Episode 11: Nerdy Talk | Womxn Leading Sex Tech with Lora DiCarlo
In Episode 11 of the SensuElle Podcast, host Ari interviews CEO & Sex Tech Founder Lora DiCarlo • she/they live on Clubhouse for the “Pushing Pleasure” series.
Lora DiCarlo and a panel of femme technologists chat about the resilience it takes to work in the booming Sex Tech industry and the inherent activism of the sex-positive space.
Lora answers Burning Questions like:
✨ WTF is Biomimicry?!?
✨ How Lora DiCarlo is creating some of the most innovative Sex Tech on the market
✨ What it was like to quite literally write the book on Gender Bias in Sex Tech
✨ Why sexuality makes us human
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Editor’s Note: This talk was part of a live podcast series for the drop-in audio app Clubhouse on March 10th, 2020. Bear with the audio, please!
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Featured in this Episode
Lora DiCarlo
CEO and Founder of Lora DiCarlo
About our Guest: Lora DiCarlo founded her namesake brand in 2017 with a mission to create a more sexually equitable world. Prior to launching, the brand broke ground at CES, with its flagship product Osé, winning a coveted innovation award. Quickly rescinded, the CTA cited the product as “obscene”. Lora quickly became a vocal advocate for sexual wellness brands, stressing the importance of inclusion in the broader wellness category.
Continuing to garner accolades, the brand has seen explosive growth with over ten patents pending for its award-winning technology. In addition to becoming a leader in wellness tech, Lora is building a team rooted in her founding principles of respect, empowerment, and integrity.
Pronouns: she / her / they / them
More from our Guest: LoraDiCarlo.com
Follow our Guest: Instagram // Lora DiCarlo HQ Instagram
Episode Resources
Resources, Tangents, & Mentions:
A new law intended to curb sex trafficking threatens the future of the internet as we know it — Vox
How a New Senate Bill Will Screw Over Sex Workers — Rolling Stone
The Tumblr Porn Ban Punishes Sex Workers for No Reason — GQ
Thot Leader Podcast x SX Noir
Hacking Hustling (resource site)
Sex Ed // Definitions:
Biomimicry - the design and production of materials, structures, and systems that are modeled on biological entities and processes — From OxfordLanguages.com
Venture Capital - money, technical, or managerial expertise provided by investors to startup firms with long-term growth potential — From Investopedia.com
FOSTA / SESTA - “ FOSTA-SESTA (The Stop Enabling Sex Traffickers Act and Allow States and Victims to Fight Online Sex Trafficking Act), now referred to as Public Law 115-164.
FOSTA-SESTA created an infrastructural precedent to expedite the process [of] barring marginalized communities access to resources and technologies. This has lead to a massive over-response from social and financial technologies. Companies like Square Cash, Paypal, Venmo, Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, and Tumblr already included anti-sex work clauses in their Terms of Service (TOS), but after FOSTA-SESTA, sex workers face increased discrimination and erasure.” — From HackingHustling.org
Sources // Further Reading:
CES — Lora DiCarlo blog
Open Letter to CES — Lora DiCarlo blog
Talking Tech: What Makes Lora DiCarlo Toys so Unique — Lora DiCarlo blog
Sex Microrobotics are Here, But They’re Not What You Think — Lora DiCarlo blog
More info on FOSTA/SESTA — Hacking Hustling