Dating appdates (Sep ’26): Bumble lets men go first, Stud or Dud vets your dates, and TikTok hits pause
Also this month: TikTok’s raunchy live dating test, Goose loses its famous face, Hinge turns real love stories into an audiobook, and…
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Lipstick and lawsuits: Womanizer dresses up Pleasure Air while XR Brands settles up
The Beauty is a 174mm revival of 2017’s Womanizer 2GO, reaching North America on September 22 with six intensity levels and a…
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Somnia Lab is motion capturing sex positions for its Model L robot, and the base model ships with four
Model L won’t walk, its pre-order button is disabled, and most of the humanoid imagery looks like renders rather than hardware. Somnia…
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‘Horrific violations’: Manhattan DA seizes 12 sites selling celebrity deepfake porn
One survivor’s complaint brought down sites carrying AI porn of more than 1,200 people, most of them women, but nobody has been…
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Evas Doll’s voice-controlled sex doll legs are a step, not a stride, toward walking sex robots
The upgrade spares owners from hauling heavy doll limbs into position by hand. Cut the power, though, and the legs go completely…
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SexLikeReal rebuilt Build Your Own Journey (and its power users think the old version was better)
SLR rebuilt Build Your Own Journey as a full video editor inside the site, with branching stories, overlays and conditional sex toy…
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Lelo’s F2S Double Sonic stroker makes its vibrations less even on purpose
The new stroker counts 13 modes and 16 intensity levels, five of those modes app-only, which is closer to a recount of…
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Irontech’s AI vagina add-on learns how you thrust after five uses, and then syncs with your rhythm
Walking, talking sex robots are still mostly marketing. The engineering budget is going somewhere less cinematic, into sensors, learning software and an…
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Two anonymous Hollywood producers built Rogue AI to make hardcore porn look like a studio movie
Rogue AI launched this month, a cinematic porn generator from two anonymous Hollywood producers. Safe-for-work jobs route out to models like Sora…
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We-Vibe’s Shared Touch wedges a vibrator between partners, no penetration required
Where most couples toys borrow the cock-ring shape of We-Vibe’s own Pivot 2 and Verge 2, the Shared Touch ditches that design…
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Dating appdates (Aug ’26): Overtone’s vague ‘elimination’ plan and chatfishing’s rise
Also this month: friends and family get a say on your Hinge profile, South Australia plans a nation-first dating app ban for…
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China bans AI companions that cultivate dependency, but sex robots seemingly sit outside the rules
Providers can no longer build AI companions designed to cultivate emotional dependence, under-18s are barred from virtual intimate relationships, and platforms have…
