Measuring Your Orgasms and Being a Woman Engineer In Sex Tech with Anna Lee

Doing It! with Hannah Witton

Global Media & Entertainment

Health & Fitness, Relationships, Sexuality, Society & Culture

4.8 • 651 Ratings

🗓️ 16 March 2022

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, Hannah is joined by Anna Lee (aka Anna the Average), who is the co-founder and head of engineering at Lioness, the women-led sexual health startup. Anna discusses her journey as a Korean American women in the sex tech world, how she overcame the conservatism of her family to found her own sex tech company, and how working in sex tech helped her reclaim ownership of her own body after trauma. She and Hannah talk about why Anna is feeling positive that the landscape of the sex tech industry is becoming more diverse despite having to navigate a lot of stereotypes and uncomfortable situations. Finally, Anna shares more about her motivation behind creating the Lioness, why she believes being able to measure your orgasms allows people to better understand how their bodies work, and gives advice on introducing using toys in partnered sex as well how to get into the sex tech industry!

CW: mention of sexual assault

✨ MORE ABOUT ANNA LEE ✨
Anna Lee is a technical co-founder of Lioness, the women-led sexual health startup that built the world’s first and only smart vibrator that improves understanding of sexual pleasure and body through biofeedback data. She is a Forbes 30 Under 30 alum and has been covered in numerous publications like Fast Company, Glamour, and Popular Science, as well as Paper Magazine’s Asian Women Creators You Need to Know and Buzzfeed’s 14 Sex Tech Founders Who Are Changing The Way The World Thinks About Sex. Anna is a prominent creator on TikTok with nearly 400,000 followers.

Anna was previously a mechanical engineer at Amazon, launching the Amazon Dash Button’s original concept and the Kindle Voyage Page Press Technology. She has spoken at top universities like UC Berkeley and Chalmers University, SXSW, and CYFY India. Lioness was featured at CES 2020, a finalist at Last Gadget Standing, Engadget Best of CES 2020, and Refinery29 Best of CES SexTech. She is a big advocate in Lioness’ mission to expand understanding and research in sexual health, and destigmatize female sexuality.

Lioness: https://lioness.io/
Instagram: https://instagram.com/annaisaverage
TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@annatheaverage

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0:00.0	Hi everyone, welcome back to Doing It, the Sex and Relationships podcast where sex has never been so nerdy.
0:12.8	With me, your host, Hannah Witten.
0:15.0	I am super excited to tell you about my guest this week.
0:19.0	Anna Lee, aka Anna The Average, is the co-founder and head
0:23.0	of engineering at Lioness, the women-led sexual health startup that built the world's first
0:28.7	and only smart vibrator that can measure your orgasms and improves understanding of sexual pleasure
0:35.3	and your body through biofeedback data.
0:38.3	I think that's maybe the first time I've ever said biofeedback data.
0:43.7	Anna is a Forbes 30 under 30 alumni and has been covered in numerous publications like
0:49.9	Fast Company, Glamour and Popular Science.
0:53.1	She was featured in paper magazines Asian Women Creators You Need to Know
0:57.4	and BuzzFeeds 14 Sex Tech founders who are changing the way the world thinks about sex.
1:04.7	Anna uses her TikTok alongside LymeS to expand understanding and research in sexual health and destigmatized sexuality of people
1:14.0	with vulvers. I was so excited to get Anna on the podcast because as a total sex nerd myself,
1:20.6	I wanted to hear all about how Anna is using data and innovation to help people connect with
1:26.2	their bodies and pleasure. And oh boy, our chat
1:29.6	did not disappoint. We spoke all about Anna's own journey as a Korean-American woman into the
1:35.3	tech world, overcoming the conservatism of her family towards sex to go on to found her own
1:41.7	sex tech company. I loved hearing about how working in sex tech actually
1:47.0	helped Anna reclaim ownership of her body after the impact of aalia trauma and how she wants
1:53.3	to revolutionize the data we have on sex and orgasms for people with vaginas. It was really
2:00.0	interesting hearing more about Anna's motivation behind creating the lioness
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