CES Revoked an Award for a Female Pleasure Device for Being 'Immoral'

CES Revoked an Award for a Female Pleasure Device for Being 'Immoral'

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https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/pa5ngn/ces-revoked-an-award-for-lora-dicarlo-vibrator-female-pleasure-device-for-being-immoral

A sex tech company won an award for innovation in robotics from the Consumer Technology Association (CTA), the organization that produces CES—and then it took it back, deeming the women’s pleasure product too “immoral, obscene, indecent, [or] profane” for its tastes.

Lora DiCarlo, a startup that raised over $1 million in funding last year and developed eight technology and robotics patents in partnership with Oregon State University Product Development Lab, was named a CES 2019 Innovation Awards Honoree in the Robotics and Drone product category for its Osé personal massager (formally called Vela).