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What can we do about the fact that there’s no regulation on the industry? How would we go about pushing for that?

dangerouslilly:

I need to write a proper blog post about this, because I have A Lot Of Controversial Feels and Thoughts.

But here’s the long and short of it: Regulation would have to come from the FDA. The FDA is pricey. I mean like you could buy a house or you could get one single sex toy certified. For a company with a large array of sex toys (let’s take Tantus, for example) it could cost something like mid-8 figures to certify their existing catalog. Not only money, but time – a year, two years. Small companies would never exist; we’d be stuck with the Big 5 (Pipedream, Topco, Doc J, CalExotics, etc) types. Variety? Forget about it.

So not only would it limit the offerings from companies and eliminate smaller companies…what would it actually do for us? Consider the long list of, for example, food additives or cosmetic ingredients that the US says is safe but plenty of folks react very negatively to. There are a number of lube brands that are FDA-certified that I’d never recommend. Consider this quote from Sarah Mueller, lube-guru of Smitten Kitten whose seminar birthed my Lube Guide:

“ “I think it’s bullshit,” Mueller told me. “There are lubes that have
FDA approval as medical devices that have been proven to increase STI
transmission rates, kill skin cells, dehydrate mucus, and a few that
even increase viral activity.“ “ (from this article)

The best we can do is spread the education about the better sex toy materials (silicone, medical-grade TPE, annealed glass, surgical/marine grade stainless steel, aluminum, titanium, gold, properly sealed wood, ABS plastic, glazed ceramic, certain stones, etc). Reviewers can keep reviewing the under-$50 body-safe material sex toys. Every year there are more and more affordable silicone dildo options on the market, even under-$35.   The more these affordable options are purchased and praised and talked about, the more the industry will create. That’s my belief, anyhow. Compare the availability now to 5 years ago? We’ve come a long way.

[Anonymous] asked:
June 20th 2017, 9:48:00 pm · 3 minutes ago
Hey! Do you have much info on sheaths/wearables? I know of the two that BD do but not many others. 

Primal Hardwere’s get a category of their own, as I think they were the first to put focus on sheaths and have a great range and amazing custom work;

As for the rest,

I’m a nonbinary lesbian and already tired of having to explain Pride halfway through the month, but here’s a basic fucking rundown.

Pride was created by the LGBT community (pan being under B, nonbinary being under T) because of the intense discrimination trans and same-gender-attracted people faced – and still face! Pride may look like a fun rainbow party march, but it has its roots in oppression and protesting to get basic human rights.

Pride is not for asexuals, aromantics, and any versions of those. Are those real and existing? Yes! But they did not and do not face the oppression LGBT people have faced. Pride was not meant for them, and things like asexual floats in the parade carrying their signs about not wanting to fuck does send the underlying message that everyone else at Pride is all about fucking, which is an incredibly harmful stereotype that resulted in, among other things, the AIDS crisis.

Pride is not for straight allies because they’re straight allies and not LGBT. 

If you’re going to offer flag colors, take the time to make your own graphic of what you’ll be offering. Don’t leave offensive or outdated terms on the picture you are using to represent your company. Don’t use incorrect flags. It would take like ten minutes to make something original that properly represents what you want to offer.

If your company is going to be transphobic, don’t offer Pride colors (Bad Dragon). If your company is going to list offensive terms and incorrect information, don’t offer Pride colors (Xenocat Artifacts). Have the most basic understanding of what you are offering and the history behind that being offered.

If you’re going to cash in on a history of oppression and human rights violations at least act like it fucking matters.

pleasureforge:

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rosefawn-no:

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lewd-vulpix:

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Bad Dragon labs winners, after spending however much time designing and perfecting a design to be community-approved and popular, after being one of the very, very few designs actually chosen to win, get $200 in cash, or $400 in Bad Dragon credit. From the beginning, you only get half the money unless you can only spend it on their own product. 

If Bad Dragon chooses to make the full size range, something that has only happened to one design since 2014, there is an additional $500 in either cash or store credit.

Bad Dragon, having only supplied the means of production and a platform for people to share the ideas on, makes that same initial prize amount after selling approximately three toys. For the full size range reward, it takes about ten mediums. With no additions, or cool colors.

TL;DR withdraw your designs from BD Labs because the only one who really benefits is Bad Dragon, and you’re expendable. 

Wait, I thought BD wasn’t even considering Labs designs anymore?
I thought thae labs were pretty much defunct/dead….

They do not visibly approve designs any more, but submissions are still accepted. If you search designs with nothing in the box, you can see a somewhat glitchy version of the most recent submitted designs (but only the first page) and Bad Dragon is able to take these designs even before they’re published. Because of this, it is literally impossible to determine how many of Bad Dragon’s designs have been stolen from submissions that were never shown and never shared elsewhere.

I didn’t even realize submitters *could* recall their designs from Labs, to be truthful, so I was a little thrown off like, ‘is it finally open again?’
But yes, seems much better to sell a design to a smaller maker and work out getting a cut per model that sells or something :/

They are not obligated to remove submissions when asked (as it’s covered by the Terms of Submission) but the people I know of who have ticketed in to ask that their designs be removed have had the request filled. It’s by no means a perfect solution, and I’m sure they have backups of submissions so they can view them after being removed, but it’s a step closer to keeping designs safe.

Live in Florida? Have design ideas? I would literally rather let you use our equipment for a weekend to get your design made and teach you some basics than see more artists getting less than what they deserve for their wonderful work through BD.

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