It’s time for the world’s largest internet conference, SXSW Interactive 2012 in Austin, Texas. I will be there from (today) Thursday March 8 through Wednesday, and I am there primarily to be a brat. I’m also doing stuff like interviews and podcasts with various media outlets (like MSNBC, who did great coverage of my huge Sex at SXSW talk last year).
If you want to keep up with me the best way is either on my Twitter, my Facebook page, or just for photoblogging and galleries, Daily Violet. I plan to be as NSFW and problematic as possible. Outside of my personal channels, I’ll be covering bits and pieces with my usual happy-go-lucky attitude for CBS Interactive mostly on Pulp Tech.
Below is a list of SXSW sex tips, safer sex info, geek flirting tricks, sex-relevant (like privacy) panels/talks in this year’s lineup, sexual health and sex emergency resources in Austin.
If you see me hanging out at SXSW, come say hi! I have NSFW stickers for you, just ask :D
Alternately, if you see me running at SXSW, please shoot me with a Thorazine dart gun.
SXSW Interactive 2012 relative to sex, porn, LGBT and erotica
Highly recommended: Sched’s Unofficial SXSWi 2012 Guide – and where you’ll see unofficial events also listed/linked at the top for non-badgers. (My Sched is here.)
- The anti-porn panel: Sex on the Web: The Sabotage of Relationships? – Friday March 9, 2012 2:00pm-3:00pm
- EFF meets Without My Consent: Debate: Should Social Sites Allow Anonymous Users? – Saturday March 10, 2012 11:00am-12:00pm (disclosure: I am an advisor for WMC)
- ePublishing Meet Up – Saturday March 10, 2012 11:00am-12:00pm
- LGBT Meet Up – Saturday March 10, 2012 3:30pm-4:30pm
- #SXsingle Meet Up – Saturday March 10, 2012 5:00pm-6:00pm
- Sex Nets: Pickup Artists vs. Feminists – Saturday March 10, 2012 6:30pm-7:30pm
- Porn’s Democratization: Opportunity & Risk Collide – Sunday March 11, 2012 9:30am-10:30am
- Do not miss: Security and Privacy in Social Networks – Sunday March 11, 2012 5:00pm-6:00pm
- Sex, Lies and Cookies: Web Privacy EXPOSED! – Monday March 12, 2012 12:30pm-1:30pm
- Sex, Dating and Privacy Online (disclosure: I am on this panel) – Monday March 12, 2012 5:00pm-6:00pm
- En/Forced Femme: Sex Workers and Social Media – Monday March 12, 2012 6:30pm-7:30pm
- This Talk Is NSFW: Nudity and Online Journalism – Tuesday March 13, 2012 5:00pm-6:00pm
SXSexy for the shy
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- Learn Flirting for Geeks: Listen to the audio version of Flirting for Geeks: click here for MP3.
- Peruse Safer Sex and Risk Assessment Charts (link is mobile friendly)
- Read explicit SXSW Erotica.
- Explicit erotic SXSW short story: Knowing the Market by Alison Tyler (Audio: MP3)
An ice queen marketing executive and a boyish girl programmer meet in a Hilton elevator: the room service menu will surprise you. - Explicit erotic SXSW short story: Sharing Trends by Alison Tyler (Audio: MP3)
His session just started: and she’s hoping theirs will start ASAP. A dirty oral tale about geeks getting lucky. - Explicit erotic SXSW short story: Autocorrect This by Alison Tyler (Audio: MP3)
Accidental dirty-talk text message turns into sizzling SXSW three-way? In your dreams, pal.
Austin sexuality resources
- Lipstick 24 (Austin’s lesbian club/lounge, lipstick24austin.com)
606 East 7th Street : 512-414-2950 - Midtowne Spa Austin (gay/bi bathhouse, midtowne.com)
5815 Airport Blvd : 512-302-9696 - Oilcan Harry’s (legendary gay bar for all genders, oilcanharrys.com)
211 West 4th Street : 512-320-8823 - Gay Austin (clubs, events, more, austin.gaycities.com)
All Austin Planned Parenthood locations offer the morning after pill, complete STD/STI testing, diagnosis and treatment (for all genders, men welcome). They also do UTI (urinary tract infection) testing and treatment, and no one will be turned away due to a lack of money. Their walk-in services (no appointment) include Emergency Contraception (EC, morning after pill), Pregnancy Testing, and Sexually Transmitted Infection Testing. North and South Austin locations offer rape crisis counseling referrals and states, “If you can’t make it in to a Planned Parenthood health center, you may be able to get emergency contraception at a nearby pharmacy.”
- Planned Parenthood downtown Austin (plannedparenthood.org)
1823 E. 7th Street : 512-477-5846 (closed Saturday and Sunday) - Planned Parenthood North Austin (plannedparenthood.org)
9041 Research Blvd, #250 : 512-331-128 (closed Sunday, short hours Saturday) - Planned Parenthood South Austin (plannedparenthood.org)
201 E. Ben White Blvd. : 512-276-8000 (closed Sunday, short hours Saturday)
Also:
- Austin’s Live Oak Pharmacy (LGBT friendly)
- Austin sexual assault and domestic violence help center, 24-hours, hospital accompaniment, legal assistance: SafePlace.org : 512-267-SAFE (512-267-7233)
- Austin police victims services 24-hour helpline: 512-472-HELP (512-472-4357)
Hello Violet,
I hope the trip is super fun, your usual posts and techsex news are certainly missed while you are away!
Chris