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A New Slate of Apps Aims to Disrupt the Lucrative Erotica Market

Can erotica apps stay weird and attract major investments?

Lux Alptraum
OneZero
Published in
4 min readAug 27, 2019

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FFor as long as humans have been writing, we’ve written erotica — stories, poems, and novels intended to titillate and arouse each other. And over the course of those millennia, the format of these erotic works has remained…

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Lux Alptraum
OneZero

OneZero columnist, Peabody-nominated producer, and the author of Faking It: The Lies Women Tell About Sex — And the Truths They Reveal. http://luxalptraum.com