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New jobs and opportunities in sextech this week
Bryony Cole
April 17, 2024
👋 HEY ALL!
Starting out by celebrating some incredible graduates from Sextech School 🎓🎉
The momentum on their startups and careers after 6 weeks, the self-organising sessions to explore critical topics like decolonising sextech, there's a lot to celebrate in this community.
You can follow these emerging leaders on LinkedIn 👇🎓👇
(of course there's so many grads that choose to stay private and we love that too)
As sextech continues at breakneck speed, I can't stress enough the importance of inviting in global perspective. Our industry needs humans with unique experiences, perspectives and backgrounds - essentially, what makes you, you.
Why do I feel so strongly about this? I spend a lot of time out on the edges of the internet and sometimes it's a tough look. Yesterday I stumbled onto a founder and something he calls called Orifice.ai [NSFW]. 😕 More on this in our news section.
Read on for:
🔥 this week in sextech
💼 job openings
🎪 community events
— Bryony
🔥 THIS WEEK IN SEXTECH
🧪 Viral video ad of AI toy
🤔 Are we ready for AI po*n?
📖 New book explores future of relationships
🏳️🌈 Studies find a link between having older brothers and being gay
When I first saw the video ad for Orifice it depressed me. But there were only a few views, very niche.
Overnight it has clocked to 10 million views, 50 death threats and many comments.
A glance at the founder Bryan's incel perspective unravelling on twitter/X really sent me (and apparently, a lot of others).
Ai women are women.
— Bry.ai (@prince_of_fakes)
2:55 AM • Apr 14, 2024
Ok but before spiralling like I did, head to 404 Media as they do a stellar reporting job on this one, as usual:
Want to read more on this? Futurism just published a piece with the subheading, "We don't even know where to begin with this one."
🤔 Are we ready for AI po*n?
Simon Dubé, PhD and Valérie Lapointe penned this article for The Conversation which identifies the challenges and opportunities for adult entertainment.
More on this from Forbes contributor Bernard Marr 👇🏻
📖 New book explores future of relationships
By 2050, according to AI expert David Levy, it will be both possible and socially acceptable for us to have robot partners, even to marry them...
Dutch Futures-Anthropologist Roanne van Voorst, Ph.D. has tried it so you don't have to (yet) for her new book, Six In A Bed: The Future of Love — From Sex Dolls & Avatars to Polyamory.
For a look at how she went about it, two very different critiques this week:
Robot partners, avatar companions, oxytocin pills: What will love and relationships look like in the future? [Read: 📰 Irish Independent]
Love in a remotely-controlled climate: If we outsource our decisions to machines, we will be less capable of navigating our own feelings [Read: 📰 The Critic]
More of Roanne van Voorst, Ph.D. 's work on her website here.
🏳️🌈 Studies find a link between having older brothers and being gay - Does it matter?
There is a well-documented correlation between having older siblings (older brothers, specifically) and a person's chance of being gay.
At baseline, the chance that someone will be gay is pretty small.
"Somewhere around 2 to 3% — we can call it 2% just for the sake of simplicity," Semenyna says. "The fraternal birth order effect shows that you're going to run into about a 33% increase in the probability of, like, male same-sex attraction for every older brother that you have."
Read or listen to NPR's episode on this:
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🇩🇰 April 30, Copenhagen, Navigating Digital Censorship in Sextech and Femtech, SexTech Nordics [RSVP here]
💻 April 29-May 1 online, S.L.A.M. [RSVP here]
🇺🇸 May 9-15, Atlanta, Frolicon [RSVP here]
🇨🇦 May 22, Toronto, SexTechTO Mixer [RSVP here] Alexandra Friedman
💻 May 27, Online, The Future of Community - Sex Tech Business & Well-being Index Report 2024 hosted by Ola Miedzynska, SxTech eu [RSVP here]
💻 May 23 online, Something Positive for Positive People (SPFPP) [RSVP here]
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— Bryony
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