F*cking technology! Making love with machines
Magnat, Maya Ofir
Let's talk about sex and technology, baby! A critical, playful and sex positive look into sex and technology. With my insights as a sex educator and performance artist that explores digital intimacy, I'm going to talk about how sextech can help us change the way we think about sex and make love. I'll show examples of trends in the field: Teledildonics, Virtual reality porn, sex with robots, online games and what these trends can say about human sexuality in the digital age.
 So, hi, I'm Maya, and I'm a performance artist, and I deal with digital performance and mediated intimacy, and I also work as a sex educator. And today I'm going to talk about sexuality and technology. I have been interested in sexuality since I was a kid, and actually when I was five years old, I told my dad that when I grow up, I want to be a prostitute. He wasn't pleased to say the least. But how did five years old me even know what a prostitute was, and thought that it's my dream job? It might be because we live in a society overflowing with sexuality. Advertisements sell sex and objectify our bodies, movies show us, and kids watch porn from as early as nine years old. But even though we are exposed to sex all the time, talking about it is still a taboo. I wanted to give this talk not just because it's a fun subject, and I get to say vulva on stage, but because talking about it subject openly makes people feel more comfortable to talk about it themselves. And the other thing, that we're used to seeing technology as the killer of intimacy, but since technology is here to stay, it's important for me to establish a more feminist sex positive and educational view. Feminist, because the sex tech industry is dominated by men who are the main creators and consumers. And digital technology can become a platform where women are a purpose and not a mean. Though it's a controversial subject in feminist theory, I believe that there can be such thing as positive feminist porn, and that it's an important thing. Sex positive is the idea that sex is good as long as it's consensual, and that everyone should have the right to enjoy sexual pleasure the way they wanted without being judged or tolerates slut shaming. And educational, because having an honest, informative, and non-judgmental sex education is necessary for people's health and happiness. So today I'm going to start talking about sexuality and technology and how technology affects our sex life, and then show products and projects I'm interested in in the field of sex tech. But what is sex tech? Cindy Gallup, the founder of Make Love Not Porn website, sex tech advocate and past Republican speaker, defines sex tech as any form of technology or sex venture that enhances, innovates and disrupts in any area of human sexuality and sexual experience. Dr. Trudy Barber, researching the impact of technology on our sexuality, says that since we have disconnected sex for pleasure and sex reproduction, we started seeing sex as a form of entertainment. And the world of adult entertainment is worth a lot. Today the porn industry is worth more than $97 billion. And just like any other big industry, they target the mainstream audience, straight men and women. I want to find out whether in this profit-driven field, I can find products and projects that challenge in reach and teach us something new about sex. Technology and sexuality are supposedly opposing things, but when we use technology to create intimacy, the result is much more complicated than that. On the one hand, it's easier to get to know new partners using dating sites and apps. You can also connect more easily with people who have the same sexual interests in you, and Wi-Fi connected sex toys help us feel closer to remote partners. On the other hand, a research published this year showed that young people in the US have less sex now than in the past. One of the reasons the researchers suggested was the social changes caused by the technological progress and mostly social networks and online streaming. So we can use technology to have more sex and better sex, but technology is also disconnecting us from each other. And this tension exists even in all the products I'm going to talk about today. So we chose to focus on three main fields of sex tech, sex toys, porn and games. And in these fields, I'm going to talk about projects and ideas that warmed my heart and other parts. After smart homes and cars, sex toys are also getting connected to the web, and it's called telediltonics. For example, Wi-Fi makes vibrators operated by an app, and the Kiro is a set of toys you can use to feel each other's movements from afar. Fuck, it's pretty good. Shit. It doesn't feel like sex and it doesn't feel like wanking either. It's just, it's like totally different. With less effort than wanking, is there a way to make this go faster? It's lagging. Oh no. Oh no. Wait, why is it stopped? Oh no, sorry. Now the video is gone. The video is gone. It just says input HDMI. The technicality is of fucking future porn. Fuck. Shit, it's weird. It's halfway in between actually having sex with someone and just having a wank in this weird virtual space in between. It's really strange. Really strange. Sorry. So when they work, telediltonics can give us a unique sensation that's different from human or vibrators touch and can help us feel connected to a remote partner. But at the same time, they are leaving us more exposed. Lately there has been a lawsuit against WeVib collecting private data from users' apps like body temperatures, most used settings and how many times it has been used. The subject of this sex toys data safety raises a lot of questions like what happens if someone hacks your sex toy and operates it from afar? Would it be considered as a sexual assault? But not all sex toys are penetrative. There are some more subtle and erotic toys like Wisp, which is a sex toy jewelry that enriches foreplay by light central touch, like wind and a rousing smell. The Kissinger is a device that lets you kiss your partner from afar and the Pillow Talk let you hear your partner's heartbeat while you sleep. I'm not sure how many people will use these toys, but I love the fact that they are challenging their perception of sex by focusing on the foreplay and not the orgasm. Sex doesn't have to be about trying to get into a certain goal and who says you need to stop after you reach this goal. For instance, if I go to a restaurant, I feel obliged to eat a main course, but what if I just want a starter or just a dessert? The important thing is just enjoying your food together. Another type of object we use for sex are robots. Machines designed to look like men, women, or children to use as sex toys or substitute for human partners. Today sex robots are in development, but very realistic looking sex dolls are on the market for a few thousand dollars. Human-like objects might have very negative implications as said in the campaign against sex robots led by academics, Caitlin Richardson and Eric Bealing. They think the development of sex robots should be stopped because it will cause further objectification of women and children. They believe it will only cause more apathy towards people and worsen the violence and power structures in society. In her article in the defense of sex machines, Dr. Kate Devlin, computer researcher, says that sex robots can be much more than an imitation of a human body. Sex robots are now designed by men for men, like most technologies we use today. But we can design them in any way that will help us explore sexuality without human restrictions. The machine is a clean slate that enables us to rethink about our ideas about sex and gender. So are these objects going to replace human sex or relationships? A partner that is always there for you and will never hurt your feelings or reject you is attempting idea for a lot of people. Like creating deep