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===Fascinating Friday Films===
===Fascinating Friday Films===
Let's include in this weekly event mind-expanding movies on the realm of sex and sexuality.  
Let's include in this weekly event mind-expanding movies on the realm of sex and sexuality.  
*Movies
*[http://bikeporntour.blogspot.com/2013/03/hop-on-porny-express_15.html Bike Smut] screening!
===Interactive Pheromone Station===
===Interactive Pheromone Station===
Based off the old Exploratorium installation titled "''The Olfaction of Attraction''", explorers had access to little squeeze bottles with human pheromones in them. Depending on one's genes and gender, one may find the smell either repulsive or attractive. 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.
Based off the old Exploratorium installation titled "''The Olfaction of Attraction''", explorers had access to little squeeze bottles with human pheromones in them. Depending on one's genes and gender, one may find the smell either repulsive or attractive. 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.
==="Quantified Sex" Experiments===
==="Quantified Sex" Experiments===
Heart rate monitors, skin flushing, eeg, etc.  
Heart rate monitors, skin flushing, eeg, etc.  
===Self-Examinations===
Genitalia, yay!


==Inclusivity==
==Inclusivity==
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How do we make the hackerspace a more inclusive space for people of all intersections of human sexuality?  
How do we make the hackerspace a more inclusive space for people of all intersections of human sexuality?  
*Let's create a sexual health box, including menstrual and safe sex products and information. Thinking in terms of the analog world and how people interact within it is really important!  
*Let's create a sexual health box, including menstrual and safe sex products and information. Thinking in terms of the analog world and how people interact within it is really important!  
==Resources==
==Resources and People to Connect With==
* Ned and Maggie Mayhem of [http://psigasm.net/]
* Good Vibes. OH WAIT, Vicky knows Joani Blank, the founder!
**The Feelmore
*FemSexComm/FemSex
*Arse Electronika
*[http://slashdong.org/ Slashdong]: 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/ Slashdong]: 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.
*''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."
*''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."
==And always remember...==
==And always remember...==
<blockquote><big>'''''The Clitoris is a direct line to the Matrix.'''''</big></blockquote>
<blockquote><big>'''''The Clitoris is a direct line to the Matrix.'''''</big></blockquote>