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Introducing Konfettie: The Etsy of Body-Safe Sex Toys

By M. Christian
October 6, 2022
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This curated sex toy marketplace strives to keep its customers healthy.

Konfettie's logo.

Konfettie describes itself as an e-commerce platform for sexuality-focused independent artists and manufacturers. 

But with a difference: It tries to ensure everything sold is as body safe as possible.

“Truth is that there are no standards to guide sex toy manufacturers in maximizing safety and minimizing risks,” Founder and CEO Emilie Wiersma said in a company press release.

“Konfettie offers resistance.”

What’s available on Konfettie

Konfettie limits sex toys to medical-grade silicone, ABS plastic, stainless steel, aluminum, or borosilicate glass.

Furthering its promotion of non-toxicity, Konfettie’s product pages have a materials section where sellers can provide details on the composition of their products.

Akifu Toys, Bad Wolf, Dking, and Blackfang Labs are some of Konfettie’s retailers. Most are known for their playful—if not completely outlandish—designs, such as SuendwarenKonditorei’s pickle-shaped butt plug and banana-styled dildos.

Open to more than sex toys, the site also features the work of sexuality-inspired artists, various lingerie items, an assortment of BDSM gear, and a range of couple’s games. All of which are exempt from Konfettie’s otherwise strict body-safe policy.

A screenshot from the front page of the Konfettie website. You can see the main menu plus a cut-off preview of some of the sellers. At the top it says "Celebrate your curiosity".

But what is considered body safe?

Konfettie hasn’t been live for very long, so it’s understandable why the site appears to be noticeably short on sellers. Which, in all likelihood, will improve as word about it starts to spread.

The same we hope for Konfettie’s rough edges. 

Right now, the site’s English is distractingly awkward. More than a few of its seller’s pages also have the same issue. The confusing language seems to interfere with its goal of fully informing its customers.

Then there’s a possible issue with what Konfettie considers body-safe. For example, in addition to stainless steel, medical grade silicone, etc., the site also lists ceramic and wood as acceptable materials. 

Theoretically, each can be safe. But the reality is each needs an extremely high level of craftsmanship to avoid injury or infection. 

There’s also the question of cleaning wooden or ceramic toys. For example, no matter how finished it is, wood cannot be sterilized. Not to mention the potential toxicity of whatever glazes or varnishes were used in making them.

It’d be in Konfettie and its customer’s best interests for it to require sellers to be extra-detailed regarding wooden or ceramic toys. This should also be coupled with far more detailed information on what it takes to make truly body-safe wooden and ceramic sex toys.

Great intentions and a good start

Konfettie's founder and CEO Emilie Wiersma. She is smiling with light skin, a grey t-shirt and a longer blonde bob.
Konfettie’s founder and CEO Emilie Wiersma

The highest compliment for Konfettie is that its heart is in the right place. 

Wiersma said, “Our mission is to be earth’s most open-minded and body-safe marketplace.”

Everyone should pay more attention to what our sex toys are composed of—and call out companies or individuals for playing fast and loose with our health.

That’s why Konfettie should, and will, improve.

As Wiersma also said: “I’m taking full responsibility. After all, only body-safe toy stories have happy endings.”

Image sources: Konfettie

M. Christian

M.Christian (they/them) loves nothing better than exploring the intersections of sex and technology—and speculating on the future of both. A highly regarded erotica writer they have six novels,12 collections, 100+ short stories, and 25 anthologies as an editor to their name. Their non-fiction regularly appears in many sites, but they're most proud of being a regular contributor to Future of Sex.

Of their erotic fiction, Tristan Taormino said that “M.Christian is a literary stylist of the highest caliber: smart, funny, frightening, sexy—there's nothing [they] can't write about… and brilliantly.”

Reflecting their unique ability to sympathetically and convincingly write for a range of genders and sexual orientations, their stories have appeared in multiple editions of Best American Erotica, Best Gay Erotica, Best Lesbian Erotica, The Mammoth Books of Erotica, and others. Their collection of gay erotic fiction, Dirty Words, was a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award.

While a majority of their stories have been collected into books like Dirty Words, their fondness for combining sex and science fiction is clearly evident in collections that include Rude Mechanicals, Technorotica, Better Than The Real Thing, Skin Effect Effect, Bachelor Machine, and Hard Drive: The Best Sci-Fi Erotica of M.Christian.

As a novelist, M.Christian’s versatility is on full display with Running Dry, The Very Bloody Marys, Brushes, Painted Doll; and the somewhat controversial queer BDSM/horror/thrillers Finger's Breadth, and Me2.

M.Christian has worked on the industry’s production side as an Associate Publisher for Renaissance E Books and as a Publisher for Digital Parchment Services. The latter dedicated to celebrating the works of science-fiction legends such as William Rotsler, Jerome Bixby, Jody Scott, Arthur Byron Cover, Ernest Hogan, and James Van Hise.

Covering topics like BDSM safety, sexual education, senior sexuality concerns, queer and gender issues, plus reviewing a variety of sex tech products, M.Christian’s non-fiction has appeared on sites like Kinkly, Tickle.Life, Sexpert, Queer Majority, Sex for Every Body, and—of course—their ongoing work for Future of Sex.

If there’s anything M.Christian enjoys more than writing, it’s teaching. A featured presenter, sometimes with their friend Ralph Greco Jr, at national sex and BDSM events, they have lectured on kink play (with an emphasis on safety), polyamory, boosting sexual creativity, and erotica writing--for beginners or those wanting to go pro.

M.Christian is a cohost on two popular sex-education podcasts: Love’s Outer Limits with Dr. Amy Marsh and Licking Non-Vanilla with Ralph Greco, Jr.
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