intimacy is a mutual process that these robots aren't capable of yet. Trudy Barber even thinks the machines would enable people to greater appreciate the real thing. Porn hub porn site statistics showed in 2016 there were more than 91 billion porn videos watched by 64 million visitors every day. The problem starts when people watch mainstream porn like a realistic portrayal of sex. When they have sex and see that not all women like it when you come under a face and not all men can have an erection for an hour and a half, they think something is wrong about them. More and more young men can't orgasm through penetration because they are so used to masturbating to porn. They lose the ability to fantasize and when they focus on just one person, they can't come. Cindy Gallup recognized this negative influence of mainstream porn when she dated younger men and she decided to open a website called make love not porn to disprove porn myths by showing the differences between porn and real sex. Later she added a video sharing platform that celebrates real world sex. Anyone can upload the videos to the site, all videos are watched and curated and the performers get paid. The performer are normal people doing their normal sexual activity. So you get to see things you normally don't see on porn like emotions and intimacy. And the performers also say that uploading videos to the site is a transformative process for them. It's helping them improve their self-esteem and their relationships with their partners. Another site showing sex in a different way is beautiful agony that was made by Richard Lawrence and Lauren O'Olley when they got frustrated by boring mainstream porn. On beautiful agony you can watch people masturbate but you can only see them from the shoulders up. Unlike mainstream porn when we can see everything, beautiful agony let us imagine trying to show that eroticism isn't only in their naked body but also in the face. I said that is true. It's not the death, it's the life. I masturbate on average about twice a day, morning and night. And my orgasms are all different, each one of them I don't think I've ever had one that's been the same as the other. The wanking is the big part. I mean feminine, soft masturbation, etc. It vibrates. One of the things I get off on most is watching a girl do her thing. You know she knows what she wants and she's in the process of getting it. I heard about beautiful agony when I was in high school and to my insecure teenage self it was an amazing revelation. It wasn't just hot, it was funny, weird and sometimes sad but most of all it made me realize that I'm okay and that there's a huge variety of O-faces. With VR being the buzz world in tech today, the world of porn is no exception. One published that VR porn had 38 million searches in 2016. And Badoink VR porn site gave another interesting statistic that while 94% of the viewers are men, 30% of the viewers downloaded videos from a woman's perspective. Most of VR porn is filmed through a first person point of view. The users feel like they're inside the actor's body. VR gives men the opportunity to look at the world and experience sex through a woman's perspective and vice versa. Seeing things from a different gender, skin color or body type might help to change the way we think. But at the moment the variety of performers in VR porn is just the same as in mainstream porn. She's almost none. Her immersive experience can also have a therapeutic importance. Virtual sexology was made with the guidance of a sexual therapist and combined VR and telediltonics to help people deal with sexual dysfunctions and teach them techniques that will make them better lovers. It can be a way for people that don't have any sexual experience to learn about sex in the human body and hopefully take this knowledge into the real world. VR can let you experience things you can't do in real life and make fantasies come true. But surprisingly, people aren't looking for that. Annali, president of two adult entertainment companies, says that consumers want to have the girlfriend experience. They're moving away from the more fake plastic porn image and they want to see where the girl is kissing you and looking in your eyes and telling you how much she wants to be with you. For example, in sleep with Miku, you can sleep next to an animated character in VR. Hear her breathe and make soft noises while she sleeps. If you move a lot in bed, she will wake up and ask you if everything is okay. And she can also wake you up in the morning. At the moment, most of the content in VR porn is just as harmful as in mainstream porn. VR immersive abilities might even have greater consequences over the way we perceive sex because it is so vivid. But done in a different way, VR porn can also create a safe place for people to learn about sex, try a different body, or experience intimacy in a more realistic way. It's enough to look at people trying VR porn for the first time to understand that it can become one of the most important innovations in sex tech. Oh my God! Wait, was that me? She's masturbating in front of me. She's on a table, it looks like. She seems like she's into it. So that's good. Well, I see really big boobs right there and right there and then like, oh my God, okay. Oh, it's me. I am the boss. This is brilliant. I guess my hands have started touching her, but basically my legs are spread like this, or my virtual legs are. And then her head's between my legs and she's just licking my vulva. Looks like some type of pet house. I see two girls having a dildo, they're double-sided. Oh God, hold on. I'm the one who's, someone's doing something to. This is not what I expected. My abs don't look like that, I've got a lot more chest hair. And this chick I want to marry. My abs have never looked so good though. That's for damn sure. I see some tits. Yeah, I also have awesome tits. My boobs are like really perky. They're like up here. How do I have like an innie on my nipple? Look at you, she's so thick. Yeah, this is definitely way more in my face than regular porn. Am I about to put it in her butt? So seriously, when was the last time porn made you this happy? When we talk about sex games, we usually talk about online games that look like the Sims sexy version. The player can design an avatar, chat with different avatars and have sex in different positions. But I want to talk about a few apps that take the games into the real world. So Desire is a game for couples that uses gamification to spice up their relationships. You can challenge your partner in different categories like clothes, outside, at the office, etc. When both finish your challenge, you earn points that allow you to level up and unlock harder tasks. Desire is different from other sex apps because its creators want users to reduce phone interaction. The app doesn't require you to check the phone while playing and a lot of the dares are done face to face. The second thing is that new dares are created every day by the online user community, enabling users to get ideas from other people's creative, sexy minds and share their own. Paraphit is another app used in gamification but for a different purpose. Artem Rodionov with the help of professional physiotherapists created a pelvic floor sensor wirelessly connected to a smartphone which helps you tone up your pelvic floor muscles. One of every four women suffers from pelvic floor muscles problems that can cause urinary incontinence and also affect sex life. Practicing floor muscles can also lead to stronger orgasms and longer sex for men and women. So using Paraphit, women can practice contracting their pelvic floor muscles by playing a simple game where the vagina is the controller. My favorite is OMGES. It was founded by Lydia Denyeller and Rob Perkins working with different researchers and it's meant to teach men and women how to reach a female orgasm. When it comes to pleasure, like actual techniques