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Lovense Survey Uncovers the Hidden Stigma Holding Men Back from Prostate Pleasure

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LOS ANGELES, June 10, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Prostate pleasure may be one of the few forms of pleasure men can uniquely experience. But why do so many still hesitate to try it — or feel afraid to? A new survey begins to explain why.

This May, a large-scale Lovense survey asked men what stands between them and prostate pleasure — and revealed just how common that fear really is. The answer was astonishing: psychological barriers outweigh physical ones by more than two to one. Forty-two percent named a psychological factor as their single biggest obstacle. Only twenty percent pointed to something physical.

Reference: Lovense Reveals Results of ‘Prostate Pleasure’ Survey

The Body Was Never the Hard Part

Only one in five men named pain or hygiene as their primary concern about prostate pleasure — real worries, but ones that a well-designed prostate massager can resolve entirely. Lovense’s Edge 2 addresses these pain points directly: this prostate massager is hands-free and wearable, with an adjustable neck that adapts to individual anatomy rather than demanding the user adapt to it.

The Conversation Most men Have no Courage to Begin

What proves far harder to solve is the psychological barrier. The first is communication with a partner. Eighteen percent of men named partner communication as the single largest barrier in the survey — bigger than pain, bigger than not knowing where to start. Even among men who already use prostate toys regularly, 26% said the partner conversation was the hardest thing they ever had to overcome.

The survey data supports this pattern: among respondents who had not yet discussed prostate play with a partner, a significant portion indicated that the fear of judgment or misunderstanding was their primary reason for staying silent. Many appeared to treat secrecy as the safer path — even when it created distance in the relationship.

Yet the survey also revealed a more hopeful pattern. Among men who had eventually shared their interest with a partner, the majority reported a neutral or positive response. Rather than avoidance, choosing to bring a partner in often turns out to be a solution that serves both sides.

Not everyone has the courage or the luck to receive that kind of acceptance from a partner. In those cases, a tool designed for shared interaction becomes especially important. Lovense’s Edge 2 can connect to a partner’s phone through the Remote app, letting them take control in real time — turning a concealed solo act into something shared. The device doesn’t replace the conversation. But it offers an entry point for starting the experience together.

The External Labels Usually Build Internal Barriers

Beyond the fear tied to a partner’s reaction, another fear runs deeper. One in four respondents worried others would assume they were gay or bisexual. Nearly a third feared others would see them differently.

The survey responses painted a consistent picture: many men internalized the belief that prostate pleasure conflicted with their sexual identity. Years of social conditioning appeared to shape this view more than any personal experience. Respondents frequently cited cultural environment and peer attitudes as the origin of their hesitation — not logic, not anatomy, but the voice of other people’s assumptions.

Yet when asked what ultimately helped them move past this barrier, the most common answer among experienced users was simple: prioritizing personal experience over external perception. Those who had tried prostate play overwhelmingly reported that  once they experience the pleasure firsthand, much of the fear simply disappears.

And when the goal is to set aside the world’s judgments and focus entirely on one’s own sensations, immersion matters. Edge 2 can sync to different types of entertainment content such as games, videos, or music, allowing men to lose themselves in a fantasy world while exploring their own pleasure — addressing the psychological need as much as the physical one.

Even so, seventy-two percent of men in the survey said stigma never actually stopped them from wanting to try. The desire was always there. What held them back was never the body — it was other people’s judgment, and their own lack of courage to take the first step.

“We believe every product we create exists to help people experience something different,” said Dan Liu, CEO of Lovense. “But sometimes, simply choosing to try is an act of courage in itself.”

For men lingering at the threshold of prostate pleasure, sometimes all it takes is a small push from the outside. That push can be technology.

 

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Spacelift Extends Infrastructure Orchestration Beyond Deployment to Day 2 Operations, Meeting the Challenges of AI-Generated Code Velocity

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Spacelift Flows allows platform teams to build automations with an AI-assisted visual canvas or code to bring policy and audit controls to infrastructure operations, so platform teams can move at the pace the business requires.

REDWOOD CITY, Calif., Oct. 29, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Spacelift, the infrastructure orchestration company, today announced Spacelift Flows, extending its platform beyond infrastructure deployment to day 2 operations, where platform teams spend the majority of their time running, maintaining and troubleshooting infrastructure already in production.

AI-assisted development is increasing the volume and velocity of infrastructure reaching production, but automation and governance have historically stopped short of this operational phase. Spacelift, known for bringing automation and governance to infrastructure as code (IaC) and GitOps deployment, now applies its automation, policy enforcement and audit control expertise to day 2 operations, helping platform engineers keep pace with AI-generated code without becoming the bottleneck.

