These sex toys saved my life.

tw: disability / chronic illness

Hey there, friend! Have I ever told you the off-the-wall story of how Cute Little Fuckers came to be? I mean before the Kickstarter campaign and everything else that came after?

CLF’s origin story actually began when everything else in my life fell apart…

It goes like this: In 2018, I began experiencing the symptoms of an intense neurological disease. At the time, I was doing community development work during the day and engaging in queer, sex-positive activism at night. But then I began to experience pain and numbness in my arms, which spread into my feet, my legs, and even my face. From there, a whole slew of ever more complicated health issues piled on.

My body was slowly and systematically shutting down and I had no explanation for it. 

I was scared that I was dying.

Up until that point, I had been on a particular career path but, suddenly, I was physically unable to do my job. 

My plans for my future fell apart. 

As lost as I felt, when I asked myself what came next, I knew I wanted to build something that would allow me to continue living my values. As a queer, nonbinary, and disabled person, I wanted to serve my community however I could.

I got stuck on the idea of queer sex toys. Toys that looked like adorable monsters. Toys that were more personal, approachable, and inclusive than anything else out there. Toys that would make it as easy and as fun as possible for all folks to feel the pleasure and joy that was possible in their bodies.

How bonkers is it that if not for this massive life upheaval, these adorable monsters might never have existed??

I have no clue what my life would like like today had Cute Little Fuckers not resonated with people in such a big way.

I still struggle with chronic health issues. It’s frustrating and it’s disruptive and it’s so incredibly exhausting.

But I feel so grateful to have Cute Little Fuckers—and the CLF community—in my life. I love that y’all make it possible for me to continue living my values in the most fun way ever.

Thanks for being so rad. 😘

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