LOS ANGELES — Tech feature news site The Information has profiled Caroline Spiegel, founder of audio erotica startup Quinn.
The 24-year-old entrepreneur founded Quinn three years ago after dropping out of Stanford University during her junior year.
Following in the footsteps of her older brother, Snapchat CEO Evan Spiegel, Caroline Spiegel aspires to turn Quinn into “the Peloton of audio porn,” according to the lengthy feature penned Annie Goldsmith for the subscription-only boutique publication.
According to the New York Post, Quinn claims to have surpassed 300,000 subscribers.
Spiegel’s service is another example of erotica marketed for women which attempts to differentiate itself from what she has termed mainstream porn.
Spiegel claims that while other forms of porn are visual — which in her view is a “male” preference — Quinn’s aural sex content, served in user-generated 10-minute clips, provides female-centric fantasies of “the kind of good sex people want,” which are specifically “designed to make you orgasm.”
The app's content creators “can earn as much as $5,000 per month by submitting stories which users can access for $2.99 per month,” the New York Post reported. “Creators also have a landing page similar to that provided by Spotify so that listeners develop loyalty to particular contributors.”
Crucially, Quinn is one of preciously few sex-oriented services that is allowed to maintain a TikTok presence and has currently amassed more than 100,000 followers.
The service notes it is “a sexual wellness app built for women by women. It’s a platform for hot, ethical erotic audio.”
Spiegel told The Information that her version of feminism is “more about how I think it’s empowering to be turned-on by content that is made ethically and is genuinely very hot. It’s not watered down. It’s not what people think women want. It’s made directly in response to what women want — and that is something new.”
To read “Caroline Spiegel’s Porn Revolution,” visit TheInformation.com.