In a season that inspires earnest letters about toys, one notable batch is being sent not by kids to Santa's workshop, but by parents to the executive suites of real-world toy makers. The message: ...

Earlier this month, thousands of vendors exhibited at the tech trade show CES. But notably absent was the sex toy startup Lora DiCarlo, whose invitation to exhibit at the show was rescinded after CES ...

Professor Maria Tam was browsing recently in a Lego shop in Sha Tin, Hong Kong, when a salesperson approached and asked whether she was looking to buy something for a boy or a girl. “I was going ‘well ...

If you paid extra close attention to the commercials during Sunday's Super Bowl, you'll have seen a genuinely history-making 30 second spot amid the annual cavalcade of supermodel breasts and ...

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If a toy is moving in an ad, it better move once a child gets a hold of it. That’s the latest word from the Children’s Advertising Review Unit of the Council of Better Business Bureaus, Inc., which ...

A Swedish toy maker called Top Toy has just the thing to help quell little Riley’s displeasure at the fact that more insidious toy makers all across America are making sure that only boys play with ...

Sexism is all around us, from subway ads to Facebook. Polly Rodriguez, CEO of the sex toy company Unbound, and Alexandra Fine, CEO of the sex toy company Dame Products, want to stop that, focusing ...