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Bathmate's Tim Brown Talks Legal Standards of Penis Pump Production

Since the company’s inception in 2006, Bathmate has delivered myriad iterations of the brand’s namesake: a hydrotherapy pump utilizing warm water and suction to take advantage of the penis’s naturally hydraulic erectile function.

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Sexologist Dr. Mindy Brings Modern Sex-Ed Approach to Xgen Products

If your pleasure industry company isn’t currently employing a sex educator, do you even sex toy, bro? Millennial dad jokes aside, consumers have realized that it takes a high level of sexual health knowledge and a proper understanding of anatomy to create a satisfying product that’s worth their dollars.

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Sean Quinn Helps Retailers Navigate Tricky Tech as CEO of All Point Retail

A former corporate success story and serial entrepreneur who just can’t seem to get out of the technology industry, Quinn founded All Point Retail to assist retailers in need of anything from a little IT support to some serious intervention.

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Shunga Founder Manon Vallee Reveals the History Behind Her Veteran Brand

Shunga Erotic Art is best known for its boutique vibe, its stunning Japanese art visuals and of course, its curated line of oils, lotions and potions meant to be touched, tasted and smelled.

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Kix'ies Founder Samantha DeMartini Aims to Revolutionize Sexy Fashion

“I was 17 years old and getting in a boy’s truck for a ride home,” she recalls. “The most popular boy at school! But as I climbed in, my skirt got stuck in my backpack, exposing my ‘nylon butt.’ You know, when a girl’s rear end is smushed into a pair of high-waisted nylon tights.”

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Hamed Bossett-Allen, Jorge Solorzano Take Sink or Swim Distribution to New Heights

Seven years ago, two dudes were marveling over the impressively giant cheese-and-crackers spread at the ANME trade show, eyes wide like a couple of teen boys walking into an adult store on their 18th birthdays.

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Family Keeps the Kink, Commerce Coming Behind the Scenes at XR Brands

As company founder and CEO at kink- and BDSM-focused manufacturer XR Brands, Ari Suss has built his one-room-office ecommerce outfit in Maryland into a national household name in pleasure products.

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Carly S. Serves Up NYC-Style Sex Education, Toy Expertise

New Yorkers have a reputation for not f-ing around, and pleasure advocate Carly S. brings that no-holds-barred NYC attitude to her unabashed brand of sex education. An adult industry freelancer-of-all-trades, Carly is brashly unafraid to throw the realities of sexuality straight into your face.

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CC Wellness Marks 20th Anniversary With Fresh Outlook, Amplified Strategy

On Jan. 1, the team at CC Wellness rang in more than just another new year. The start of 2023 marked a huge milestone for the veteran lubricants manufacturer: the company's 20th anniversary.

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Beloved Entrenue Frontman Joe Casella Announces Retirement

Somewhere in Arizona, there’s a newly retired guy buried in a pile of books, trying to hold an awkward yoga pose while contemplating which hiking trail to hit this weekend. To the surprise and sadness of many pleasure industry veterans, that guy is Joe Casella.

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XR Brands President Rebecca Weinberg Keeps Kink, Curiosity at the Global Forefront

Full-body restraint benches, handcuff-bedecked sex couches and dragon-shaped dildos once seemed like the stuff of dimly lit, back-alley porn stores, but not so much anymore — and definitely not if XR Brands has anything to say about it.

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Adam Lewis Reflects on Vision That Spawned Hot Octopuss

Of all the homemade masturbation devices created by many a crafty young lad, very few have what it takes to see the light of day as a viable consumer product. Luckily for the men’s pleasure product sector, one such lad had business chops to match his teenage experiments.

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Kit Richardson Creates Interactivity, Intrigue at NYC's Museum of Sex Retail Store

As 2022 has become something of a Grand Reopening for store owners across the globe, retailers have understandably faced new anxieties. Kit Richardson, however, remains undaunted.

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EP Products Takes Pride in Focus on Canadian Retailers

Yet another “accidental sex toy career that spun itself into an industry success” story? It’s beginning to seem like the best way to create a thriving pleasure products business is to avoid trying too hard to make it happen.

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Signe Jarvis Eyes Trends, Promotes Sex Ed as HustlerHollywood.com Buyer

Unlike many of her colleagues, who stumbled upon fulfilling careers in pleasure product sales or marketing, Hustler Hollywood’s Signe Jarvis began her journey hoping to become a sexuality professional.

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MyHixel Empowers Male Pleasure With Online Therapy App, Masturbator

It's rare to find a powered penis stroker that isn't focused on the “big finish,” but that's exactly what the MyHixel I sets out to prevent — at least when it happens too soon.

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Exsens Expands Global Reach With Flavorful Formulas, Marketing

French sensual body product and lubricants maker Exsens is a brand with a plan: to provide and empower women with a sexy, superior experience in the bedroom and bathroom.

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Deja Vu Love Boutique Brings Las Vegas Touch to Adult Retail

It’s not a genuine trip to Sin City without popping into an adult store. Nothing concludes a night out at the clubs, casinos and bars quite like giggling at a wall of dildos with your drunk friends.

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With South American Sensuality, Orgie Company Sets Sights on US

Sensual cosmetics and body products are creating their own special sector of the pleasure industry.

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Rouge Garments Co-Founder Farah Shaikh Bonds Kink With Quality

When BDSM is a lifestyle, consumers trust industry experts like Farah Shaikh of Rouge Garments to provide them with the quality to match their cravings.

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