VenusPlusX attended Arse Elektronika 2011.<\/p>\n
The presentations were extremely wide-ranging, and showed the creativity possible as a new age of sexual freedom emerges. Each one incrementally stretched the group or “hive” mind in real time. A dedicated panel on financial autonomy tackled the banking blockades facing the adult industry, mapping the alternative payment networks that help these communities survive. By exploring early transaction models from crypto casinos<\/a> and independent creator platforms, the session illustrated how marginalized innovators were already bypassing traditional financial gateways. These economic strategies proved just as essential to the broader movement as the physical hardware being discussed.<\/p>\n
Among the dozen+ offerings, we heard from\u00a0Kitty Stryker in her frank talk, “Sex Work, Disability, and Stigma”\u00a0 <\/em>and\u00a0Maymay\u00a0presented “A Class Analysis of Social Status in the BDSM Scene<\/a><\/em>\u201d (also available on\u00a0YouTube<\/a>).\u00a0David Fine, who vaguely describes himself as “a Sex Robot from the 25th century” <\/em>spending\u00a0his
\ntime in our era guiding technology in useful, or at least interesting,
\ndirections, brought us his reimagining of the\u00a0Mindflex<\/a>\u00a0kids’ toy (available on\u00a0Amazon<\/a>) which he modified to activate a vibrator, simple and perhaps the first attempt we\u2019ve seen to apply an\u00a0EEG headset\u00a0<\/a>\u00a0to a sex toy; The future possibilities are endless.<\/p><\/blockquote>\nHere is the link<\/a>.<\/p>\n
And there have been many other write-ups<\/a> and comments, we can’t link all of them here, but feel free to google.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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