🎀 Episode 10 🎀 is with Jemma Sawyer, who is the creator, founder, and CEO of ILOH, the UK’s first sexual health and pleasure product brand that is designed BY women FOR women. In this episode we talk about setting up ILOH, the products it provides, female pleasure, ownership of the body, women in business, egg freezing, and the pressure women feel to reproduce. We also talk about the power of harnessing technology.

(00:41): Introduction to Jemma Sawyer and how ILOH is an example of posthuman practice.

(06:48): Setting up ILOH; Anne Summers leading the way; pleasure products - how they look and where they live in the home; female pleasure; shame; the Ohnut product; the pleasure gap.

(20:04): Endometriosis; medical examinations; detaching from the body; having children; egg freezing. 

(31:09): Technology and reproduction; female empowerment; embracing technology; Donna Haraway’s Cyborg Manifesto; female run businesses; pleasure products in the lifestyle space; future ideas for trans and nonbinary involvement. 

(41:49): The design of ILOH; sustainable period products; finding solutions; the femtech sphere; talking about sex; sex education at school; masterbation; the issue with language used in courts and media; agency and ownership of the body.

Links:

ILOH Webpages

ILOH on Instagram

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