Not real, but the idea of sextech to prevent cheating IS disturbing
From when it first appeared last year, reports of a super high-tech, specific fingerprint unlockable brasserie have continued to pop up on Instagram, Telegram, TikTok, and other social media platforms.
Only on Snopes, the respected hoax-debunking site, can you discover that the bra itself is real and functions as described, put your wallet away.
Because rather than a purchasable product, it’s actually a creation of ZAWAWORKS, a self-described “delusional inventor.”” He semi-seriously announced it back in 2024, posting to X, “I invented a ‘fingerprint recognition bra’ to prevent cheating! Now only your boyfriend can remove your bra!” His intentions were far from sincere.
As he later shared with Snopes via email, “I create funny contents and post the videos on X and YouTube every Friday, to make people laugh.”
Hoaxes or not, ZAWAWORKS’s playful, sexually charged ingenuity is undeniable, but framing his smart bra—not to mention the sentiments expressed by those who didn’t get his joke—as an anti-cheating device clearly demonstrates that while we might be getting increasingly technologically savvy when it comes to sex, our attitudes have a long way to go.
Boobs keyboard, Queen VR, and more
A fingerprint-keyed bra is merely one of a multitude of humorous sexual devices ZAWAWORKS has put together.
Case in point, there’s his—excuse the painfully obvious pun—titular Boobs Keyboard (NSFW) which may only have two keys, but they are more than enough to deliver its punchline.
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His YouTube channel also features breastfeeding cigarettes, which exchange one oral fixation with another; a sword that, in true hentai fashion, somehow manages to only cut away a person’s underwear and not any clothing worn over it; Queen VR, a female-domination simulator; and a host of other, equally farcical gadgets.
Technically, ZAWAWORKS’s bra uses an off-the-shelf fingerprint reader coupled with an M5Stack microcomputer to automatically unlock when an authorized user touches it.
When to laugh, when not to
I do not want to unduly jeer at ZAWAWORKS’s charmingly comedic contraptions, but his “anti-cheating bra” feels like a step in the wrong direction, raising as it does the idea of sex as something to be given or taken instead of a shared, mutually pleasurable experience.
Even Neil deGrasse Tyson doesn’t get it, saying in a 2016 interview with Andy Samberg he considers sex with artificial companions that look like “your wife” would be another form of cheating.
Psych Central points out the idea of cheating can be considered a form of toxic monogamy, which “Emphasizes jealousy and possessiveness as the markers of what true love is. Simultaneously, it ignores or devalues more meaningful aspects of a healthy relationship, such as trust, independence, [and] communication.”
Another face of toxic monogamy is what’s best described as one or more people in a relationship having ownership mentally, i.e., treating someone as an object whose sexuality can be stolen by or for someone else.
Technology is simple; people are complex
Relationships are and will probably always be extremely convoluted, so it’s difficult, if not impossible, to say that this or that will solve this or that issue.
However inventions such as the ZAWAWORKS smart bra could be a fantastic new BDSM toy, where role-playing as owner and owner is upfront, negotiated, and always consensual.
Still, a large number of people assumed ZAWAWORKS’s creation was authentic, and were ready to pay their hard-earned dollars to own one seems troubling, particularly because their desires were less rooted in domination and submission games and more towards putting their partner’s sexuality under lock and key.
Why not do the opposite, such as pointing people with ZAWAWORKS’s outrageous creativity at inventing sexually liberating, not physically confining, gadgetry?
Perhaps a combination of micro-cameras and VR, like a kinky version of the Apple Vision Pro, that’d enable the wearer to share their sexuality with others without needing to be physically present.
Don’t forget the plethora of wireless, BlueTooth-capable super-smart sextoys already available, where people can connect with anyone, anywhere in the world anonymously—again without ever having to leave the comfort or security of their homes.
Even better, maybe we’ll someday evolve to where emotionally harmful sexual concepts like cheating are as extinct as virginity should be.
Image Sources: ZAWAWORKS, Depositphotos
