Sex Tech, Toys and Accessibility with Jules Margo

Doing It! with Hannah Witton

Global Media & Entertainment

Health & Fitness, Relationships, Sexuality, Society & Culture

4.8 • 651 Ratings

🗓️ 28 October 2020

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, Hannah is joined by Jules Margo, who is the co-founder and COO of Hot Octopuss, a sex toy company that champions inclusivity and accessibility in their products and marketing. Jules discusses sex toy technology and development, and some of the exciting things happening in the sex toy industry. She and Hannah talk about the intersection of disability and sexuality as well as Hot Octopuss’s focus on accessibility in their sex toys. Finally, Hannah and Jules discuss how COVID-19 has affected sex toy sales, long distance relationships, and people getting into solo kink, and answer some of your questions from Instagram about toy recommendations, how to clean your sex toys, and whether more expensive sex toys are really worth it.

✨MORE ABOUT JULES MARGO AND HOT OCTOPUSS✨
Julia Margo co-founded the premium British company Hot Octopuss in 2011 with her good friend, Adam Lewis. As Chief Operating Officer, Julia directs Hot Octopuss’s marketing department and leads its public relations team. Her expertise stems from roles in top UK organisations including the think tank Demos, the consumer group Which? and the medical research charity Genesis Research Trust. She is also a published author on social change, wellbeing and consumer issues. Jules lives in London with her 3 children.

- Personal Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jules.margo/
- Personal Twitter: https://twitter.com/jules_margo
- Hot Octopuss: https://www.hotoctopuss.com/
- Hot Octopuss Twitter: https://twitter.com/HotOctopuss

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0:00.0	It's the summer of loving long days, warm nights and all things that sizzle.
0:05.4	Like M&S, best ever cherry wood smoked pork shoulder poshawks.
0:10.2	100% British beef smashed burgers.
0:13.4	And hot and smoky and doya king prawn skewers.
0:17.3	Stop it, Eminess.
0:18.8	You'll have to pry me away from the barbecue with a spatula.
0:22.7	This is not just food.
0:24.3	This is summer-loving M&S food.
0:26.8	Subject to availability, TisNC Apply.
0:30.0	Adam showed me a letter that we'd had from a customer who was a 24-year-old paraplegic.
0:41.9	He'd been injured when he was, I think, 18 or 19. He had not been able to ejaculate voluntarily since he'd had his accident and he hadn't been able to masturbate.
0:48.4	And he'd been able to achieve an orgasm with pulse. And he said that that experience gave him back a sense of joy and hope and self-esteem in his life.
0:59.7	What he thought was lost to him after his accident.
1:05.4	Welcome to Doing It with me, Hannah Witten, where we talk all things sex relationships dating and our bodies
1:13.2	hi and welcome back to doing it it's no secret that I am very fond of sex toys in terms of what
1:24.9	they do for me as an individual sexual person in terms of what they do for me as an individual sexual person, in terms of exploration,
1:31.1	pleasure and different sensations.
1:33.4	But I am also fascinated by the sex tech industry in general.
1:38.9	In this episode, I got to speak with Jules Margo, who is the co-founder and COO of Hot Octopus, a sex toy company
1:46.8	that champions inclusivity and accessibility when it comes to their products and marketing.
1:53.9	We had a good nerd out about sex toy development and the technology that goes into making
2:00.2	sex toys and all of the new and
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