Sex Tech News: Chaturbate Approves Video Game Streaming, Yareel BDSM Poses & Patreon Rules

Jenna Owsianik
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Top headlines in the adult and sex tech industries this past week.

Yareel bdsm update

“Live sex cam site Chaturbate [NSFW] recently announced that its streaming platform will now support certain pre-approved video games, and is calling on developers to give their permission to add more to that growing list…

“Prior to the update, Chaturbate users who included video game content on their streams would receive stern warnings from the platform about violating third-party content rules, likely because Chaturbate itself didn’t want to invoke the ire of video game companies up in arms about their content being shown alongside streamer nudity and other NSFW activities. The pre-approved list gets around that.”(via Ethan Gach/Kotaku)

“Patreon released on Sunday an official ‘Creator Policy Engagement Update’ for its base of adult content creators.

“’We’ve planned our September 23 policy livestream to prioritize questions about Patreon’s adult/18+ policy because we received dozens of questions from adult/18+ creators through this engagement program,’ the company announced through their in-house blog. ‘The topic is also particularly timely because payment processing networks like Mastercard have recently established procedures that affect platforms like ours which host adult/18+ content.’” (via Gustavo Turner/XBIZ)

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Jenna Owsianik is a Canadian journalist and sex tech expert. From 2014 to 2022 she was Editor-in-Chief of FutureofSex.net, the world’s leading publication on how technology is changing human sexuality, today and tomorrow. Her expertise covers state-of-the-art sex technologies and the major fields driving innovations in intimacy: robotics, virtual reality, remote sex (teledildonics), immersive adult entertainment, human augmentation, virtual sex, and sexual health. A trained journalist with a Masters of Journalism from The University of British Columbia, Jenna’s reporting has appeared on Futurism.com, Al Jazeera English, CTV British Columbia online, CBS Sunday Morning, CBS 60 Minutes, Global News, and CKNW Radio in Canada and the United States. As a sex tech industry consultant, she is especially passionate about helping companies deliver accessible services and products to people with disabilities and other underserved communities. Jenna also runs the sites SexforEveryBody.com, a sex-positive, body-positive online magazine that promotes inclusive sex education; and DisabledSexGuide.com, an adult resource on sex, disability, and erotica. In 2013, Jenna won two Canadian Online Publishing Awards for her work on The Pain Project, a multimedia site on global access to palliative care. She won second place at the 2011 Awards for Excellence in Health Care Journalism’s Public Health category for her participation in the documentary Freedom From Pain. Jenna has an Honors BA in Women’s Studies and Feminist Research as well as a French minor from The University of Western Ontario. She spent a year studying at L’Université Lumière Lyon 2 in Lyon, France.