The ISO 3533 standard defines the safety requirements for sex toys.
The standard stems from efforts from the Swedish standards agency SIS to introduce a quality norm for sex toys after studies showed an increase of cases in Swedish emergency rooms of rectal foreign bodies, caused by badly designed sex toys. [1] The Swedish proposal was consequentially adopted by ANSI, [2] who then released a RfC for stakeholders in the sex toy industry. The discussion resulted in 2021 in a first release of the norm, as ISO 3533:2021.
Among the requirements this norm imposes on manufacturers: [3]
The ISO 3533 standard defines the safety requirements for sex toys.
The standard stems from efforts from the Swedish standards agency SIS to introduce a quality norm for sex toys after studies showed an increase of cases in Swedish emergency rooms of rectal foreign bodies, caused by badly designed sex toys. [1] The Swedish proposal was consequentially adopted by ANSI, [2] who then released a RfC for stakeholders in the sex toy industry. The discussion resulted in 2021 in a first release of the norm, as ISO 3533:2021.
Among the requirements this norm imposes on manufacturers: [3]