Technology
Company defends the algorithm that spots female orgasms
After mockery of the social media, a business that said it developed an algorithm to recognise orgasms of women. Relida Limited, based in Cyprus said their algorithm can validate 86 percent of female orgasms.
Slides were posted on Twitter from a presentation and tweeted several thousand times. The company said it wanted to assist developers to check sex technology products. Stu Nugent, the brand manager at the sex toy label Lelo shared the presentation on Twitter after he got the pitch.
The BBC's slides show that there is no reliable way for a woman to know if she has an orgasm.
The statistics list women with false climaxes. Relida said his idea was still emerging and the publication of the presentation was not planned.
The algorithm is based on previous investigations into heart rate changes. A heart rate can be determined to have an orgasm, because the pattern is calculated when the heart climaxes, she told the BBC in an email.
The algorithm was developed by a woman who "seeks for the benefit of other women. It was not done. We would never have been able to directly market this algorithm to women or men.
It is still a topic that is too fragile and knowledge that could place more pressure on women. Mr. Nugent's tweet was described as 'unethical.'
Mr Nugent told him he was disappointed when he was given the LinkedIn slides. To be frank, we already have a very stable and efficient program to make our designs satisfied and ask the people who use them, he said. We have to be frank.
'Anyway, the orgasm is not exactly the right indicator of a sex toy's pleasure.' Relida said his all science product.
Mr. Nugent said, We never solved a problem. It is a risky idea to detect an orgasm against a person who actually has (or does not have) a word, he said.
