The Future Sex symposia project

[tsenft]

My colleague Stephen Maddison and I are working to put together the symposia below. We just won a 'pump prime' grant from our university today ('pump prime' is another way of saying, "Here is some internal money to get people to help you write bigger external grants so we don't have to give you any more money.") The best part about this is that I

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[beautifultoxin]

Anything you need for this, Terri, I am delighted to help.

Some of my current thoughts on future sex here (a tad more acidic than I would offer in this context, but I was feeling the end-of-decade thing at the time):

http://www.melissagira.com/2009/12/22/heres-your-fucking-jetpack-the-00s-the-sex-future-that-wasnt/

Do you have a timeline for the symposia?

(I love this the "more details" are on LiveJournal (as they should be).)

[tsenft]

Hiya, M, I'm sure you can see where I'm going to be dragging you in on this just from looking through the panel lineups. Now I am going to read your link :)

[ccjohn]

This is something worthy of study. I'll stick my neck out with an argument: Internet porn, teleconfering, sexting and other innovations seem new but are not. Occom's Razor would suggest to be human is to be driven to sexual connection. The reality that sexual attractiveness and skill at connection is unevenly distributed in the human race makes cultural novelty in the pursuit of sex inevitable. All sex cannot help but be informed by the culture in which it occurs. But to insist sexual behavior is nothing but culture is reductio ad absurdum.

whoops

[ccjohn]

are unevenly distributed ...

[inne]

say hi to stephen from me

[goldfish42]

Hello from a fan in Seattle! I read your journal, but I think you have a lot of folks on here you don't know. I thought you might be interested in a public conference coming up in Seattle.

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