and what works for women, there's never been any large scale research done. We decided to change all that. In partnership with researchers at Indiana University and the Kinsey Institute, we did the first ever large scale study to understand the specific ways different women find pleasure. What we found is that lots of women share similar techniques, some of which didn't even have names yet. Kind of like ingredients that combine in different ways to achieve more pleasure and better orgasms. So we made OMGES to put it all out in the open. These techniques come from the collective experience of over 2,000 women ages 18 to 95. That's a lot of experience. It's a completely new approach, refreshingly honest and direct, so that women, men and couples can explore ways to make a great thing even better. So when I told my friends about this site, they were so disappointed and said that everyone knows about the clitoris and why don't I ever show them something interesting? Well, no. A lot of women are scared or disgusted by the revolva or never even looked at it. When I was working at a website for teenage girls, I got a lot of questions like this one sent to me by a 13-year-old girl. Hi, I don't know how to ask this, so I'll just be direct. They're always writing about masturbation and I want to try it. The problem is I don't know how. If I want to masturbate, should I be completely naked or just without my pants and underwear? So it doesn't really matter what you wear when you learn how to masturbate, but it is very important to know that 71% of women orgasm through clitoral stimulation and not penetrative sex. Today and clitoral stimulation are essential for female orgasm and it's a problem when you or your partner don't know what the clitoris is. On OMDS, you can learn the different components of a clitoral technique. You can watch interviews with women and watch each woman perform one of the techniques on herself. And finally, the fun part, an interactive touch screen where you can try yourself on a virtual image of each woman's vulva. Many porn videos show female masturbation, but OMDS showing it for women's own empowerment and pleasure. These games can help us learn more and improve our sex life in a fun and funny way. But in the end, really good sex starts with communication. Talking about sex isn't easy for most people. In movies, no one talks during sex and they all magically know what to do, but in real life, we need to overcome our shyness. You know how many times I've practiced just on saying penis and vulva so it was so natural? So technology can help us create a different type of intimacy that is not going to replace the one we have today, but enable new sexual experiences. Same technology for sex can be a complex thing since it can be alienating and create intimacy in the same time. So as consumers and creators, I think it is important to try and find the exceptional products that might show the way for a more feminist sex positive and educational sex tech. All through the ages, our sexuality has been suppressed and repressed by religion, tradition, government and other power structures. Technology can be another tool for oppression, but it can also be used as a tool for sexual liberation. We can use sex tech to teach about sex. We can use it to help people talk more about this subject. We can use it as a tool for self-discovery without human restrictions. We can use it to ask questions about the way we have sex. We can use it as a tool to help people with sexual dysfunction, disabilities or people that don't have any sexual experiences. And we can use it to have delicious, funny, pleasurable, messy, wonderful sex. Thank you. Thank you. There is time for one, let's say two questions. If you make it brief. I think there was a lot of input, but maybe the audience is quite shy. Yeah, just maybe start over. I think, thank you for your talk. Very interesting. I was wondering, do you think there's a difference when it comes to sex toys for heterosexual and homosexual people? Yeah. There are almost no toys specifically for homosexual people at the moment. It's one of the things companies should think about. As I said, they focus on the mainstream community and mostly on straight men and women, where the main consumers, so this is their interest at the moment. It could be like also helping transgenders in sexuality. Sure. Now there's like only, I know only one sex story for transgenders, which is amazing, but sure, we need more of them. Thank you. Maybe a second question. Hi, thank you for the talk. I was wondering when you do sex education with young teenagers and people like that, how do you approach their parents or do their parents approach you and what kind of questions do they ask and maybe do you have some recommendations how parents can approach these topics with their children? I'll ask the last question because it's most important is known that when parents talk with their children about sex, it makes the teenagers have sex later in life and have less dangerous sexual activity. So just talking about this subject, opening it up and making sure that your kids know that it's okay to talk to you about this subject and nothing bad will happen to them and they can share things with you is the most important thing. Thank you. It's 44, I think we have to wrap it up, but you'll be staying here I guess for maybe more private questions on the matter. Thank you. Maya. Thank you. You're welcome. Girls thank you. Very interesting. Thank you.
 So, hi, I'm Maya, and I'm a performance artist, and I deal with digital performance and mediated  intimacy, and I also work as a sex educator.  And today I'm going to talk about sexuality and technology.  I have been interested in sexuality since I was a kid, and actually when I was five  years old, I told my dad that when I grow up, I want to be a prostitute.  He wasn't pleased to say the least.  But how did five years old me even know what a prostitute was, and thought that it's my  dream job?  It might be because we live in a society overflowing with sexuality.  Advertisements sell sex and objectify our bodies, movies show us, and kids watch porn  from as early as nine years old.  But even though we are exposed to sex all the time, talking about it is still a taboo.  I wanted to give this talk not just because it's a fun subject, and I get to say vulva  on stage, but because talking about it subject openly makes people feel more comfortable  to talk about it themselves.  And the other thing, that we're used to seeing technology as the killer of intimacy, but  since technology is here to stay, it's important for me to establish a more feminist sex positive  and educational view.  Feminist, because the sex tech industry is dominated by men who are the main creators  and consumers.  And digital technology can become a platform where women are a purpose and not a mean.  Though it's a controversial subject in feminist theory, I believe that there can be such thing  as positive feminist porn, and that it's an important thing.  Sex positive is the idea that sex is good as long as it's consensual, and that everyone  should have the right to enjoy sexual pleasure the way they wanted without being judged or  tolerates slut shaming.  And educational, because having an honest, informative, and non-judgmental sex education  is necessary for people's health and happiness.  So today I'm going to start talking about sexuality and technology and how technology  affects our sex life, and then show products and projects I'm interested in in the field  of sex tech.  But what is sex tech?  Cindy Gallup, the founder of Make Love Not Porn website, sex tech advocate and past  Republican speaker, defines sex tech as any form of technology or sex venture that enhances,  innovates and disrupts in any area of human sexuality and sexual experience.  