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Amazon Restricted Vaginal Health Products for Being ‘Potentially Embarrassing’


Big Tech’s restrictions on adult content are crippling businesses and organizations focused on sexual health, according to a new report shared exclusively with WIRED.

Jackie Rotman, founder and CEO of the Center for Intimacy Justice, says ending what she describes as biased censorship against women’s health would unlock valuable commercial opportunities for tech platforms, and is also simply the right thing to do. The company’s adult products policy mentions a variety of sex toys and objects such as dildos and wand massagers, but doesn't specifically list dilators or similar pelvic health devices, such as the VuVa. The report alleged that Google’s biggest online advertising competitor, Meta, unfairly rejected ads for an urinary tract infection treatment and a guide to recognizing sexual coercion, which showed a hand touching a body.

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