UNBOUND BABES HOW TO

When you were a teenager, did you receive sex ed and was it sex positive at all? In the next year, our plan is to triple the amount of content we’re creating specifically, we want to do more video content.

UNBOUND BABES HOW TO

In our new office we’re going to have a dedicated content room with a studio so that we can do more content focused on how to use these products and baseline educational stuff. We definitely want to expand it we’re actually getting ready to move to a new office. Do you plan on expanding it or keeping it online? Are there any format changes in the future? So Unbound babes has an online magazine/blog. It wasn’t until the Times asked them to comment that they were like, “okay, we’ll work with you on this,” and it shouldn’t take that. So we said, that we will resubmit, but we’re not giving our money until you actually institute the appeal process, because they didn’t approve it until we got an entire grassroots campaign on board.

It brought me back from going through cancer and dealing with the same thing where it was like, “this isn’t like your need for touch with arousal and sexual drive is not a health issue.” But for men, it’s very much considered one. It was just artistic, like commissioned art, and so when we got rejected at the same time that all of these generic Viagra company had gotten approved, it was really heartbreaking because it’s just such a blatant form of sexism where they came back and were like, well that’s a health issue and is not.

There was no nudity, there was nothing sexually explicit. I did not expect them to be rejected because Thinx went through something really similar and we had kind of gone above and beyond to make sure that there wasn’t any product photography. When you applied for the MTA advertisements in New York City, did you expect them to be rejected and have there been any updates with that? I’m seeing more and more women get funding, seeing more funds started by women. It’s tough, but I do think it’s getting better. Then it’s also the fact that like there aren’t that many female venture capitalist partners who’re the ones ultimately are making the decision–because the way venture funding works is somebody in the room has to basically stand up to all the other partners and say, ‘I really want to do this deal, I think it’s a good idea, let’s do it.’ And given our category, it’s really hard to get someone to stand up and do that, because people are really scared of what others will think. And then on the other side of the table you have basically a group of guys who are kind of like, “this doesn’t relate to me at all.” Like, “I don’t identify with what you’re doing,” and, and only nine percent of venture capital partners are, in fact, women. Despite that fact that we had a company that was cash flow positive–doing really well, growing like crazy–the stigma associated with it made it. I think when you couple that with the categories that we were in, I had trouble even getting meetings with venture capitalists. Two percent of venture funding went to women in 2016, which gives you a little bit of a sense of how ridiculously hard it is for women to start their own businesses and get funding. What sorts of challenges have you faced and was funding difficult because it was a sex toy company with a woman C.E.O? After that I started working on Unbound, but I had to save up some money before starting a business as well. So I went on to work for Senator McCaskill in Washington, D.C., then for a strategy consulting firm on Wall Street and then joined a dating startup. To me it was kind of strange that we had Bob Dole endorsing Viagra and men’s sexual needs, yet women felt really overlooked both in the shopping experience and the quality of the product. It was just one of those seedy experiences that stuck with me, because when you go through menopause you basically need lube for the rest of your life. I had my first experience shopping in the category at a shop that was on the side of the highway. And then on the other end of the spectrum–hypersexuality.

So it was realizing kind of how female sexuality is really underserved and how we’re often viewed through the lens of motherhood and maternity. sent me into menopause at 21, but none of my doctors told me that they just said I would never have children. I had a cancer diagnosis when I was 21-years-old that included radiation treatment. I mean I definitely didn’t come out of school and jump right into it. What inspired you to start Unbound Babes and how did you get into the sex tech field? Over the summer, I spoke to Polly Rodriguez, the co-founder and CEO of the company, about her favorite product, accurate sex education and what’s next for Unbound ! Unbound Babes is a company dedicated to helping people, many times young women and GNC people, explore their sex lives and bodies.