4 Apr
2013
4 Apr
'13
9:53 a.m.
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(a)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(a)gmail.com>wrote;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(a)sbcglobal.net>wrote;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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4 Apr
4 Apr
10:09 a.m.
New subject: TIL: Hacking Sexual Health
A few leads on the topic, courtesy of Bart Bernhardt (who had answered a
call for ideas on a broader subject for Valentine's Day this year). Kyle
and people from AE did a show-and-tell for the Commonwealth Club
---
"- Kyle Machulis is a whip-smart brash software engineer who, on the
side, blogs about teleldildonics (using haptic and telecommunications
technology to facilitate long-distance sex), DIY sex toys, and other
mash-ups of sex and tech. He's really fun. http://slashdong.org/
- Long, long ago, the Exploratorium Biology dept had an exhibit that was
something like "The Olfaction of Attraction" and had little squeeze
bottles with human pheromones in them. Depending on your genes and
gender, you may find the smell either repulsive or attractive. This
would make a great interactive station. It's fantastic seeing two
people, one with a look of disgust and the other with a pleased smile,
trying to reconcile their different perceptions.
- The Archaeology of Vice. Kari Jones and Liz Clevinger work in the
archaeology programs at the Presidio of San Francisco. Among the things
unearthed? Well, the archeological record suggests that, shockingly,
soldiers stationed there liked sex, based on the wide range of vintage
porn, prophylactics, and medically-dubious STD cures dug up in the
Presidio."
--Rick
10:12 a.m.
New subject: TIL: Hacking Sexual Health
A few leads on the topic, courtesy of Bart Bernhardt (who had answered a
call for ideas on a broader subject for Valentine's Day this year). Kyle
and people from AE did a show-and-tell for the Commonwealth Club
---
"- Kyle Machulis is a whip-smart brash software engineer who, on the
side, blogs about teleldildonics (using haptic and telecommunications
technology to facilitate long-distance sex), DIY sex toys, and other
mash-ups of sex and tech. He's really fun. http://slashdong.org/
- Long, long ago, the Exploratorium Biology dept had an exhibit that was
something like "The Olfaction of Attraction" and had little squeeze
bottles with human pheromones in them. Depending on your genes and
gender, you may find the smell either repulsive or attractive. This
would make a great interactive station. It's fantastic seeing two
people, one with a look of disgust and the other with a pleased smile,
trying to reconcile their different perceptions.
- The Archaeology of Vice. Kari Jones and Liz Clevinger work in the
archaeology programs at the Presidio of San Francisco. Among the things
unearthed? Well, the archeological record suggests that, shockingly,
soldiers stationed there liked sex, based on the wide range of vintage
porn, prophylactics, and medically-dubious STD cures dug up in the
Presidio."
--Rick
11:01 a.m.
New subject: TIL: Hacking Sexual Health: Resistant bugs generally.
... which reminds me: RESISTANT STRAINS. Not just sexually transmitted
but other as well.
Resistant gonorrhea, and other resistant bugs, for which the treatments
that worked in the past are now not working.
Thanks to massive abuse of antibiotics in agriculture, and also thanks
to humans who misuse antibiotics in various ways, we are rapidly heading
for the "pre-antibiotic" era all over again. The whole topic of
antibiotics and resistance ought to be on our agenda, including
non-sexually-transmitted resistant bacteria such as MRSA
(methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus) and MDRTB
(multi-drug-resistant and massively-drug-resistant tuberculosis), and
XDRTB (extremely drug-resistant tuberculosis).
Tuberculosis is a big deal in certain parts of the Bay Area including
San Francisco and Oakland. There are certain bus lines in SF that
doctors & nurses call "TB runs" because taking those buses entails a
high risk of exposure to TB.
For that matter we should also be thinking about emerging influenza
strains such as the new variant of avian flu (H5N9 if I recall
correctly) that's just killed five people in China, and the other new
virus that's killed a half dozen or so in the Middle East and England:
right now these seem like tiny isolated events, but any new flu strain
has the risk of turning out to be another monster pandemic that causes
millions of deaths in months. Viruses of course are not treated with
antibiotics, but are relevant because they are infectious/contagious.
These things are killers, and death by untreatable infection is nasty in
the utmost.
Minus antibiotics again, sanitation & hygiene, safe food preparation,
and safe sexual practices, become that much more important.
One thing everyone can do starting right now, is wash hands a) after
using the toilet, b) before preparing food, and c) before eating: every
time, no exceptions. Toward that end we can make sure that the
bathrooms and kitchen in the common spaces, and the industrial sink in
our space, all have bottles of hand-washing soap and paper towels at all
times.
-G.
=====
On 13-04-04-Thu 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(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
<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
<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:
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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New subject: 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(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
<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
<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:
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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