Here Are 9 Sex Tech Firms Featured At 2020 CES After Ban Lifted

After last year’s debacle in which the Consumer Electronics Show, the annual technology extravaganza in Las Vegas, gave an “innovation” award to the Lora DiCarlo Osé sex toy, only to take away the award due to the supposedly “immoral” nature of the product, and then finally to reinstate the award after public outcry, sexual technology, already incredibly popular with the public, will finally feature prominently at this year’s CES. The show, which opens tomorrow (January 7) at the Las Vegas Convention Center, lifted its prohibition against giving awards or space in the show’s “health and wellness” category to products it deemed “immoral, obscene, indecent, profane,” or otherwise offensive—which covered the gamut of sexually oriented technology, especially those sex tech products aimed at women. With the ban lifted, The Las Vegas Review Journal surveyed the sex tech companies that will be found at CES 2020, and singled out the following nine. SATISFYER The German-based company will introduce a new app at CES—though attendees at the AVN Novelty Expo, of which Satisfyer is a sponsor, will also get a look at the app in action. XR BRANDS This California sex tech company will also exhibit at the AVN Novelty Expo, featuring its innovative line of U-Fit strap-ons, highlighted by a $119 item that the company describes as the world’s first “remote control inflatable Ergo-Fit strapless strap-on.”  MYSTERY VIBE The “mystery,” apparently, derives from the fact that this company is leading the way in wearable, and hence, easily concealable, sex devices for both women and men that can be used without anyone else knowing what’s going on. MORARI MEDICAL This sexual wellness firm’s product is less a toy than a form of technological therapy. Using “neuromodulation as a practical way to impact the communication between the brain and the ejaculatory nerves,” the company will be exhibiting a wearable device designed to curtail premature ejaculation, an issue that reportedly affects 30 percent of the male population. CRAVE This company makes wearable sex tech that doubles as otherwise innocuous-looking jewelry, allowing users to carry their sex toys with them everywhere, in plain sight. COME PLAY INC. A New York City start-up that is now testing its first product, the Petl,  which it says is a “couples vibrator designed to ensure orgasms for women having intercourse, hands and worry free.” LORA DICARLO Lora Haddock, founder of Lora DiCarlo, may be the person most responsible for the CES sex tech renaissance. It was her device, the Osé “blended orgasm” vibrator that was given and un-given an innovation award at last year’s show. With the controversy now behind it, the Osé is available for purchase and will be on display in Las Vegas this week. OHMIBOD The New Hampshire-based maker of wearable, Bluetooth-enabled devices will introduce a new app for controlling a partner’s pleasure through an Apple Watch. PULSE Most of these innovative sex tech devices would be nothing without some good, old-fashioned lube—but how to get past the messy, inconvenient process of applying the special sauce? That’s where Pulse comes in, with “patented technology invented to dramatically improve the delivery of “goops”—lotions, gels, creams, oils, lubricants, and other liquid or fluid consistencies within the health and beauty space.” The company claims to “completely modernize and elevate the user experience” of applying sexual lubricant.  Photo By Gb11111 / Wikimedia Commons