This is the Osé personal massager . A female - centric sexual practice toy that can mime the flavor of a human mouth , tongue , and fingers , create by an almost exclusively female team and choose for a Consumer Electronics Show ( CES ) award in robotics – until that award was revoke and the product was banned from showing at the conference , sparking lecture of sexism and gender bias .
Onthe company site , Lora DiCarlo report the production as “ the only product design for hands - gratis blended orgasm ” . It use ripe micro - robotics “ for an experience that feels just like a real partner , ” adapting to the substance abuser ’s body for a personal fit . lineament that clearly impress the jurist , who selected Osé as one of its honorees for the CES 2019 Innovation Awards in the Robotics and Drone product category .
Lora Haddock , founding father and CEO of Lora DiCarlo , called this preeminence a “ feather in our collective chapiter ” . regrettably for the companionship , however , this particular feather was before long withdrawn . Just one calendar month later , the company was told that Consumer Technology Association ( CTA ) administrators ( who own and lam CES ) would be annul the awarding and that the party would not be permit to march their product at CES 2019 .
The reason ? In the words of the CTA : " Entries deem by CTA in their lonesome discretion to be base , obscene , indecent , profane or not in keeping with CTA ’s persona will be disqualified . "
While this could be prudishness on behalf of the organizers , it is interesting to take a smell at some of the products not considered " immoral " or " obscene " in premature years . 2018 , for example , saw both the unveiling ofa unexampled sex dollthat bore an unnerving resemblance to a material - life human womanandpole - dancing mechanical man , which can perhaps best be described as feminine - looking terminators . And as forvirtual reality porn , that seems to now be a veritable feature film of the show where better are even give a chance to stress it for themselves , popping up once again in 2019 .
So , does that mean a handless vibrator is considered " base " and " lewd " – but men having sex with a distaff - looking robot or drooling over scantily - clad women is not ?
" Clearly CTA has no issue allowing explicit manlike sexuality and joy to be showily on display , " Haddock wrote in astatement . " Other sexual urge toy have exhibited at CES and some have even won award , but apparently there is something different , something threatening about Osé , a product create by women to authorise char . "
It is deserving mentioning that vibrator have been exhibited in the past , including 2016’sOhMiBod ’s modeland last year’sARTGASM .
An updated statement from CTA take that Osé does n’t tally into any existing categories and , therefore , does n’t qualify . According toBuzzfeed , they say it could not be debate a robot or drone because " it ’s an adult product " . This begs the question whyaward it the honor to begin with .
This just seems to be the latest sexuality - related contestation in a series of bungle for CES , frombooth babestoa discrete lack of distaff speakersin recent years .
