FT Alphaville and Vagina Monologues

Alphaville has a post on femtech (who knew?) and other tech:

Can we please stop adding “tech” to stuff?

Earlier this week, Alphaville was offered an exclusive on a “femtech” story. The pitch was about a company called OHNE, an “organic tampon and femtech subscription start-up”, that had just raised some money in a seed round.

We’re always interested in new technology — no really — so we headed on over to OHNE’s website to see what kind of innovation was going on in the world of women.
We were greeted with a great tagline:

You’re fantastic. Period.

We’re getting on with saving your vagina. You get OHNE with being a babe.

And then some less great but still OK tagines, like:

We’re women OHNE a mission to give the world a shake, one tampon at a time.

And some great images, too....

....MUCH MORE, including martech and lawtech.

Apparently ladyparts are all the rage, over at the Guardian (July 26) we have

Medievalists excited at parchment fragment of 'vagina monologue'
Find in Austrian abbey dates poem to 200 years earlier than previously thought

It has been called the earliest form of the Vagina Monologues – an argument in verse between a woman and her vulva, originating in the Middle Ages.

Now a fragment of the text, about who gives more pleasure to men, dates the poem to 200 years earlier than previously thought.

Medievalists are thrilled by the find, in the archive of an Austrian monastery, which rewrites the history of sexuality in medieval literature. Fragments from 60 lines of The Rose Thorn (Der Rosendorn) were discovered on a thin strip of parchment in the library of the baroque Melk Abbey on the banks of the Danube in Austria’s Wachau Valley.

The abbey find means that the poem can now be dated to about 1300. Until the parchment discovery it was believed that Der Rosendorn had not been composed until the end of the Middle Ages, about two centuries later. Two existing versions of the poem, known as the Dresden Codex and the Karlsruhe Codex, are a constant fascination for medievalists who consider it one of the first ever erotic poems.

In the poem, a virgin woman (junkfrouwe) argues in a free-flowing, often witty dialogue, with her speaking vulva (fud) about which of them is held in the higher regard by men....MORE

I had a couple M.D. aunts of the OB/GYN variety who thought there was nothing funnier than the old:

"Madame, at your cervix"
"Dilated to meet you"

joke.
Journalists getting pitched va-jay-jay ideas, excited medievalists garrulous gynos,
Do what you love and the money will follow.