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Samantha Cole in Conversation With Andi Zeisler
December 6, 2022 @ 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm
FreeFrom the moment there was an “online,” there was sex online. The famous test image used by software engineers to develop formats like the jpeg was “Lena,” taken from Playboy’s November 1972 centerfold. Early bulletin boards and multi-user domains quickly came to serve their members sexual musings. Facebook started as a way to rate “hot or not” Harvard co-eds. In fact, virtually every significant development that defines the Internet we know and love (and hate) today — privacy issues, online payments and online banking, dating, social media, streaming technology, mass data collection — came about through the meeting of sexuality and technology. And the kicker is, not only did sexuality vastly influence the Internet, but the Internet arguably changed modern human sexuality by giving every imaginable non-hetereonormative community a place to explore, fantasize, thrive, and be accepted. A lively, highly visual history, filled with broad themes and backstories, pioneering personalities and eureka-moments, Vice Motherboard senior staff writer Samantha Cole’s How Sex Changed the Internet and the Internet Changed Sex (Workman) is a short, serious, and highly entertaining look at the intertwining convergence of sex and the Internet. Cole will be joined in conversation by Andi Zeisler, Bitch Media cofounder and author of We Were Feminists Once.