Dr. Trudy Barber, researching the impact of technology on our sexuality, says that since  we have disconnected sex for pleasure and sex reproduction, we started seeing sex as  a form of entertainment.  And the world of adult entertainment is worth a lot.  Today the porn industry is worth more than $97 billion.  And just like any other big industry, they target the mainstream audience, straight men  and women.  I want to find out whether in this profit-driven field, I can find products and projects that  challenge in reach and teach us something new about sex.  Technology and sexuality are supposedly opposing things, but when we use technology to create  intimacy, the result is much more complicated than that.  On the one hand, it's easier to get to know new partners using dating sites and apps.  You can also connect more easily with people who have the same sexual interests in you,  and Wi-Fi connected sex toys help us feel closer to remote partners.  On the other hand, a research published this year showed that young people in the US have  less sex now than in the past.  One of the reasons the researchers suggested was the social changes caused by the technological  progress and mostly social networks and online streaming.  So we can use technology to have more sex and better sex, but technology is also disconnecting  us from each other.  And this tension exists even in all the products I'm going to talk about today.  So we chose to focus on three main fields of sex tech, sex toys, porn and games.  And in these fields, I'm going to talk about projects and ideas that warmed my heart and  other parts.  After smart homes and cars, sex toys are also getting connected to the web, and it's called  telediltonics.  For example, Wi-Fi makes vibrators operated by an app, and the Kiro is a set of toys you  can use to feel each other's movements from afar.  Fuck, it's pretty good.  Shit.  It doesn't feel like sex and it doesn't feel like wanking either.  It's just, it's like totally different.  With less effort than wanking, is there a way to make this go faster?  It's lagging.  Oh no.  Oh no.  Wait, why is it stopped?  Oh no, sorry.  Now the video is gone.  The video is gone.  It just says input HDMI.  The technicality is of fucking future porn.  Fuck.  Shit, it's weird.  It's halfway in between actually having sex with someone and just having a wank in this  weird virtual space in between.  It's really strange.  Really strange.  Sorry.  So when they work, telediltonics can give us a unique sensation that's different from  human or vibrators touch and can help us feel connected to a remote partner.  But at the same time, they are leaving us more exposed.  Lately there has been a lawsuit against WeVib collecting private data from users' apps like  body temperatures, most used settings and how many times it has been used.  The subject of this sex toys data safety raises a lot of questions like what happens  if someone hacks your sex toy and operates it from afar?  Would it be considered as a sexual assault?  But not all sex toys are penetrative.  There are some more subtle and erotic toys like Wisp, which is a sex toy jewelry that  enriches foreplay by light central touch, like wind and a rousing smell.  The Kissinger is a device that lets you kiss your partner from afar and the Pillow Talk  let you hear your partner's heartbeat while you sleep.  I'm not sure how many people will use these toys, but I love the fact that they are challenging  their perception of sex by focusing on the foreplay and not the orgasm.  Sex doesn't have to be about trying to get into a certain goal and who says you need  to stop after you reach this goal.  For instance, if I go to a restaurant, I feel obliged to eat a main course, but what if  I just want a starter or just a dessert?  The important thing is just enjoying your food together.  Another type of object we use for sex are robots.  Machines designed to look like men, women, or children to use as sex toys or substitute  for human partners.  Today sex robots are in development, but very realistic looking sex dolls are on the market  for a few thousand dollars.  Human-like objects might have very negative implications as said in the campaign against  sex robots led by academics, Caitlin Richardson and Eric Bealing.  They think the development of sex robots should be stopped because it will cause further objectification  of women and children.  They believe it will only cause more apathy towards people and worsen the violence and  power structures in society.  In her article in the defense of sex machines, Dr. Kate Devlin, computer researcher, says  that sex robots can be much more than an imitation of a human body.  Sex robots are now designed by men for men, like most technologies we use today.  But we can design them in any way that will help us explore sexuality without human restrictions.  The machine is a clean slate that enables us to rethink about our ideas about sex and  gender.  So are these objects going to replace human sex or relationships?  A partner that is always there for you and will never hurt your feelings or reject you  is attempting idea for a lot of people.  Like creating deep intimacy is a mutual process that these robots aren't capable of yet.  Trudy Barber even thinks the machines would enable people to greater appreciate the real  thing.  Porn hub porn site statistics showed in 2016 there were more than 91 billion porn videos  watched by 64 million visitors every day.  The problem starts when people watch mainstream porn like a realistic portrayal of sex.  When they have sex and see that not all women like it when you come under a face and not  all men can have an erection for an hour and a half, they think something is wrong about  them.  More and more young men can't orgasm through penetration because they are so used to masturbating  to porn.  They lose the ability to fantasize and when they focus on just one person, they can't  come.  Cindy Gallup recognized this negative influence of mainstream porn when she dated younger  men and she decided to open a website called make love not porn to disprove porn myths  by showing the differences between porn and real sex.  Later she added a video sharing platform that celebrates real world sex.  Anyone can upload the videos to the site, all videos are watched and curated and the performers  get paid.  The performer are normal people doing their normal sexual activity.  So you get to see things you normally don't see on porn like emotions and intimacy.  And the performers also say that uploading videos to the site is a transformative process  for them.  It's helping them improve their self-esteem and their relationships with their partners.  Another site showing sex in a different way is beautiful agony that was made by Richard  Lawrence and Lauren O'Olley when they got frustrated by boring mainstream porn.  On beautiful agony you can watch people masturbate but you can only see them from the shoulders  up.  Unlike mainstream porn when we can see everything, beautiful agony let us imagine trying to show  that eroticism isn't only in their naked body but also in the face.  I said that is true.  It's not the death, it's the life.  I masturbate on average about twice a day, morning and night.  And my orgasms are all different, each one of them I don't think I've ever had one that's  been the same as the other.  The wanking is the big part.  I mean feminine, soft masturbation, etc.  It vibrates.  One of the things I get off on most is watching a girl do her thing.  You know she knows what she wants and she's in the process of getting it.  I heard about beautiful agony when I was in high school and to my insecure teenage self  it was an amazing revelation.  It wasn't just hot, it was funny, weird and sometimes sad but most of all it made me realize  that I'm okay and that there's a huge variety of O-faces.  With VR being the buzz world in tech today, the world of porn is no exception.  One published that VR porn had 38 million searches in 2016.  