Team Lioness: Meet Maasai female rangers who are up to the challenge in Kenya

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Packing her bags to go home for the first time in over four months, Maasai ranger Purity Lakara — who patrols lands in Kenya’s Amboseli National Park, known for its free-roaming elephants and views of Mount Kilimanjaro — is overjoyed to be seeing her family for the first time since the Covid-19 pandemic was declared.

“I missed eating together, playing and hanging around with my baby girl, fetching water for my mum — even helping my brothers herding cattle. I have missed everything that we usually do while I’m at home,” she says.

Lakara, 23, is one of eight women — the first in their families to secure employment — who make up Team Lioness, a unit within the Olugului Community Wildlife Rangers (OCWR).

The rangers patrol the Olugului/Olarashi Group Ranch (OOGR), a 580-square-mile horseshoe of community-owned land that almost encircles Amboseli National Park, a safari destination 134 miles southeast of Nairobi.

Children run to welcome Purity Amleset Lakara, a member of the all-female IFAW-supported Team Lioness on her arrival at her home village in Meshenani, Amboseli, in Kenya.

Children run to welcome Purity Amleset Lakara, a member of the all-female IFAW-supported Team Lioness on her arrival at her home village in Meshenani, Amboseli, in Kenya.

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When Kenya closed its regional and international borders and the tourism industry and livestock markets on which the community depends disappeared, OCWR canceled all leave and asked its rangers, including Team Lioness, to stay at their posts indefinitely to protect wildlife from desperate poachers. Now that the country is cautiously yet optimistically opening and safari visitors are returning, the rangers are finally able to return to their

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Lioness Vibrator Is Finalist for CES Very last Gadget Standing Award

The Lioness Vibrator Technology 2, a sex toy you can handle through a phone application, is a finalist for the Consumer Digital Show’s (CES)  ‘Last Gadget Standing’ award. 

The product permits consumers to track their orgasm patterns, keep track of classes, and see how outside components like tension, rest, and stimulants may affect sexual pleasure. 

Hosted by the Customer Technologies Affiliation (CTA) in Las Vegas, CES is a key annually tech conference focusing on consumer goods. ‘Last Gadget Standing’ awards are coveted honors that have formerly gone to hits like the Roomba and Palm Pilot. 

The vibrator’s nomination is stunning because of the CTA’s controversial choice final 12 months to strip a vibrator, the Osé individual massager, of a related CES award.  

Lioness was essentially barred from attending CES in 2017 for the reason that of the sexual character of its merchandise.

“We have been so energized and grateful about the information, especially because when we experienced introduced the primary Lioness again in 2017, CES denied us a booth when they observed out our function pertained to womxn-centric enjoyment. So a lot has altered in the last handful of yrs,” Liz Klinger, cofounder of Lioness, advised Insider in an e mail.

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(Left to Proper) Lioness cofounders Anna Lee and Liz Klinger with the Lioness Vibrator Era 2.

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The Lioness Technology 2 was designed right after analyzing details from about 30,000 orgasms 

Lioness was established in 2017 by Klinger and Anna Lee, an ex-Amazon engineer who was a short

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Sextech Company Lioness Launches COVID Study + Research Platform at CES

This report is not only the world’s largest physiological data set on sexual behaviors during the COVID-19 pandemic, it’s also the world’s biggest study done on real world, in-the-bedroom-where-sex-happens sex (rather than in the confines of a research laboratory) in general!

How has COVID-19 changed our sex lives?

COVID sex and its alleged sex toy boom is an ambiguous conclusion at best. While a number of stories in the media may lead you to believe that everyone is buying more sex toys and having more sex, we have evidence that those bedrooms are not actually that buzzy. Using Lioness Vibrator product usage as our guide, we’ve observed far more convincing evidence of a significant drop-off in masturbation frequency as the year wore on relative to 2019 for the same users.

We looked at anonymous aggregate physiological usage statistics from 1879 Lioness users primarily in the United States who were active in 2019 and 2020 and nearly 40,000 sessions recorded from January 1, 2019 through December 12, 2020. Specifically, there were 19,578 total sessions in 2019 and 19,481 total sessions in 2020*. We supplemented this data with a smaller qualitative user survey of 235 Lioness user respondents to better understand what was going on from a qualitative perspective.

Key takeaways:

– Less Frequent: Masturbation frequency plummeted while the pandemic boomed — November 2020 showed a 37.78% decline in masturbation frequency when compared to frequency in November 2019.
– Longer Duration: Between February 2020 and April 2020, average session

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