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! _______________________________________________ sudo-discuss mailing listsudo-discuss@lists.sudoroom.orghttp://lists.sudoroom.org/listinfo/sudo-discuss