Playing with a powered dildo or some anal beads, alone or with your usual bed partner, probably won’t land you in too much trouble. The worse that might happen is you or your lover running out of lube (or energy), or maybe plucking some other toy off the nightstand to add some variety into your games. But really, if you have everything sufficiently powered and everybody’s consenting, a bedscapade with a sex toy is your oyster.

It’s when we engage an App, Bluetooth, or some other cloud-based connection with our modern sex toy that the trouble can start.

In the just published Securing Sextech: The Importance of Keeping Your Private Life—Private published on the FutureofSex.net website, ToyChats.com’s own Editorial Director, Adrian Gonzalez, gives forth some very specific advice about how to stay safe while connecting.

Adrian’s Caution & Advice

In the article, Adrian firmly and firstly warns that “sex toy apps aren’t immune to data breaches,” adding that anyone hooking up to get off needs to “…make sure you’re on a private network when you’re using a sex toy app. You’re putting yourself and any virtual partners at risk if you’re using somebody else’s WiFi or a public network.”

Simple and logical advice, but it’s amazing how many people feel a false sense of security in their bedrooms. But anytime we connect to the worldwide net, via a tablet, laptop, or phone, for whatever reason, we invite a whole bunch of possibilities into our wacky little world…and that includes sophisticated hackers looking to steal private information.

Or worse.

And God knows, none of us are so very vigilant about net security when all we are thinking about is…

Manufacturers Trying Their Best

In the above article, JP Wilhelmse, CEO of Ohdoki (they created The Handy stroker and Oh! Vibrator) also reveals how his company works hard to secure customer safety. Ohdoki gives buyers the option to set up a personal account via their portal and also uses a unique end-to-end encryption system.

“Safety and privacy are top priorities,” Wilhelmse says.

Given how many choices are available to the sex toy buyer, making consumers feel safe and secure, as much during their purchasing as well as with further uses of the toy they buy, should be the undisputed building block of customer retention and loyalty.

And for most companies it surely is.

They just have to stay one step ahead of the new technologies.

All Together Now

As Adrian offers at the tail end of the FOS piece, as sex toy buyers need remain acutely aware of security risks, their vigilance works in perfect sync with highly respected sex toy sellers remaining committed to customer safety. It’s only together that both parties can use technology to constantly update safety measures, a technology that in the wrong hands, is used to thwart these measures.

It’s truly a well-reasoned, transparent communication between manufacturers and purchasers—no matter what the product is, where, why, and how it’s used—that provides a united front.