And Badoink VR porn site gave another interesting statistic that while 94% of the viewers are  men, 30% of the viewers downloaded videos from a woman's perspective.  Most of VR porn is filmed through a first person point of view.  The users feel like they're inside the actor's body.  VR gives men the opportunity to look at the world and experience sex through a woman's  perspective and vice versa.  Seeing things from a different gender, skin color or body type might help to change the  way we think.  But at the moment the variety of performers in VR porn is just the same as in mainstream  porn.  She's almost none.  Her immersive experience can also have a therapeutic importance.  Virtual sexology was made with the guidance of a sexual therapist and combined VR and  telediltonics to help people deal with sexual dysfunctions and teach them techniques that  will make them better lovers.  It can be a way for people that don't have any sexual experience to learn about sex in  the human body and hopefully take this knowledge into the real world.  VR can let you experience things you can't do in real life and make fantasies come true.  But surprisingly, people aren't looking for that.  Annali, president of two adult entertainment companies, says that consumers want to have  the girlfriend experience.  They're moving away from the more fake plastic porn image and they want to see where the  girl is kissing you and looking in your eyes and telling you how much she wants to be with  you.  For example, in sleep with Miku, you can sleep next to an animated character in VR.  Hear her breathe and make soft noises while she sleeps.  If you move a lot in bed, she will wake up and ask you if everything is okay.  And she can also wake you up in the morning.  At the moment, most of the content in VR porn is just as harmful as in mainstream porn.  VR immersive abilities might even have greater consequences over the way we perceive sex  because it is so vivid.  But done in a different way, VR porn can also create a safe place for people to learn about  sex, try a different body, or experience intimacy in a more realistic way.  It's enough to look at people trying VR porn for the first time to understand that it can  become one of the most important innovations in sex tech.  Oh my God!  Wait, was that me?  She's masturbating in front of me.  She's on a table, it looks like.  She seems like she's into it.  So that's good.  Well, I see really big boobs right there and right there and then like, oh my God, okay.  Oh, it's me.  I am the boss.  This is brilliant.  I guess my hands have started touching her, but basically my legs are spread like this,  or my virtual legs are.  And then her head's between my legs and she's just licking my vulva.  Looks like some type of pet house.  I see two girls having a dildo, they're double-sided.  Oh God, hold on.  I'm the one who's, someone's doing something to.  This is not what I expected.  My abs don't look like that, I've got a lot more chest hair.  And this chick I want to marry.  My abs have never looked so good though.  That's for damn sure.  I see some tits.  Yeah, I also have awesome tits.  My boobs are like really perky.  They're like up here.  How do I have like an innie on my nipple?  Look at you, she's so thick.  Yeah, this is definitely way more in my face than regular porn.  Am I about to put it in her butt?  So seriously, when was the last time porn made you this happy?  When we talk about sex games, we usually talk about online games that look like the  Sims sexy version.  The player can design an avatar, chat with different avatars and have sex in different  positions.  But I want to talk about a few apps that take the games into the real world.  So Desire is a game for couples that uses gamification to spice up their relationships.  You can challenge your partner in different categories like clothes, outside, at the office,  etc.  When both finish your challenge, you earn points that allow you to level up and unlock  harder tasks.  Desire is different from other sex apps because its creators want users to reduce phone interaction.  The app doesn't require you to check the phone while playing and a lot of the dares are  done face to face.  The second thing is that new dares are created every day by the online user community, enabling  users to get ideas from other people's creative, sexy minds and share their own.  Paraphit is another app used in gamification but for a different purpose.  Artem Rodionov with the help of professional physiotherapists created a pelvic floor sensor  wirelessly connected to a smartphone which helps you tone up your pelvic floor muscles.  One of every four women suffers from pelvic floor muscles problems that can cause urinary  incontinence and also affect sex life.  Practicing floor muscles can also lead to stronger orgasms and longer sex for men and  women.  So using Paraphit, women can practice contracting their pelvic floor muscles by playing a simple  game where the vagina is the controller.  My favorite is OMGES.  It was founded by Lydia Denyeller and Rob Perkins working with different researchers  and it's meant to teach men and women how to reach a female orgasm.  When it comes to pleasure, like actual techniques and what works for women, there's never been  any large scale research done.  We decided to change all that.  In partnership with researchers at Indiana University and the Kinsey Institute, we did  the first ever large scale study to understand the specific ways different women find pleasure.  What we found is that lots of women share similar techniques, some of which didn't even  have names yet.  Kind of like ingredients that combine in different ways to achieve more pleasure and better orgasms.  So we made OMGES to put it all out in the open.  These techniques come from the collective experience of over 2,000 women ages 18 to 95.  That's a lot of experience.  It's a completely new approach, refreshingly honest and direct, so that women, men and  couples can explore ways to make a great thing even better.  So when I told my friends about this site, they were so disappointed and said that everyone  knows about the clitoris and why don't I ever show them something interesting?  Well, no.  A lot of women are scared or disgusted by the revolva or never even looked at it.  When I was working at a website for teenage girls, I got a lot of questions like this  one sent to me by a 13-year-old girl.  Hi, I don't know how to ask this, so I'll just be direct.  They're always writing about masturbation and I want to try it.  The problem is I don't know how.  If I want to masturbate, should I be completely naked or just without my pants and underwear?  So it doesn't really matter what you wear when you learn how to masturbate, but it is  very important to know that 71% of women orgasm through clitoral stimulation and not penetrative  sex.  Today and clitoral stimulation are essential for female orgasm and it's a problem when  you or your partner don't know what the clitoris is.  On OMDS, you can learn the different components of a clitoral technique.  You can watch interviews with women and watch each woman perform one of the techniques on  herself.  And finally, the fun part, an interactive touch screen where you can try yourself on  a virtual image of each woman's vulva.  Many porn videos show female masturbation, but OMDS showing it for women's own empowerment  and pleasure.  These games can help us learn more and improve our sex life in a fun and funny way.  But in the end, really good sex starts with communication.  Talking about sex isn't easy for most people.  In movies, no one talks during sex and they all magically know what to do, but in real  life, we need to overcome our shyness.  You know how many times I've practiced just on saying penis and vulva so it was so natural?  So technology can help us create a different type of intimacy that is not going to replace  the one we have today, but enable new sexual experiences.  