumer Technology Association stepped in a mess[1] when it first awarded a CES Innovation Award to sex toy maker Lora DiCarlo[2] at the CES 2019 trade show. Then it took away the award, saying that the award for the female-focused micro-robotic sex toy Osé was inappropriate. Now the CTA, which stages the CES trade show attended by 180,000 people,...

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Lora DiCarlo’s CES sex toy press release made me ecstatic

A sex toy called Osé from the company Lora DiCarlo won an award at the Consumer Electronics Show. Then the show’s organizer, the Consumer Technology Association, took the award away. Lora DiCarlo founder Lora Haddock’s pointed, honest response is one of my favorite press releases of all time. Obligatory content warning: If it bothers you to read about sex toys...

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