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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Handy 2 and Handy 2 Pro shipping in February, following $1.5M Kickstarter success
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Lovense Lush Anal brings app-controlled vibrations to back door beginners
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We-Vibe Pivot 2 and Verge 2 promise comfier couples play
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Morari’s gooch-zapping premature ejaculation treatment finally launches after years of FDA battles
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‘Sexual double standard’: Men seen with more disgust than women when using sextech
University of New Brunswick researchers have documented what many in the industry have long suspected: men face harsher social judgment than women…
Pornhub 2025 Year In Review: Hentai, age verification and Coldplay
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SexLikeReal releases first images of Melody haptic stroker ahead of 2026 launch
After years of delays and a complete design overhaul, SexLikeReal's Melody stroker is finally heading toward mass production with a custom belt…
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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