Dezeen Debate features "innovative" vibrator that doubles as artificial insemination device
The latest edition of our Dezeen Debate newsletter features Vruit, a set of sex toys designed for self-insemination. Subscribe to Dezeen Debate now. More
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Vruit vibrator doubles as artificial insemination device
Design graduate Juliane Kühr has presented a set of sex toys for self-insemination at Dutch Design Week, which were devised to be used during sex to help pleasure take its rightful place in the assisted conception process. More
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Haptic lingerie uses AI to craft erotica based on the user's touch
Designer Summer Chen has combined artificial intelligence and sensor-embedded lingerie to create a "touch-to-text" system generating erotica, developed as part of her studies at the Royal College of Art. More
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"I have fought all my life against macho products" says Philippe Starck
The next generation of designers will need to account for a crisis of sexuality and should aim for an asexual design language, French designer Philippe Starck tells Dezeen in this interview. More
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Ringo Studio positions sex toys in athletic-themed room at Contact Sports
Brooklyn-based Ringo Studio has reimagined the experience of shopping for sex toys, creating a store in New York modelled on a collegiate locker room. More
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Tides creates massager for women going through menopause
Designers Salomé Bazin and Giulia Tomasello have tried to break down taboos with Tides, a sex toy created especially for women in midlife and older. More
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Domhnall Nolan designs modular sex furniture for "any kind of person"
Irish designer Domhnall Nolan has created the Play Pieces range of modular sex furniture that takes cues from retro gym equipment and aims to be gender-inclusive. More
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Snøhetta to expand Museum of Sex to Miami in "most ambitious undertaking yet"
Architecture studio Snøhetta has unveiled its design for a Miami outpost of the New York City museum dedicated to "celebrating the cultural significance of human sexuality". More
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Tenuto 2 is a wearable vibrator designed to tackle erectile dysfunction
British company MysteryVibe has developed a sex toy that can be slipped over the penis to help the wearer achieve and maintain an erection while also stimulating their partner during intercourse. More
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Six unusual sex toys with innovative designs
Following the release of a sex toy that turns testicles into a dildo, here are six unusual erotic toys from the Dezeen archive including a thimble that tickles and skyscraper-shaped dildos. More
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Balldo sex toy turns testicles into a dildo
British startup Nadgerz Inc has created a sex toy that allows the testicles to be used for penetrative sex. More
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Eight contraceptive designs that revolutionise sexual health
Last week Dezeen reported on the invention of Wondaleaf, an adhesive prophylactic which its creator claims is the world's first unisex condom. Here, we round up eight other contraceptive designs with the potential to challenge ideas about sexual health. More
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"World's first" unisex condom created by Wondaleaf
Malaysian gynaecologist John Tang has created a condom made from polyurethane that can be worn by both males and females during sex. More
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Rebecca Weiss designs ultrasound-powered male contraceptive device
German design graduate Rebecca Weiss has won a James Dyson Award for a male contraceptive device called Coso, which uses ultrasound waves to temporarily halt sperm regeneration. More
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Six typefaces that make use of the human body and bodily fluids
Here are six examples of typography informed by or made using the human body, including a sex-position typeface, wispy letters formed from strands of hair and letters traced from urine. More
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Balisa therapy tools help patients visualise their healing process
Spanish design student Ariadna Sala Nadal has developed a series of mental health tools for survivors of child sexual abuse, to help make their emotions more tangible and thus easier to communicate. More
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Brecht Wright Gander designs lamp with rubber orifice that lights up when "turned on"
New York designer Brecht Wright Gander has created a light that is switched on by sliding a phallic conductor inside of a puckered, rubber opening, in the hopes of maximising the user's feelings of discomfort. More
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Kama Sutra typeface is "stunning and inclusive" says commenter
In this week's comments update, readers are discussing the Kama Sutra A-Z coffee table book and sharing their views on other top stories. More
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Malika Favre's Kama Sutra typeface shows sex as a "deeply pleasurable and sometimes funny act"
Naked bodies pretzeled together into different sex positions form the letters of the alphabet in the Kama Sutra A-Z coffee table book by French illustrator Malika Favre. More
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Decor in cam girls' studios used to inform stucco wall decorations in Digital Muses project
Designers Giorgio Gasco and Gianmaria Della Ratta have created a range of decorative stucco mouldings based on the interior decor of rented chat rooms used by cam girls. More
