Mattie Brice wrote a great piece about Arse Elektronika 2014.<\/p>\n
\n\tThis past weekend, I went to the annual sex and tech conference in San Francisco, Arse Elektronika<\/a>.
\n\tThis was actually the first conference I spoke at back in 2012 when it
\n\twas specifically about play and games, and I got to come again this year
\n\tto see what new projects people thinking and crafting about sex were up
\n\tto. This conference tends to attract a cross-section of toy makers and
\n\tacademics interested in sex topics, but also nets in software people and
\n\tartists.<\/p>\n\tWhat\u2019s interesting for me about this group of people who convene over
\n\tsex and tech is how similar and different the mood is to my experience
\n\tin video games. The demographics are about the same, with maybe the
\n\tratio of women you\u2019d see at an indie games event, so higher than the
\n\tindustry but not as much as men. But there is an unspoken understanding
\n\t\u00a0of non-judgment that I see in the kink community in SF that makes it
\n\teasier for people to bend outside of gender norms for the most part. If
\n\tanything, a lot of baggage around heteronormativity and monogamy is left
\n\tbehind, but technocentrism and the centering of hegemonic masculinity\u2019s
\n\trelationship with sex still exists. An interesting site of reference if
\n\tyou want to see the dynamics where fluid sexuality is a thing and how
\n\tmen, and sometimes others, relate to each other in a context they don\u2019t
\n\treally get to outside of these situations. So I wanted to share with you
\n\tall my thoughts on some of the presentations and how they relate to our
\n\trealm of play.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\nLink<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Mattie Brice wrote a great piece about Arse Elektronika 2014. This past weekend, I went to the annual sex and tech conference in San Francisco, Arse Elektronika. This was actually the first conference I spoke at back in 2012 when it was specifically about play and games, and I got to come again this year … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"koromo_page_header":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arse-elektronika","koromo-columns","tablet-grid-50","mobile-grid-100","grid-parent","grid-50"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/monochrom.at\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post\/9691","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/monochrom.at\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/monochrom.at\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monochrom.at\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monochrom.at\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9691"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/monochrom.at\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post\/9691\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/monochrom.at\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monochrom.at\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monochrom.at\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}