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This year at AIGA’s Design Conference, industrial designer Ti Chang shared how she’s built her career around designing for social change, and how her luxury sex toy brand, Crave, applies thoughtful user experience research and elevated product aesthetics to reduce the stigma around sex and women’s sexuality. However, because vibrators are legally classified as novelty items, consumer products that cater to men’s sexual health are more accepted and promoted through mainstream media while companies associated
Even Reddit recently updated its advertising policies to exclude any “adult-oriented products and services” from running ads on their site; however, under the new regulations, “ads pertaining to products for the prevention of pregnancy and erectile dysfunction are permissible.” As Polly Rodriguez, CEO of Unbound, puts it, the emphasis placed on family planning versus women’s pleasure as integral to sexual health perpetuates the stigma associated with sex toys and female sexuality.
Last year a series of illustrated ads for Unbound were banned from running on New York’s MTA due to their “dissemination of indecent material to minors” and “public display of offensive sexual material.” More recently, Dame faced the same ad rejection notice from the MTA, despite the fact their ads didn’t feature nudity or any anatomically suggestive content. This is a stark contrast to the very phallocentric ads for erectile dysfunction services from telemedicine brand Hims, which were approved by the MTA.
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