Polly Rodriguez, CEO, and Co-Founder of unbound is a rebellion us feminist. Who focused on making sexual health and wellness accessible to all women? Polly Rodriguez is an entrepreneur who founded Unbound in 2012 to change the way women understand and shop products that helps to promote a healthy sex life. Throughout the years the company has expanded over 700%. The Manhattan-based company manufactures sex toys and sends its subscribers a box of products every year. Polly Rodriguez shares her inspiration to Co-find the women of Sex Tech was buying a vibrator and lubricant and the embarrassment she felt while purchasing the sex products as a twenty-one-year-old when she diagnosed with colon cancer which led her to menopause at an early young age.
Polly Rodriguez and Lidia Bonilla are the founders of Women of sex Tech. They define Women as sex Tech more than a company, a female-led women’s sexuality movement that has made its home in New York city instead of Silicon Valley. Sex tech supports women and kids to talk to their parents or relatives about sex. The main aim of Unbound and Women of sex Tech Coalition is to uplift the women and create a friendly environment for the women where they can share their sexual experience and buy sex toys. Based on New York City, the group makes organic and fair-trade lubricants and condoms which is easily accessible by women.
Women of sex tech is a coalition of Dame products and two other companies like Unbound. Dame products designed two vibrators, the FIN and the Eva which helped them to get the widespread media attention. Founder of the website MakeLoveNotPorn.com helped popularize the term “sex Tech” and defines it as technology “designed to enhance, innovate and disrupt in every area of human sexuality and human sexual experience.”
Polly Rodriguez and the Women of Sex Tech company had many barriers around them as they are not allowed to advertise on the various social media platform. Facebook and Instagram are some of the social media whose guidelines don’t allow women of sex Tech coalition to advertise. Moreover, banking and finance company also do not support them as their bank account tends to shut down all the time and the Insurance company doesn’t give them the policy. Women entrepreneurs in the field of sex tech seem to be in the minority as men run around 70 percent of the sex product companies. The most significant challenge is raising money. As the entrepreneurs and workers of the women sex tech are females, they lack male investors. The study shows more than Ninety percent of partners at the top 100 ventures worldwide are males.
Although, various barriers, Ms. Rodriguez and the women of sex tech coalition seem to be positive about the company as she said, “The current political climate has generated even more interest from women in her products and agenda”. For the members of Women of sex tech, their encouraging talk is more than a personal and professional mission. They are here to promote women and their healthy sex life.
