Re: [sudo-discuss] TIL: Hacking Sexual Health: Resistant bugs generally.

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 &lt;marina.kukso(a)gmail.com <mailto:marina.kukso@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 &lt;craigrouskey(a)gmail.com <mailto:craigrouskey@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 &lt;anon195714(a)sbcglobal.net <mailto:anon195714@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: _______________________________________________ sudo-discuss mailing list sudo-discuss(a)lists.sudoroom.org <mailto:sudo-discuss@lists.sudoroom.org> http://lists.sudoroom.org/listinfo/sudo-discuss