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We kick off Cohort 17 of Sextech School today! I'm so excited about the incredible mix of humans joining us...from a dating app CEO to journalists, app developers, intimacy coaches, and even a gerontologist. This is exactly what makes this space so electric: cross-pollination between disciplines, generations, and ideas.

And just in time because the sextech headlines this week are wild: 🧠 Gen Z wants hookup rooms at work. 🤖 AI is rewriting the rules of consent. And a worthwhile listen to Cathy Hackl who discusses her Tech Intimacy Scale, a framework assessing how technology influences human connection.

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• 🔥 this week in sextech

• 💼 job openings

• 🎪 events

• 📚 research

• 🎨 art

— Bryony

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🔥 THIS WEEK IN SEXTECH

• 🤖 AI’s War on Women’s Consent: How Tech Fuels Misogyny and Gendered Violence

• 💌 Love in the Age of AI: Navigating Ethics and Authenticity in Tech-Driven Romance

• 🏢 Gen Z Wants Hookup Spaces at Work to Boost Morale and Balance Life

🤖 AI’s War on Women’s Consent: How Tech Fuels Misogyny and Gendered Violence

This piece from The Interpreter is a must-read. It tracks how AI systems, designed mostly without women in the room, are reinforcing gender-based violence, from deepfakes and surveillance to the disturbing rise of AI girlfriends.

With women making up just 22% of the global AI workforce, we’re seeing platforms automate consent, reward dominance, and erase boundaries. The result? A digital world where saying “no” is increasingly treated as a bug, not a right.

🎙️ Love in the Age of AI: Navigating Ethics and Authenticity in Tech-Driven Romance

Listen to this podcast with Cathy Hackl, who is creating the Tech Intimacy Scale, a way to measure how technology either deepens or erodes human connection.

At one end, tech brings us closer together. At the other, it isolates us. Like mine, Cathy’s perspective isn’t anti-tech, it’s about using AI to enhance our humanity. 🎙️ Listen now

🏢 Gen Z Wants Hookup Spaces at Work to Boost Morale and Balance Life

Fast Company reports that 38% of Gen Z workers wish their office had private spaces for sex or self-pleasure. Citing work–life balance and remote-work-era freedom, this generation is challenging old taboos and asking: if we get mental health breaks and smoke breaks, why not sex breaks?

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🎪 EVENTS

🇦🇹 June 9, Austria, PRIDE 2025 Idea Conference, TEDxDonauinsel [RSVP]

🇭🇰 June 16-17, Hong Kong, Women's Health In Focus, A Global Summit with OM Health Hub , FemTech Future Limited , and Asia Society Hong Kong Center Maaike Steinebach [RSVP]

🌐 June 18, Virtual, Smut Slam with Ashleigh Birnbrauer [RSVP]

🌐 June 18, Virtual, Marketing for Entrepreneurs (Sextech & Femtech Founder Friendly), Antonia L. [RSVP]

🇦🇺 July 9, Melbourne Up Late: Pursuits of Pleasure with Alyx Gorman & Georgia Grace [RSVP]

🇬🇧 July 10, London, The Second Coming: Summer Soiree & 2nd Inspiration Showcase [RSVP]

🇨🇦 August 15-17, Montreal, LSR Academic Congress [RSVP]

📚 RESEARCH

New publication 👉 The regulation of sex robots: Gender and sexuality in the era of artificial intelligence 🤖

Carlotta Rigotti, postdoctoral researcher at eLaw, has just published her new monograph, The Regulation of Sex Robots: Gender and Sexuality in the Era of Artificial Intelligence.

Read more about her research here.

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🎨 ART

In Lingfei Shen’s newest series, Intimacy.zip, technology, emotion, and the human body blur into a unified experience. Originally designed as a digitally interactive project, it has since evolved into a thought-provoking fine art installation—sculptural and immersive, challenging the very structure of modern intimacy.

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— Bryony