[sudo-discuss] TIL: Hacking Sexual Health

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Kyle (who made Teledildonics) is a good friend, I could reach out and
see if he'd be interested in doing a workshop.

Johannes (of AE) rocks, I don't know when the next time he'll be in
the US is though, he's from Austria.

Just another thought: maybe reach out to the Oakland Good Vibrations
shop and see if someone would be interested in teaching safety/etc?

I am super happy to see this coming up, thanks for proposing it, Vicky!

On 4/4/13 9:53 AM, Vicky Knox wrote:
> WOW. OK, where to start?
> 
> First off: https://sudoroom.org/wiki/page/Today_I_Learned#May_4
> 
> Table of Contents @Masturbation Lib and Teledildonics @Men 
> @Gonorrhea @Sudo Room Donations @Community Infrastructure
> 
> @Masturbation Liberation and Teledildonics: Anon195's ideas are 
> amaaaazing! I've been fascinated by teledildonics ever since I
> heard of the existence of Ted Nelson. 
> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teledildonics> 
> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_Nelson> The closest thing to that
> that I've run into via the hackerspaces has been the Dongiverse,
> which is cool except that I wouldn't want a sharp, porous plastic
> dong up any of my orifices. <http://dongiverse.com/> Maybe a class
> field trip to Arse Elektronica 2013? (AE is an annual SF sex and
> technology event/conference/thingy.) Or how about getting in touch
> with their organizers to see if they'd like to collaborate on a 
> workshop? Ooh ideas! <http://www.monochrom.at/arse-elektronika/> 
> Masturbation liberation: Fuck yeah! I think this should be its own
> TIL and I'm ready to make it happen. Wanna chose a date, Anon195?
> Or would you like to wait on that until we talk more and/or contact
> our contacts (such as AE)? **So who's got the teledildonics
> connection?
> 
> @Men: Would there be any interest in formulating a men's meetup to
> talk about, you know, stuff?
> 
> @Gonorrhea: I think the greatest workshops I've ever been to have
> been variety hours. It's absolutely lovely and fascinating to have 
> educational interludes, kind of like exploring Wikipedia's 
> intertwingularity (see Ted Nelson article). May 4th is reserved!
> Does anyone else have an educational interlude they'd like to add
> to Hacking Menstruation?
> 
> @Sudo Room Donations: These events are the perfect opportunity for
> us to pounce upon unsuspecting donors. Please reach far and wide
> into your networks to advertise this. I'll send a follow-up
> reminder!
> 
> @Community infrastructure: A random hack of kindness will soon be
> making its way toward Sudo Room.
> 
> 
> 2013/4/4 Marina Kukso <marina.kukso at gmail.com 
> <mailto:marina.kukso at gmail.com>>
> 
> excellent.
> 
> i think this also presents an excellent opportunity for discussing 
> what kind of (light) infrastructure would facilitate reproductive 
> and sexual health at the space - very basic stuff, tampons etc.,
> but also community infrastructure - are we living up to our goal
> of being inclusive by providing options in both the physical and 
> community dimensions of the space that allow everyone to feel at 
> home. everyone should be a part of this discussion and i would
> love to speak more with women, queer folks, people of all stripes
> about it.
> 
> - marina
> 
> 
> On Thu, Apr 4, 2013 at 8:25 AM, Craig Rouskey 
> <craigrouskey at gmail.com <mailto:craigrouskey at gmail.com>> wrote:
> 
> I would be down to talk about Gonorrhea and plug our program to 
> eradicate the antibiotic resistant strains! May 4 th
> 
> — Sent from Mailbox <https://bit.ly/SZvoJe> for iPhone
> 
> 
> On Thu, Apr 4, 2013 at 3:46 AM, Anon195714 
> <anon195714 at sbcglobal.net <mailto:anon195714 at sbcglobal.net>>
> wrote:
> 
> 
> 
> Yo's-
> 
> Re. "What does it mean to hack sexual health...?"
> 
> Here's one example.  For years I've had a slogan I tell people
> (typically guys) whose sex drive is on overdrive to the point where
> it warps their attitude toward others (typically gals):
> 
> "Masturbate and keep your objectivity."
> 
> 70% of guys "admit" that they play with themselves, and the other
> 30% are lying.  Yet the hypocrisy around this subject is just
> astounding, and the result is that physical needs become conflated
> with social attitudes and generate oppression of self and
> oppression of others.
> 
> Envision a culture where relationships are based on partners 
> feeding each other (as in, holding the forks and spoons full of
> food up to each others' mouths during a meal) instead of on people
> having sex with each other.  People would run around frantically
> seeking partners because otherwise they'd either have to feed
> themselves (oh!, the embarrassment!) or go hungry and die.
> 
> That's where our culture is about sex.  It's crazy.
> 
> So I'd suggest "masturbation liberation" as a sexuality hacking
> topic.
> 
> It even has major potential for cybernetic devices and interfaces
> and online communication enhancements.
> 
> "Did you try building the new Orgasmatron?"
> 
> "Yeah.  The interface works pretty well, but there's a bug in the
> code, so I patched it.  Wanna' download my version, see what you
> think?"
> 
> Later.... "Hey, your version's a lot better than the original.  Now
> I was thinking, the interface could be improved.  Here, I'll make
> one for you on the 3D printer."
> 
> "Oh, cool, yeah I like your CAD diagram, I think it'll work, so go
> ahead and print one for me..."
> 
> Here's another potential topic:
> 
> Chastity belts for men in cultures that oppress women (for example
> by making women wear oppressive shapeless garments from head to
> toe, that barely leave enough of an opening for their eyes to see
> the world).
> 
> Even one decent prototype would stir up a bunch of publicity about
> the subject, and hopefully generate some embarrassment on the part
> of men whose answer to their own weaknesses is to oppress women.
> "Stop the problem at its source: the dirty minds of men!"
> 
> OK, enough for one night;-)
> 
> -G.
> 
> 
> =====
> 
> 
> On 13-04-04-Thu 12:18 AM, Vicky Knox wrote:
>> Tonight during the general meeting I proposed the Today I Learned
>> event "Hacking Sexual Health". I'd like to open up the floor to
>> multiple facilitators interested in this topic area to help me
>> lead either one TIL workshop, or a series of workshops if there
>> is sufficient excitement. Hacking Sexual Health is intended for
>> sexual and asexual people alike.
>> 
>> So what does it mean to hack sexual health? Ruminate on it. :]
>> 
>> My personal interest is hacking menstruation. I'd like to lead a
>> workshop for creating cloth pads out of recycled clothing. The
>> workshop is intended both for people who menstruate and for
>> people who have friends who menstruate (and want to make them
>> lovely presents!). We will go over different lady product options
>> and have fun cost-comparisons for different products and
>> unproducts.
>> 
>> I will be reserving either April 27th or May 4th upon consulting
>> my secretary. :P
>> 
>> Please contact me if you are interested in developing your own
>> workshop or helping me to facilitate menstruation hacking!
>> 
>> ykciV
>> 
>> PS: Clothing hackers, you know who you are!
>> 
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