Same technology for sex can be a complex thing since it can be alienating and create intimacy  in the same time.  So as consumers and creators, I think it is important to try and find the exceptional  products that might show the way for a more feminist sex positive and educational sex  tech.  All through the ages, our sexuality has been suppressed and repressed by religion, tradition,  government and other power structures.  Technology can be another tool for oppression, but it can also be used as a tool for sexual  liberation.  We can use sex tech to teach about sex.  We can use it to help people talk more about this subject.  We can use it as a tool for self-discovery without human restrictions.  We can use it to ask questions about the way we have sex.  We can use it as a tool to help people with sexual dysfunction, disabilities or people  that don't have any sexual experiences.  And we can use it to have delicious, funny, pleasurable, messy, wonderful sex.  Thank you.  Thank you.  There is time for one, let's say two questions.  If you make it brief.  I think there was a lot of input, but maybe the audience is quite shy.  Yeah, just maybe start over.  I think, thank you for your talk.  Very interesting.  I was wondering, do you think there's a difference when it comes to sex toys for heterosexual  and homosexual people?  Yeah.  There are almost no toys specifically for homosexual people at the moment.  It's one of the things companies should think about.  As I said, they focus on the mainstream community and mostly on straight men and women, where  the main consumers, so this is their interest at the moment.  It could be like also helping transgenders in sexuality.  Sure.  Now there's like only, I know only one sex story for transgenders, which is amazing,  but sure, we need more of them.  Thank you.  Maybe a second question.  Hi, thank you for the talk.  I was wondering when you do sex education with young teenagers and people like that,  how do you approach their parents or do their parents approach you and what kind of questions  do they ask and maybe do you have some recommendations how parents can approach these topics with  their children?  I'll ask the last question because it's most important is known that when parents talk  with their children about sex, it makes the teenagers have sex later in life and have  less dangerous sexual activity.  So just talking about this subject, opening it up and making sure that your kids know  that it's okay to talk to you about this subject and nothing bad will happen to them  and they can share things with you is the most important thing.  Thank you.  It's 44, I think we have to wrap it up, but you'll be staying here I guess for maybe  more private questions on the matter.  Thank you.  Maya.  Thank you.  You're welcome.  Girls thank you.  Very interesting.  Thank you.
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So, hi, I'm Maya, and I'm a performance artist, and I deal with digital performance and mediated intimacy, and I also work as a sex educator. And today I'm going to talk about sexuality and technology. I have been interested in sexuality since I was a kid, and actually when I was five years old, I told my dad that when I grow up, I want to be a prostitute. He wasn't pleased to say the least. But how did five years old me even know what a prostitute was, and thought that it's my dream job? It might be because we live in a society overflowing with sexuality. Advertisements sell sex and objectify our bodies, movies show us, and kids watch porn from as early as nine years old. But even though we are exposed to sex all the time, talking about it is still a taboo. I wanted to give this talk not just because it's a fun subject, and I get to say vulva on stage, but because talking about it subject openly makes people feel more comfortable to talk about it themselves. And the other thing, that we're used to seeing technology as the killer of intimacy, but since technology is here to stay, it's important for me to establish a more feminist sex positive and educational view. Feminist, because the sex tech industry is dominated by men who are the main creators and consumers. And digital technology can become a platform where women are a purpose and not a mean. Though it's a controversial subject in feminist theory, I believe that there can be such thing as positive feminist porn, and that it's an important thing. Sex positive is the idea that sex is good as long as it's consensual, and that everyone should have the right to enjoy sexual pleasure the way they wanted without being judged or tolerates slut shaming. And educational, because having an honest, informative, and non-judgmental sex education is necessary for people's health and happiness. So today I'm going to start talking about sexuality and technology and how technology affects our sex life, and then show products and projects I'm interested in in the field of sex tech. But what is sex tech? Cindy Gallup, the founder of Make Love Not Porn website, sex tech advocate and past Republican speaker, defines sex tech as any form of technology or sex venture that enhances, innovates and disrupts in any area of human sexuality and sexual experience. Dr. Trudy Barber, researching the impact of technology on our sexuality, says that since we have disconnected sex for pleasure and sex reproduction, we started seeing sex as a form of entertainment. And the world of adult entertainment is worth a lot. Today the porn industry is worth more than $97 billion. And just like any other big industry, they target the mainstream audience, straight men and women. I want to find out whether in this profit-driven field, I can find products and projects that challenge in reach and teach us something new about sex. Technology and sexuality are supposedly opposing things, but when we use technology to create intimacy, the result is much more complicated than that. On the one hand, it's easier to get to know new partners using dating sites and apps. You can also connect more easily with people who have the same sexual interests in you, and Wi-Fi connected sex toys help us feel closer to remote partners. On the other hand, a research published this year showed that young people in the US have less sex now than in the past. One of the reasons the researchers suggested was the social changes caused by the technological progress and mostly social networks and online streaming. So we can use technology to have more sex and better sex, but technology is also disconnecting us from each other. And this tension exists even in all the products I'm going to talk about today. So we chose to focus on three main fields of sex tech, sex toys, porn and games. And in these fields, I'm going to talk about projects and ideas that warmed my heart and other parts. After smart homes and cars, sex toys are also getting connected to the web, and it's called telediltonics. For example, Wi-Fi makes vibrators operated by an app, and the Kiro is a set of toys you can use to feel each other's movements from afar. Fuck, it's pretty good. Shit. It doesn't feel like sex and it doesn't feel like wanking either. It's just, it's like totally different. With less effort than wanking, is there a way to make this go faster? It's lagging. Oh no. Oh no. Wait, why is it stopped? Oh no, sorry. Now the video is gone. The video is gone. It just says input HDMI. The technicality is of fucking future porn. Fuck. Shit, it's weird. It's halfway in between actually having sex with someone and just having a wank in this weird virtual space in between. It's really strange. Really strange. Sorry. So when they work, telediltonics can give us a unique sensation that's different from human or vibrators touch and can help us feel connected to a remote partner. But at the same time, they are leaving us more exposed. Lately there has been a lawsuit against WeVib collecting private data from