Spacelift Flows carries automation past provisioning into operations

Infrastructure teams have spent the past decade automating provisioning. However, the operations that occur after a deployment have remained manual and ad hoc. Making matters worse, platform engineers have had no shared view of what automations are running and no record of execution when something fails. That changes with Spacelift Flows. It extends Spacelift’s automation and governance, as well as its AI-powered Spacelift Intelligence layer, to day 2 operations.

“Platform teams are absorbing more infrastructure requests than ever as AI accelerates how quickly their developers write code,” said Pawel Hytry, CEO of Spacelift. “Our customers already manage their IaC pipelines with Spacelift, and Flows extends that same automation, visibility and governance to everything that happens after. When the work after deployment is governed and automated, features ship faster, fewer things break, and platform engineers spend their days on what’s next instead of firefighting.”

The Spacelift infrastructure orchestration platform

The Spacelift platform now manages the full infrastructure lifecycle on a single control plane, with one governance layer and one AI layer spanning deployment and operations. The IaC and GitOps deployment component is now called Spacelift Deploy, and the new operations component is called Spacelift Flows. Spanning both components is Spacelift Intelligence, an intelligence layer that helps understand, design, govern and even deploy infrastructure with natural language.

Spacelift now gives platform teams a single place to see every infrastructure automation running in their organization, with a step-by-step execution trail, real-time status and the ability to replay a workflow either in whole or in parts.

Governance and audit that don’t stop at provisioning

Every control that applies to infrastructure deployed with Spacelift now also applies to what happens after it. Policy, role-based access control and audit history work the same way on a provisioning run and on an operational workflow. Deployment events can trigger operational workflows and vice versa.

Clear ownership for agentic infrastructure

Platform teams increasingly want agentic workflows, where an agent, not a person, makes the change. Spacelift Flows gives agents a governed path into infrastructure. Teams can expose internal databases, monitoring systems and operational APIs as MCP servers that agents can call, with private network access and approval gates. Each agent authenticates as itself and appears in the audit trail as its own user, rather than borrowing an engineer’s credentials or using a shared key. Every action is attributable to the agent that took it. The workflows themselves execute deterministically, running the same way every time.

The platform team at Discovery Education has deployed Spacelift Flows and is realizing the various benefits of agentic workflows after infrastructure deployment. Toby Norman, partner success manager, said “I hadn’t built an MCP server for my infrastructure before. It went very smoothly with Spacelift Flows. In a few hours I had several tools running and a proof of concept that helps developers debug their services on our platform.” Parker Cameron, senior manager, cloud engineering, said “With Flows, we had something working in a few hours, instead of four weeks later and still struggling with auth, which is usually the pattern.”

More information can be found on the Flows landing page and on the Spacelift blog. A webinar featuring a demo will be held on November 5th — register here.

FAQ

Does anything change for existing Spacelift customers?
No. The product previously known as Spacelift is now called Spacelift Deploy. Functionality, contracts and access are unchanged, and existing customers can use Spacelift Flows immediately.

What does Spacelift Flows cost?
Spacelift Flows is available as part of the Spacelift platform for no additional cost through a promotional period that runs through the end of the year. Commercial pricing and packaging will be announced in Q1 2027.

What does Spacelift Flows integrate with?
Spacelift Flows includes out-of-the-box integrations for AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, Datadog, PagerDuty, ServiceNow, Jira and Slack. There is a library of more than 40 pre-built templates for tasks including incident enrichment, drift alerts, environment vending and certificate expiry monitoring. Teams can easily build custom flows for internal services and APIs. For AI use cases, Spacelift Flows can act as an MCP gateway, giving agents governed access to internal systems, and can work with whichever AI model a team selects.

Can Spacelift Flows automations be managed as code?
Automations built in Spacelift Flows, whether on the canvas or with the AI assistant, can also be defined as code through a Terraform provider published to the Terraform and OpenTofu registries.

About Spacelift
Spacelift, the infrastructure orchestration company, helps platform teams keep pace with AI-accelerated development by automating and governing IaC pipelines and Day 2 operations, in a single integrated platform.

The Spacelift platform orchestrates Terraform, OpenTofu, CloudFormation, Pulumi and Ansible in one governed workflow, and provides a visual canvas that lets teams build and run Day 2 automations. An intelligence layer adds AI-powered provisioning, workflow building and diagnostics, so teams deliver secure, scalable and compliant infrastructure at AI speed. Duolingo, Figma, Moody’s, Checkout.com, 1Password and Redfin all manage their infrastructure with Spacelift.

Spacelift is also a major contributor to the Platform Engineering community as a founder and major contributor to OpenTofu and as the founder of IaCConf, the leading vendor-neutral IaC conference. Learn more about Spacelift and how it can help you at Spacelift.io. Sign up for a demo, or test the platform yourself with a free trial.

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LaserAway, Nation’s Largest Aesthetic Dermatology Brand, Opens Its 238th Clinic

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LOCATED AT 3401 DALE ROAD, SUITE 655, MODESTO, CA, this clinic opening marks 20 years of uninterrupted growth for the founder-led, Los Angeles–based company.

