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CES has long been a launch pad for initiation and clipping - border applied science . However , atthis year ’s event , there was a conspicuous void : the close - absence of sexual practice technical school . Despite being an industry that cater to a general human experience , sex tech has always had an uneasy connexion with CES .
This year , its blatant absence begs the interrogative sentence : Why are we still so puritanically tolerant to integrating applied science and intimacy ?
In 2019 , sex tech had its newspaper headline consequence at CES whenpleasure tech companionship Lora DiCarlo win an innovation award — only for it to berescinded , and then reinstated after widespread recoil . ( Lora DiCarlo laterwent out of business ) . This disceptation highlighted the anxious relationship between the mainstream technical school industry and its more intimate cousin-german .
Fast - forward to 2024 , and it seems CES has effectively managed to chase after the sex tech industry off its show floor .
I went looking for sex - tech companies to potentially do a roundup , and there were few enough to agnise only one trend : Not in sex technical school , but in the absence thence . One company stood out : Norwegian companyOhdoki , the creators ofThe Handyand the CES - launched Oh ! , were a refreshful comportment in the otherwise prudish technical school landscape . Their John Wilkes Booth was bustle with activity , offering a stark demarcation to the largely sexual urge - technical school - wanting issue .
It ’s unclear whether it ’s CES itself that ’s trying to reduce the amount of sexiness on its show floors — the show itself has evolved a lot over the years , and this correspondent think it ’s a easing to see the so - anticipate “ booth sister ” being all but absent : A vast alteration from my first CES back in 2007 or so , where barely - garb manakin were everywhere . But while I fete the banishment of sexism — depersonalise humankind at booths has no place in 2024 — sexuality itself ought to have a place in the vernacular of engineering science .
It ’s puzzling to me why we , as a biotic community , keep erasing gender from tech — when it ’s such a universal part of the human experience — to such an extent .
