Sex and Sexuality
the Week of September 8, 2014
We explore technology’s complicated role in our sex lives, the politics of running sex tech startups, and social media as a space of sexual exploration and acceptance. We look at online dating and poly culture, the double-standards of in-office affairs, and power and sexuality in Silicon Valley. We discuss being gay on the internet and the hazards of OKCupid in patriarchal society, plus the tech industry’s relationship to the LGBT community. Header image CC-BY Jamie Manktelow, cropped.
Gay Internet Witches on the Internet Get More Kisses
Go out into the twitters. Become more gay. More powerful!
My Apparatus
Many of us do not know what a private body looks like.
Poly Culture and Online Dating
The search for more inclusive polyamorous options on dating sites.
Online Dating in the SF Tech Industry
What gives men the idea that sending these kinds of sexually explicit messages off-the-bat, unsolicited, and before getting to know a person is okay?
Trans Challenges to the Tech World
By placing improvements for trans tech workers within a systems perspective, transgender rights advocates can make tech more accessible to the most marginalized parts of the trans community.
Silicon Valley’s Cult of Male Ego
It creates an environment where a woman’s sexuality is an item for public consumption, a thing which can be approved of or rejected, valued or denigrated by the community.
That Time I Was Caught Cheating, Sucking Face, and Sitting on a White Man’s Lap at Work
Men walk away virtually unscathed by their acts of extra-marital sexuality. Women get contempt and professional backlash.
Sex and Tech: The Sexual Revolution
There is another sexual revolution happening, and it's online now.
SexTech Startups in a Hostile Business World
How is this environment fair? And who really pays in the end?
This issue is made possible in part by some of our generous readers: Jason Pontin, Thom Baynes, AV Flox, Bernard Yu, Jez Humble, Alex Clemmer, Rob Harrop and Joey Echeverria.