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 limp.
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Lelo’s first thrusting vibrator costs $239 and promises no ‘jackhammer’ motion
Lelo leans hard on the word 'jackhammer' to sell subtlety, while gating its most interesting modes behind the app. Here's how the…
Dating appdates (May ‘26): ‘Pixel twins’, Tinder’s iris scans, and a gay hook-up gold rush
While the broader dating app market sheds Millennial users, gay hook-up apps are pulling in serious money. Match Group just put $100…
Kickstarter performs screeching U-turn on adult content rules after creator backlash
The reversal leans on a familiar villain. Stripe won't process adult content, Kickstarter ran rules to match, and the creators caught in…
Kickstarter’s sweeping adult content ban has a sextech problem it hasn’t figured out yet
Kickstarter's new Mature Content Creator Guide names Stripe directly, an unusually candid admission that payment processors are driving platform policy. But while…
Radiant Mobile wants to build a phone network ‘void of porn, LGBT, trans’
Radiant Mobile is pitching itself as the first US carrier to use non-bypassable network-level porn filtering. It's also blocking LGBT content by…
EU’s ‘porn passport’ app shipped with unencrypted passport scans and bypassable biometrics
Built by Scytáles and Deutsche Telekom, the EU's new age verification app was supposed to be a privacy-conscious solution to porn access….
Lovense launches Velvo: the app-controlled rolling bead rabbit vibrator that disappeared once before it got here
Lovense has entered the rolling bead rabbit space with the Velvo, a $119 app-controlled vibrator that syncs with other Lovense toys and…
Dating appdates (Apr’ 26): height verification, AI interventions, and Bumble’s big reinvention
From a tiny app verifying your height via LiDAR to Bumble leaning on an AI assistant to reverse its revenue slide, April…
Smaller US-based creators are taking the biggest hit as porn restrictions bite into independent incomes
SWR Data's 2025 survey of around 550 mostly US-based adult creators shows the income gap widening fastest for smaller earners. Creators making…
Stories we're tracking
Long-running editorial threads we keep updating as new evidence lands.
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Coverage thread Payment Processors vs Adult Games
What started in 2021 as isolated confusion over Steam's adult content rules, with studios like Holodexxx and Super Seducer 3 forced onto…
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Coverage thread Image-based abuse: tracking the law, the tech, and the gap between them
Eight years of coverage tracking image-based sexual abuse from the DeepNude app's brief viral moment through the nudify industry's current expansion, mapping…
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Coverage thread Age verification: A Decade of Coverage
SEXTECHGUIDE has tracked age verification as a live policy battleground since 2016, from the UK's Digital Economy Act delays and eventual collapse…
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