ISO 3533

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]

• Equipment like buttplugs or anal beads that may enter the anus and rectum have to be designed in such a way that they will not get stuck, and that easy extraction by medical personnel should be feasible.
• Toys such as chastity belts, cock rings and bondage cuffs must be easily removable in the case of emergency or loss of keys with common household tools such as pliers.
• Toys that may enter bodily orifices should be free of burrs or sharp edges that might cause cuts.

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