If you’ve never heard the word ‘sextech’ before, we promise we didn’t just make it up to make ourselves feel important. This blog post explains what sextech is and why we chose to describe our products as sextech rather than sex toys.

But it’s like this. Virtually everybody masturbates, the majority of people enjoy it, and yet there’s still a substantial stigma surrounding sex toys in general – and around male pleasure in particular. Referring to our products as sextech instead of sex toys is a useful way to sidestep some of that stigma, and ultimately, that’s good for all of us.

 To summarize, sextech is a rapidly growing industry that is building its reputation on combining human pleasure with technology and engineering innovation. The same stigma that afflicts sex toys afflicts sextech though, despite the slightly more polished terminology.

Sextech is often dismissed as a waste of resources, or misunderstood as some kind of Ready Player One speculative science fiction, in which everybody has sex remotely with VR goggles and haptic feedback suits. It’s not really like that: sextech is already here, and it’s beginning to shape the future of pleasure and intimacy in unexpected ways.

From improving access to sexual health resources to creating inclusive sexual solutions for marginalized groups, sextech isn’t just sex toys and VR porn, it’s also about personal pleasure, education, and innovation.

SEXTECH FILLS EDUCATION GAPS

Sexual pleasure is central to our wellbeing, and the quality of our lives. A satisfying intimate life extends for beyond the bedroom, but we’re very bad at talking about it culturally. Shame-free sexual health resources are heartbreakingly limited in many parts of the world, but with that said, sex education isn’t really good anywhere.

Sextech has the power to upend the traditional power dynamics in this narrative.

Sextech can help to fill the gaps in education, by leveraging community knowledge, channeling it through digital technology, and delivering it to the people who need it most. And it can do so in the privacy of the user’s own home. 

For example, let’s say a person is struggling with their sexual identity, but they live in an area where there might be consequences just for telling someone they trust about it. Sextech, perhaps via an anonymous online platform, might be able to help direct them to safe resources without anyone around them having to know.

SEXTECH IMPROVES LIVES

Similarly, and more specifically, even in relatively liberal places, an issue like male sexual dysfunction comes loaded with so much social embarrassment and shame that the people suffering from it seek help at alarmingly low rates. A self-diagnosis app built on AI might anonymously guide them towards a physical product, perhaps a vibrating cockring, that can help them overcome or compensate for their issue, and inject their life with a new sense of fulfilment once again.

Sexual fulfilment has any number of positive health benefits, from better sleep hygiene to reduced stress and strengthened immune responses. When sextech supports and promotes healthy sexual expression, it improves lives at every touchpoint.

MOBILITY ISSUES

While we at KAOTIK don’t specifically make or market sextech for people with disabilities or limited mobility, those use cases are always on our minds. We recognize, naturally, that describing a male masturbator as inherently inclusive by design would be an overreach (since almost by definition our sextech requires a user to have a penis) you can’t argue that they don’t have huge utility potential for people with limited mobility, or perhaps chronic pain.

Take Jetpack for example. Manual masturbation requires a surprising amount of physical dexterity, and something as common as arthritis can be an obstacle. Even a temporary injury can be inhibiting: it’s difficult to masturbate if you’re wearing a cast on your arm.

Jetpack is a substantial device that can be held in two stationary hands which the sleeve does all the vigorous work on your behalf. Cocoon, Shockwave, and Shotty can all be laid upon, or used handsfree. The app control functionality of KAOTIK products alone opens up huge potential for personal exploration.

These are the surprising benefits of well-engineered sextech: they can reintroduce people to their own pleasure, and that’s worth celebrating.

FUNDAMENTALLY TRANSFORMATIVE SEXUAL TECHNOLOGY

Sextech is not a marketing trend. It’s a new – but fundamentally transformative – vector for human pleasure.

Cynics and naysayers predict a future in which human connection is eroded by the onslaught of inhuman technology. It’s true there does seem to be a decline in interpersonal intimacy as our lives are increasingly dominated by screens full of pixels. And it’s easy to argue that as our world becomes more and more interconnected, we are drifting apart.

If that’s true, that it raises two points for consideration. First, perhaps sextech is a solution, and not a problem. Couples separated by distance can use connected sextech to maintain a sense of intimacy. And AI-powered therapy can reduce the cost and the discomfort of seeking professional relationship support.

The second, more controversial perspective is this: few of us have the power to roll back progress, and if the future is a less physically connected one, shouldn’t we find ways to enjoy it regardless? Why do we need to meet a changing sociocultural landscape automatically with dread? If the skeptics are correct and the future is a more isolated one, we should not simply become sexless automatons. We will adapt, and look for ways to be happy in it.

IN SUMMARY

Sextech might be a new term, but it’s not a sideshow. Far from it: it’s the new sexual frontier. As the world around us gets smarter, and even our refrigerators know our food preferences and dietary habits, doesn’t it make sense that something as fundamental as sex keeps pace?

We must build technology the honors and nurtures our innate human need for connection, sex, and pleasure.

THAT’S why sextech is important.