Controversial ‘blended orgasm’ sex toy on sale after tech show backlash

This toy won an innovation award at a major tech show, which was taken away, then given back. Now you can finally buy it.

The “indecent” sex toy that turned off — but then turned on — a tech conference can finally be tried at home.

Osé, a massaging device which promises “blended orgasms,” made international headlines earlier this year when it was up for the Consumer Electronics Show’s prestigious Innovation Award. The device — which hypes “inside and out” climaxes — was later disinvited from the Las Vegas competition when CES organisers declared it “immoral”.

After much backlash and cries of sexism, however, the Osé was declared the award winner.

Now, the public can experience what all the fuss is about.

Lora DiCarlo's award winning Ose massager is now on sale.

Lora Dicarlo, the start-up behind the robotic massager, said on Twitter on Tuesday that the $290 device was now available for online purchase. However, the self-pleasure product won’t ship until January “due to high demand,” according to the website.

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— LoraDiCarlo Official (@LoraDiCarlo_HQ) November 26, 2019

Designed to “mimic the best kinds of human touch,” this joystick “combines a G-spot massager and clitoral mouth to arouse and stimulate both pleasure points simultaneously,” according to its product description. It sports custom, adjustable controls, is waterproof, has a rechargeable battery and is made with medical grade silicone.

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Its creator, former Navy officer Lora Haddock, dropped out of her premed program to develop the Osé after experiencing a blended orgasm for the first time, Engadget reports.

Haddock collaborated with a robotics expert and built a prototype, which she submitted to CES in 2018, when the drama began.

The toy is flexible to fit all bodies.

The Consumer Technology Association, which runs CES, is notoriously squeamish regarding sex tech. While it previously allowed a VR porn company and robot strippers on the trade show’s floor, it called the Osé “immoral, obscene, indecent, profane or not in keeping with CTA’s image,” in an email to Haddock upon its initial disqualification.

The inventor retorted in an open letter that this showed an “obvious double-standard when it comes to sexuality and sexual health.”

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Organisers have announced they will allow sex tech companies at CES 2020 from January 7 to 10 — but only for a “one-year trial basis”. Also, new rules ban booth personnel from dressing in a “sexually revealing” manner that “hugs genitalia”.

This article originally appeared on the New York Post and was reproduced with permission.