[crosspost] I’m the co-founder and CEO of a sex toy company (and also very pregnant). Ask me anything! AMA will happen over at r/dameproducts!

[crosspost] I’m the co-founder and CEO of a sex toy company (and also very pregnant). Ask me anything! AMA will happen over at r/dameproducts!

Hey Reddit, I'm Al Fine (u/afinehuman here as uDameProducts). I'm the co-founder and CEO of Dame Products, a sexual wellness company I started back in 2014 with my then co-founder Janet, an MIT engineer, while I was studying sex therapy at Columbia. Two very different brains, one shared frustration. Here's the thing that set us off: for decades, sex toys were designed badly, marketed worse, and built around everyone's pleasure except women's. We call that the Pleasure Gap, the measurable, well-documented fact that women's pleasure has been treated as less legitimate, less worth engineering for, less worth talking about out loud. Erectile dysfunction ads run on every platform; we get banned. That's not an accident. So we set out to close that gap with products that are actually researched, body-safe, doctor-vetted, and designed by people with vulvas for people with vulvas. (We also sued the NYC MTA over discriminatory subway ads, but that's a story for one of your questions.) I also host a podcast, A Fine Human, where I get to have the long, honest conversations about intimacy, identity, and the taboos we're all quietly carrying. It’s the kind of talk I wish more of us got to have at the dinner table. Notable guests have been Mal Wright, Priestess Francesca, and Ericka Hart. And yes, the title isn't a bit. I am very, very pregnant. Nine months of building a company about bodies and pleasure has given me some opinions about how we talk (and don't talk) about sex during pregnancy, so feel free to go there too. Please note: This is a crosspost! Drop your questions in r/dameproducts here: https://www.reddit.com/r/DameProducts/comments/1u15i1a/im_the_cofounder_and_ceo_of_a_sex_toy_company_and/ I'll be answering them LIVE (June 10) from 3 PM to 6 PM EST. Please ask me anything about business, the Pleasure Gap, the weird stuff. I'm an open book. See you there. - Al proof submitted by /u/dameproducts [link] [comments]