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Four months ago, the Consumer Technology Association (CTA) revoked a Consumer Electronics Show (CES) award that was to be presented to Lora DiCarlo for the company's "blended orgasm" micro-robotic sex toy. Now, the CTA has reversed course:
The group behind the Consumer Electronics Show is returning an award it revoked from a women's sex toy company earlier this year, which ignited a controversy around the industry's inclusion of women and acceptance of sex tech. But for now, the show's operator isn't announcing broader changes that would actually allow sex toys to be exhibited and win awards in the future.
A CES Innovation Award was initially presented to Lora DiCarlo for its Osé Robotic Massager ahead of the conference in January, honoring the device in the show's robotics and drones category. But the show's operator later revoked the award, saying that sex toys weren't allowed. Lora DiCarlo's ability to even exhibit at the show was revoked as well.
Now, the show's operator, the Consumer Technology Association, is returning the Innovation Award to Lora DiCarlo. The CTA says it "did not handle this award properly," leading to some "important conversations" about the show's policies around sex tech.
Also at BBC.
Previously: CES Announces $10 Million Diversity Fund, Revokes Award From Female-Founded Sex Tech Company
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 09 2019, @12:51PM
No, don't you get it yet?! Everybody who doesn't have regular menstruation who does anything remotely technical for a living is a dirty Russian Trumping alt-right misogynerd, and they're all collectively and severally accountable for 53% of white women voting for Trump, Kavanaugh, all those missing white women, and especially for college campus rapes committed by the football team! What a bunch of incels, unlike the football team, who regularly pop cherries and thus are not incels and are instead fine upstanding young men who have every right to stuff those misogynerds into lockers!