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Jun 2024
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Sex Tech & Closing the Orgasm Gap with A...

Danielle Bezalel, MPH: Sex Educator | Pleasure Expert | Rom-Com Critic
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DB sits down with Anna Lee, co-founder and CEO of Lioness, to talk about how her biofeedback vibrator is changing the game and making it as easier than ever to understand your body and experience mind-blowing orgasms. They geek out over tracking your pleasure, brainstorm their MVP sex toy lineup, and hear a hilarious voicemail from an adult entertainer listener. 

Anna Lee is the co-founder and CEO of Lioness, the startup that built the world’s first and only smart vibrator that gives you biofeedback orgasm data through science and sexperiments. Anna was previously a mechanical engineer at Amazon and most recently named one of Newsweek’s 10 Innovators Disrupting Healthcare as well as Forbes 30 Under 30. Anna has made it a mission to expand understanding and research in female sexual wellness.

06:39 The birth of Lioness 24:58 Exploring sexual health and tracking your pleasure 28:15 Safeguarding user privacy in sex tech 33:23 The need for more research in sexual health —— Do you have a silly sex story to share, need some advice, or have thoughts on the episode you just heard? Send us a voicemail for a chance to be featured on the podcast! 

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Sex Ed with DB is a feminist podcast bringing you all the sex ed you never got through unique and entertaining storytelling, centering LGBTQ+ and BIPOC experts. We discuss topics such as birth control, pleasure, LGBTQ+ health and rights, abortion, consent, BDSM, sex and disability, HIV, sex in the media, and more. —— Sex Ed with DB, Season 10 Team:

Creator, Host, Executive Producer: Danielle Bezalel (DB)

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