LOS ANGELES, Oct. 29, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — LaserAway, the nation’s leader in aesthetic dermatology today announced the opening of its 238th location in Modesto, CA. The opening celebrates the company’s 20th Anniversary which takes place this year and reflects two decades of continuous growth without a single clinic closure, a rare achievement in retail and the medical aesthetics category.

Founded in 2006 by Dr. Roy Winston and brothers Scott, Brock, and Todd Heckmann, LaserAway has evolved from a single West Hollywood, CA clinic into the largest nationwide aesthetics and dermatology company in the country. All LaserAway locations are privately owned and operated with no franchises. LaserAway’s success was built on a simple but disruptive idea: that industry-leading, safe, and effective aesthetic dermatological treatments should be available for everyone.

“When we opened our first clinic on Sunset Boulevard, we knew there was a massive opportunity to make these treatments accessible to everyone—not just a privileged few,” said Scott Heckmann, co-founder and CEO of LaserAway. “From day one, our mission has been to combine medical precision with modern convenience, giving people safe, effective results in a setting that feels approachable and empowering.”

LaserAway currently operates in 36 states and all treatments are performed by licensed medical professionals (NPs, PAs, RNs). LaserAway’s Chief Medical Officer is Dr. Will Kirby. Dr. Kirby leads LaserAway’s Medical Board, which consists of a team of over 25 board-certified dermatologists.

The Modesto location, like all LaserAway locations, will provide a full range of non- and minimally-invasive aesthetic services, including laser hair removal, Botox®, dermal fillers, skin rejuvenation and body contouring treatments such as CoolSculpting® and Thermage®. It will also feature LaserAway Wellness Injections, administered by medical professionals to support safe, clinically monitored results.

For more information on the brand, please visit laseraway.com.

ABOUT LASERAWAY
LaserAway® is the nation’s leader in aesthetic dermatology, offering customized treatments tailored to patient needs with a team of more than 25 board-certified dermatologists and 700 nurses in its 238 locations across the country. It specializes in a full suite of non- and minimally-invasive aesthetic treatments, including laser hair removal, laser tattoo removal, laser skin rejuvenation, body contouring, skin tightening, injectables, and skincare products. LaserAway is committed to providing high-quality, results-driven skincare solutions in a modern and welcoming environment. For more information, visit the brand on Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, LinkedIn, or at www.laseraway.com.

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SETTLE LAUNCHES PUBLIC API AND MCP SERVER, OPENING ITS PROCURE-TO-PAY PLATFORM TO AI AGENTS

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CPG businesses can now put AI to work on their payables, connecting Settle’s purchasing, bill pay and working capital data with the rest of their tools

NEW YORK, Oct. 29, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Settle, the leading cash flow management and working capital platform for inventory-based businesses, today announced the launch of its public API and Model Context Protocol (MCP) server. Businesses can now connect Settle directly to their own software, data warehouses and AI assistants such as Claude. It is the first step toward agentic procure-to-pay, where AI handles the busywork across the systems a business runs on, from purchase order to payment.

Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG) brands run on a patchwork of tools: Shopify, an ERP, accounting software, inventory and 3PL systems, and spreadsheets in between. Settle’s API and MCP server bring Settle into that whole stack. Finance and operations teams, and the AI agents working for them, can tap into Settle’s payables data and tools alongside their other systems to reconcile faster, forecast cash, and answer questions like “what do we owe our suppliers next month?” in seconds instead of hours.

Early customers are already building with it, from custom cash flow dashboards to AI agents that help run day-to-day operations. Settle plans to keep expanding what agents can see and do across procurement, payables, and working capital.

“Every business we talk to is rebuilding how they work with AI, and the companies moving fastest want their tools to talk to each other,” said Alek Koenig, CEO and founder of Settle. “We built Settle’s API and MCP server so a brand’s AI can work alongside our platform and their other systems, not around them. This is the foundation for agentic procure-to-pay: software that keeps purchasing, payables, and cash flow moving on its own, with our team behind it.”

Developers and Settle customers can get started at settle.com/api or by contacting their Settle account team.

ABOUT SETTLE
Settle is a cash flow management and working capital platform purpose-built for product businesses. The company’s integrated suite, including procurement, bill pay, AP automation, and flexible working capital financing, gives brands the tools to manage their payables and access the capital they need to grow. With more than $8 billion in payments processed and total originations exceeding $4 billion, Settle has helped thousands of businesses across the United States unlock the capital they need to scale. Settle is backed by leading investors including Ribbit Capital, Kleiner Perkins, Caffeinated Capital, Stripes, Founders Fund, SciFi Ventures, Citi Ventures, and Activant Capital. Learn more at settle.com.

MEDIA CONTACT
Settle Communications
press@settle.com

 

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