How A German Inventor s Basement Experiment Led To Female Orgasms Worldwide

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id="article-body" class="row" section="article-body"> Is the Womanizer for the dining room or the bedroom? Maybe both. Wow Tech When Michael Lenke set out to battle inequality between men and women, he didn't travel far. He walked down a flight of stairs to his hobby cellar in Metten, Bavaria, in southern Germany, took an aquarium pump and a plastic hose and got to work. The inequality Lenke wanted to fix wasn't about money or leadership. It was about the female orgasm. Many studies that half of all women rarely or never orgasm. When Lenke read the statistic, he was astonished -- and determined to do something about it. "I went through all the technical possibilities and soon thought: probably air pressure could work," Lenke said. Seven years and millions of orgasms later, Lenke's creation, known as the , has become one of the best-selling devices in the world -- despite a name that sounds more cringe-worthy in English than intended. According to , the Berlin-based company , sales of the Womanizer have topped 3 million, led by shoppers in Europe and the US. The 70-year-old German inventor discovered that the female orgasm isn't actually that much of a mystery. It's more a question of pressure, suction and blood circulation. Meanwhile, the Womanizer exemplifies how sex tech devices for women have been shifting from the X-rated tools to lifestyle products marketed as a means of female empowerment. For that to happen, however, the marketing and design of sex tech devices had to be de-sexed a bit. Not exactly an easy task. The Womanizer Premium. Wow Tech In January, for the first time in the 50-year history of the massive trade show in Las Vegas, under the health and wellness category if they are "." This follows a 2019 controversy about what is allowed and what isn't. The parameters haven't been so clear in the past. The Consumer Technology Association, which hosts CES, awarded sex tech company a coveted Innovation Award in the robotics and drones category at the 2019 show. CTA and . This set off a debate about gender bias and whether sex devices should be considered tech. "There has always been a sexualization of technology at CES," said Carolina Milanesi, an analyst at Creative Strategies. "But until now, women were side actors for the pleasure of the attending dudes. So here we were for the first time with a device that was solely for the pleasure of women." The rocky road to female climax Lenke, a self-taught inventor, patented a machine to combat hay fever and created an earthquake-alert system. The "Happy Bonsai," a process that shrinks plants without genetic engineering, made Lenke a millionaire at 27. But the road to female climax was "rockier" than he expected, he said. The most difficult part: As a man, he couldn't fathom how it felt. Click for more on the intersection of technology and sex. He needed his 57-year-old wife, Brigitte Lenke, to collaborate and help test the prototypes he built. Brigitte is a banker and his long-time business partner. They've been married for 30 years and live in Metten, a small town nestled on the river Danube just down the road from a famous Benedictine monastery dating back to 766. Brigitte wasn't available for an interview. Lenke discusses all his invention ideas with Brigitte at the kitchen table. She dismisses half of them. But with the Womanizer, Brigitte saw the potential straight away. And according to Lenke, she endured discomfort, pain and outright boredom to help bring the invention to life. Brigitte Lenke and Michael Lenke with some Womanizers. Wow Tech The name was her idea, an attempt to highlight that this product was entirely for women. The first prototype Lenke put together in his basement looks more like a vintage bicycle dynamo than a slick consumer product. He asked his wife to test this metal aquarium pump innovation. She agreed, putting the hose over the most sensitive part of her body, according to an . The prototype of the Womanizer consisted of a modified aquarium pump and a plastic hose. Michael Lenke "Technically, the modified aquarium pump worked," Lenke said. "But it didn't work for my wife. She still holds it against me." The reason: The suction was too strong. The clitoris has 8,000 nerve endings, double the amount of the glans of the penis. The first attempt was just too much. Lenke added a second compressor. Sometimes, the vibration wasn't exactly right. Sometimes, Brigitte didn't feel anything at all. It took up substantial amounts of her time, she said in an with the German tabloid Bild. "After work, I was ironing, when he said: 'Come to the bedroom and test it.'" Finally, after two years of trial and error and tests by Brigitte, Lenke had it. "This is it," he [http://www.alexa.com/search?q=recalls&r=topsites_index&p=bigtop recalls] his wife saying. "This will be a world success." Beyond words Five years after the launch of the first Womanizer, there are nearly a dozen versions of the product ranging in price from $69 to $299. Womanizer Pro40, which sells for $99 on Amazon, and 68 percent of buyers give it a 5-star review. Among the comments: "I honestly don't know how I lived life before this." "Ten years post-menopause and typical medications left us without her satisfaction. This device cut through that like a ray of sunshine. I forgot how much fun it is to hear her moans. She is thrilled to feel such pleasure again." "Jesus H. Christ on a biscuit. This thing is beyond words." "I had to pry it from her hands to get her to stop. I think if you put it on a stick and dangled it in front of her, she could win the Boston Marathon." "Only criticism: the name sucks. Who the heck sat down and gave it a sales pitch with that dumb name?!" The Womanizer Classic. Wow Tech How it works: A silicone head seals off the clitoris. Within this small area, there is constant change between vacuum and overpressure, which helps blood circulation. Lenke said his device has a 95% climax guarantee. "Women even get an orgasm if they don't want or intend to," he said. This is also what some consumers criticized. For some, using a Womanizer felt like eating a meal replacement bar instead of enjoying a home-cooked stew. The bottom line is the same: You are well fed. Satisfaction, however, means different things for different people. Some felt the climax was too mechanical, more of a sneeze and less of a sensual experience. To deal with this complaint, the company incorporated a new setting to take out the predictability of the bodily reaction. Still, Lenke's touchless focus on the clitoris sets the Womanizer apart from other devices. "The key point was to develop something that didn't vibrate and didn't need any skin contact," he said. The Womanizer works with air technology that Lenke patented. "They were innovators in the market," said Coyote Amrich, who for the last 14 years, has worked as director for purchasing at the sex-positive adult shop Good Vibrations. The Womanizer is in the top five of its best-selling products, she said, No. 1 being the Magic Wand. But the Womanizer was a trailblazer: Many so-called "clit-suckers" have arrived after it, "trying to emulate its sensation," Amrich said. Bathtub jets When it comes to female pleasure, the clitoris seemed to be some type of secret for much of world history. It was in the 1960s when feminists revoked the Freudian idea that female orgasm should only be vaginal and reached through intercourse. Early sex tech largely was disguised as something else -- or household devices were used as sex toys. The Magic Wand, with its unprovocative aesthetic of a kitchen appliance, was initially built to relieve sore muscles. But soon, it was used in sessions of sex educator Betty Dodson. The bidet, a bathroom appliance that sprays water, helped women climax for years, not to mention shower heads and bathtub jets. Lenke, long before the Womanizer, learned about this. He had invented a device he called the Magic Finger, a vibrating applicator intended to massage moisturizer into the face. Sex educator Betty Dodson at the NOW's Sexuality Conference in 1974 with the Hitachi Magic Wand. Betty A. Dodson Foundation "The Magic Finger was a flop," Lenke remembers. The TV shopping channel wanted to stop selling it. But Lenke wanted to try it with another host. He remembers the new host saying: "This is great for massages" while she touched her stomach. Sales skyrocketed, according to Lenke. Perhaps he had been marketing the product in the wrong category, he thought. Lenke capitalized on the pleasurable side effects. He doubled the price of the Magic Finger, changed its name and sold the product at adult industry fairs. The Tantra Beam became a best-seller in Europe. Capitalizing on feminism Over the years, seeped into mainstream culture, normalized by shows like Sex and the City. New brands of vibrators were bubblegum-colored, in the shape of blue dolphins or pink rabbits.

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