users' apps like body temperatures, most used settings and how many times it has been used. The subject of this sex toys data safety raises a lot of questions like what happens if someone hacks your sex toy and operates it from afar? Would it be considered as a sexual assault? But not all sex toys are penetrative. There are some more subtle and erotic toys like Wisp, which is a sex toy jewelry that enriches foreplay by light central touch, like wind and a rousing smell. The Kissinger is a device that lets you kiss your partner from afar and the Pillow Talk let you hear your partner's heartbeat while you sleep. I'm not sure how many people will use these toys, but I love the fact that they are challenging their perception of sex by focusing on the foreplay and not the orgasm. Sex doesn't have to be about trying to get into a certain goal and who says you need to stop after you reach this goal. For instance, if I go to a restaurant, I feel obliged to eat a main course, but what if I just want a starter or just a dessert? The important thing is just enjoying your food together. Another type of object we use for sex are robots. Machines designed to look like men, women, or children to use as sex toys or substitute for human partners. Today sex robots are in development, but very realistic looking sex dolls are on the market for a few thousand dollars. Human-like objects might have very negative implications as said in the campaign against sex robots led by academics, Caitlin Richardson and Eric Bealing. They think the development of sex robots should be stopped because it will cause further objectification of women and children. They believe it will only cause more apathy towards people and worsen the violence and power structures in society. In her article in the defense of sex machines, Dr. Kate Devlin, computer researcher, says that sex robots can be much more than an imitation of a human body. Sex robots are now designed by men for men, like most technologies we use today. But we can design them in any way that will help us explore sexuality without human restrictions. The machine is a clean slate that enables us to rethink about our ideas about sex and gender. So are these objects going to replace human sex or relationships? A partner that is always there for you and will never hurt your feelings or reject you is attempting idea for a lot of people. Like creating deep intimacy is a mutual process that these robots aren't capable of yet. Trudy Barber even thinks the machines would enable people to greater appreciate the real thing. Porn hub porn site statistics showed in 2016 there were more than 91 billion porn videos watched by 64 million visitors every day. The problem starts when people watch mainstream porn like a realistic portrayal of sex. When they have sex and see that not all women like it when you come under a face and not all men can have an erection for an hour and a half, they think something is wrong about them. More and more young men can't orgasm through penetration because they are so used to masturbating to porn. They lose the ability to fantasize and when they focus on just one person, they can't come. Cindy Gallup recognized this negative influence of mainstream porn when she dated younger men and she decided to open a website called make love not porn to disprove porn myths by showing the differences between porn and real sex. Later she added a video sharing platform that celebrates real world sex. Anyone can upload the videos to the site, all videos are watched and curated and the performers get paid. The performer are normal people doing their normal sexual activity. So you get to see things you normally don't see on porn like emotions and intimacy. And the performers also say that uploading videos to the site is a transformative process for them. It's helping them improve their self-esteem and their relationships with their partners. Another site showing sex in a different way is beautiful agony that was made by Richard Lawrence and Lauren O'Olley when they got frustrated by boring mainstream porn. On beautiful agony you can watch people masturbate but you can only see them from the shoulders up. Unlike mainstream porn when we can see everything, beautiful agony let us imagine trying to show that eroticism isn't only in their naked body but also in the face. I said that is true. It's not the death, it's the life. I masturbate on average about twice a day, morning and night. And my orgasms are all different, each one of them I don't think I've ever had one that's been the same as the other. The wanking is the big part. I mean feminine, soft masturbation, etc. It vibrates. One of the things I get off on most is watching a girl do her thing. You know she knows what she wants and she's in the process of getting it. I heard about beautiful agony when I was in high school and to my insecure teenage self it was an amazing revelation. It wasn't just hot, it was funny, weird and sometimes sad but most of all it made me realize that I'm okay and that there's a huge variety of O-faces. With VR being the buzz world in tech today, the world of porn is no exception. One published that VR porn had 38 million searches in 2016. And Badoink VR porn site gave another interesting statistic that while 94% of the viewers are men, 30% of the viewers downloaded videos from a woman's perspective. Most of VR porn is filmed through a first person point of view. The users feel like they're inside the actor's body. VR gives men the opportunity to look at the world and experience sex through a woman's perspective and vice versa. Seeing things from a different gender, skin color or body type might help to change the way we think. But at the moment the variety of performers in VR porn is just the same as in mainstream porn. She's almost none. Her immersive experience can also have a therapeutic importance. Virtual sexology was made with the guidance of a sexual therapist and combined VR and telediltonics to help people deal with sexual dysfunctions and teach them techniques that will make them better lovers. It can be a way for people that don't have any sexual experience to learn about sex in the human body and hopefully take this knowledge into the real world. VR can let you experience things you can't do in real life and make fantasies come true. But surprisingly, people aren't looking for that. Annali, president of two adult entertainment companies, says that consumers want to have the girlfriend experience. They're moving away from the more fake plastic porn image and they want to see where the girl is kissing you and looking in your eyes and telling you how much she wants to be with you. For example, in sleep with Miku, you can sleep next to an animated character in VR. Hear her breathe and make soft noises while she sleeps. If you move a lot in bed, she will wake up and ask you if everything is okay. And she can also wake you up in the morning. At the moment, most of the content in VR porn is just as harmful as in mainstream porn. VR immersive abilities might even have greater consequences over the way we perceive sex because it is so vivid. But done in a different way, VR porn can also create a safe place for people to learn about sex, try a different body, or experience intimacy in a more realistic way. It's enough to look at people trying VR porn for the first time to understand that it can become one of the most important innovations in sex tech. Oh my God! Wait, was that me? She's masturbating in front of me. She's on a table, it looks like. She seems like she's into it. So that's good. Well, I see really big boobs right there and right there and then like, oh my God, okay. Oh, it's me. I am the boss. This is brilliant. I guess my hands have started touching her, but basically my legs are spread like this, or my virtual legs are. And then her head's between my legs and she's just licking my vulva. Looks like some type of pet house. I see two girls