Sexual health, Aguilera said in a press release, has long lacked products designed for female-specific needs.
Sexual health, Aguilera said in a press release, has long lacked products designed for female-specific needs.
“I’m thrilled to be part of a woman-owned business, and building a brand where women can recognize Playground as a product that is speaking to them with an informed perspective,” the release said.
In interviews this week, Aguilera champions Playground being made by women in a field dominated by men. That’s why the city’s most famous sexologist, Carol Queen, bristles a bit at Aguilera’s statement.
“It’s a new age of celebrity involvement with the sexuality space—even as sexuality and gender issues become even more powerful lightning rods than they already were,” Queen said. “It’s a pretty weird time to be alive.”
Bay Area sexual health retailer Good Vibrations was founded with a similar mission some 46 years ago. Queen has noticed many more flower over the past decade.
“Way too many of them enter the marketplace without acknowledging the people, products and businesses that have been here for decades, paving the way both inside and outside the industry,” Queen said. “And I would really like to see that acknowledgement be a standard line in their stories.”