IntimateRider’s Popular Sex Chair Gets a Higher Back

by Jenna Owsianik · Published July 21, 2019 · Updated May 7, 2023

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Two black low-slung sex chairs with steel frames and backs on a white background. The chair on the right, which has a slightly higher back, is the Intimate Rider High Back — *The standard and higher-back versions of the Intimate Rider sex chair.*

Enjoying sex after a spinal cord injury can be challenging.

Yet assistive sex aids, like sex toys and furniture, may offer new possibilities for sexual expression.

The company IntimateRider, for example, sells a line of sexual mobility aids, including a recently released high-back sex chair.

The new IntimateRider High Back is 33-inches high. That is 4-inches taller than the original IntimateRider sex chair, which was designed by a man living with a C6-C7 spinal cord injury.

The low-slung chair sits on a gliding mechanism that requires minimal upper-body strength to slide back and forth and create a thrusting movement.

Related Read: The Best Sex Chairs for Disabled Adults

In an email from IntimateRider, a company representative said the new high-back chair was built in response to feedback:

The main reason we came out with a high back IntimateRider chair is that we have had requests for something with some more back support and comfort for taller individuals.

The company also plans to develop more support options:

We are also looking into designing a upper trunk support strap or lateral side supports that can help secure the user more comfortably who might not have the lateral control needed to sit upright.

In the video below, veteran sex educator Sue Johanson features the IntimateRider during a segment of her long-running call-in show, Sunday Night Sex Show. Johanson shares more information on the product while a clothed couple gives a demonstration of how it works

Image credit: Intimate Rider/Instagram

Jenna Owsianik

Jenna Owsianik is a Canadian journalist and sex tech industry expert. She is the Founder and Editor-in-Chief of Sex For Every Body®.

Her expertise covers state-of-the-art sex technologies and the major fields driving innovations in intimacy: robotics, virtual reality, remote sex (teledildonics), haptics, immersive adult entertainment, human augmentation, virtual sex, and sexual health.

A trained journalist with a Masters of Journalism from The University of British Columbia, Jenna’s reporting has appeared on Futurism.com, Al Jazeera English, CTV British Columbia online, CBS Sunday Morning, CBS 60 Minutes, Global News, and CKNW Radio in Canada and the United States.