having a dildo, they're double-sided. Oh God, hold on. I'm the one who's, someone's doing something to. This is not what I expected. My abs don't look like that, I've got a lot more chest hair. And this chick I want to marry. My abs have never looked so good though. That's for damn sure. I see some tits. Yeah, I also have awesome tits. My boobs are like really perky. They're like up here. How do I have like an innie on my nipple? Look at you, she's so thick. Yeah, this is definitely way more in my face than regular porn. Am I about to put it in her butt? So seriously, when was the last time porn made you this happy? When we talk about sex games, we usually talk about online games that look like the Sims sexy version. The player can design an avatar, chat with different avatars and have sex in different positions. But I want to talk about a few apps that take the games into the real world. So Desire is a game for couples that uses gamification to spice up their relationships. You can challenge your partner in different categories like clothes, outside, at the office, etc. When both finish your challenge, you earn points that allow you to level up and unlock harder tasks. Desire is different from other sex apps because its creators want users to reduce phone interaction. The app doesn't require you to check the phone while playing and a lot of the dares are done face to face. The second thing is that new dares are created every day by the online user community, enabling users to get ideas from other people's creative, sexy minds and share their own. Paraphit is another app used in gamification but for a different purpose. Artem Rodionov with the help of professional physiotherapists created a pelvic floor sensor wirelessly connected to a smartphone which helps you tone up your pelvic floor muscles. One of every four women suffers from pelvic floor muscles problems that can cause urinary incontinence and also affect sex life. Practicing floor muscles can also lead to stronger orgasms and longer sex for men and women. So using Paraphit, women can practice contracting their pelvic floor muscles by playing a simple game where the vagina is the controller. My favorite is OMGES. It was founded by Lydia Denyeller and Rob Perkins working with different researchers and it's meant to teach men and women how to reach a female orgasm. When it comes to pleasure, like actual techniques and what works for women, there's never been any large scale research done. We decided to change all that. In partnership with researchers at Indiana University and the Kinsey Institute, we did the first ever large scale study to understand the specific ways different women find pleasure. What we found is that lots of women share similar techniques, some of which didn't even have names yet. Kind of like ingredients that combine in different ways to achieve more pleasure and better orgasms. So we made OMGES to put it all out in the open. These techniques come from the collective experience of over 2,000 women ages 18 to 95. That's a lot of experience. It's a completely new approach, refreshingly honest and direct, so that women, men and couples can explore ways to make a great thing even better. So when I told my friends about this site, they were so disappointed and said that everyone knows about the clitoris and why don't I ever show them something interesting? Well, no. A lot of women are scared or disgusted by the revolva or never even looked at it. When I was working at a website for teenage girls, I got a lot of questions like this one sent to me by a 13-year-old girl. Hi, I don't know how to ask this, so I'll just be direct. They're always writing about masturbation and I want to try it. The problem is I don't know how. If I want to masturbate, should I be completely naked or just without my pants and underwear? So it doesn't really matter what you wear when you learn how to masturbate, but it is very important to know that 71% of women orgasm through clitoral stimulation and not penetrative sex. Today and clitoral stimulation are essential for female orgasm and it's a problem when you or your partner don't know what the clitoris is. On OMDS, you can learn the different components of a clitoral technique. You can watch interviews with women and watch each woman perform one of the techniques on herself. And finally, the fun part, an interactive touch screen where you can try yourself on a virtual image of each woman's vulva. Many porn videos show female masturbation, but OMDS showing it for women's own empowerment and pleasure. These games can help us learn more and improve our sex life in a fun and funny way. But in the end, really good sex starts with communication. Talking about sex isn't easy for most people. In movies, no one talks during sex and they all magically know what to do, but in real life, we need to overcome our shyness. You know how many times I've practiced just on saying penis and vulva so it was so natural? So technology can help us create a different type of intimacy that is not going to replace the one we have today, but enable new sexual experiences. Same technology for sex can be a complex thing since it can be alienating and create intimacy in the same time. So as consumers and creators, I think it is important to try and find the exceptional products that might show the way for a more feminist sex positive and educational sex tech. All through the ages, our sexuality has been suppressed and repressed by religion, tradition, government and other power structures. Technology can be another tool for oppression, but it can also be used as a tool for sexual liberation. We can use sex tech to teach about sex. We can use it to help people talk more about this subject. We can use it as a tool for self-discovery without human restrictions. We can use it to ask questions about the way we have sex. We can use it as a tool to help people with sexual dysfunction, disabilities or people that don't have any sexual experiences. And we can use it to have delicious, funny, pleasurable, messy, wonderful sex. Thank you. Thank you. There is time for one, let's say two questions. If you make it brief. I think there was a lot of input, but maybe the audience is quite shy. Yeah, just maybe start over. I think, thank you for your talk. Very interesting. I was wondering, do you think there's a difference when it comes to sex toys for heterosexual and homosexual people? Yeah. There are almost no toys specifically for homosexual people at the moment. It's one of the things companies should think about. As I said, they focus on the mainstream community and mostly on straight men and women, where the main consumers, so this is their interest at the moment. It could be like also helping transgenders in sexuality. Sure. Now there's like only, I know only one sex story for transgenders, which is amazing, but sure, we need more of them. Thank you. Maybe a second question. Hi, thank you for the talk. I was wondering when you do sex education with young teenagers and people like that, how do you approach their parents or do their parents approach you and what kind of questions do they ask and maybe do you have some recommendations how parents can approach these topics with their children? I'll ask the last question because it's most important is known that when parents talk with their children about sex, it makes the teenagers have sex later in life and have less dangerous sexual activity. So just talking about this subject, opening it up and making sure that your kids know that it's okay to talk to you about this subject and nothing bad will happen to them and they can share things with you is the most important thing. Thank you. It's 44, I think we have to wrap it up, but you'll be staying here I guess for maybe more private questions on the matter. Thank you. Maya. Thank you. You're welcome. Girls thank you. Very interesting. Thank you.
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