What makes Smugsy so self-satisfied
Early in her business career Smugsy observed what is the epitome of sex discrimination.
Women, she noticed, do not have equal opportunity to cash in on the business of sex.
It was one particularly egregious case of a double standard that was impetus to Smugsy’s first blockbuster product line, as a matter of fact, “the Woody,” a gender-amenable sex robot made from wood composites and flexible miniaturized tubes filled with sand and fish oil.
Smugsy got the idea of the Woody while reading corporate literature about an exciting private/public partnership project in Oregon that launched the Osé, a sleek new product designed for women modestly described as “the world’s first hands-free device for the holy grail of orgasms.”
The Osé was a robotic wonder the likes of which Smugsy had never seen before and she inhaled the research that sprung from the skills of the team of mostly girly-nerds who made it — and the story of Lora DiCarlo, the company that founded the Osé, fascinated Smugsy.
“Our almost entirely female team of engineers is developing new micro-robotic technology that mimics all of the sensations of a human mouth, tongue, and fingers, for an experience that feels just like a real partner. The product even adjusts to each body's unique physiology for a personal fit that hits all the right spots, leaving the hands free for better uses,” the Lora DiCarlo website said.
Miniaturized robotics?
Biomimicry — the translation of organic human motions into mathematical models for automation — and artificial intelligence?
Smugsy was smitten. And when she heard about the blatant sex-discrimination against the Osé at a big national trade show — Smugsy had the vision for her own Ose-like device specifically targeted at New Englanders and voila!
The Woody was born.
You see what happened was the Osé personal massager had been selected as a Consumer Electronics Show Innovation Awards Honoree in the Robotics and Drone product category — but then suddenly the Consumer Trade Association took the Osé’s award back, citing a random contract clause giving it power to kibosh things deemed “immoral, obscene, indecent, profane or not in keeping with the CTA’s image.”
Immoral? Obscene?
What about the sex robot designed for men that was allowed at the Consumer Electronics Show, Smugsy wondered,
Or the virtual reality porn, or the fancy new remote that allows partners to control one another’s vibrators from afar?
Why were these robots allowed to remain as celebrated features of the same trade show?
After major protests and international media attention and pressure, the CTA relented and returned the best in robotics and drones product category award back to its rightful recipient, the Osé, but still the question remained: why only boring-old binary boy/girl choices when it comes to robotics and drones?
And then Smugsy had an epiphany about the Woody, a plant-based, carbon-neutral personal massager made locally for everyone’s use and pleasure, regardless of gender.
And the rest is history. Love thy body. Love thyself, as they say.
The Woody by Smugsy, it turns out was a winning combination of X and Y factors and perfectly timed to capitalize on today’s zeitgeist of gender fluidity and all things locally sourced. Plus, because there’s plenty of wood, sand and fish oil — the secret combination of which makes the Woody “the Woody” — it’s a business ripe for the Commodities Market.
Why invest in We Work when you can get in on the Woody?
After the IPO, Smugsy took home a boatload of cash, various investment vehicles, and her stock portfolio, and handed over the reins of the day-to-day manufacturing of the Woody.
She focused on family and her new Smugsy Smart and Sassy line.
And she feels good about it..