At right: It’s not porn, it’s the advice vlog The Midwest Teen Sex Show.
In January, San Francisco will be host to a very exciting conference, the first of its kind: Sex::Tech, a conference on youth, technology, sex and HIV/STD prevention. It’s so cool, and I’m already excited to attend. It’s being hosted by local organization ISIS Inc., who I think have been doing some seriously incredible work in the emergent field of tech and sexual health information and prevention.
Sex::Tech is January 22 – 23, 2008 and “will explore available tools and methods for reaching youth with culturally appropriate STD/HIV prevention and sex education interventions from a youth perspective, with input from public health professionals, educators, researchers, and technology developers.” Yaaaayyyy!!! It’s really time. We need this.
Right now, they’re running a scholarship video contest: $3500 for making a video about sex ed, with a deadline of December 31. Winning videos will be shown the first day of the conference. On the same day, creators of the Midwest Teen Sex Show will be showing and hosting a “best of” episodes session, which should be really fun (and funny). The speaker lineup and topics look fantastic! I just noticed while poking through their site that registration is limited to 300 attendees, so I better get my act together. Early reg is $100, and students or under 25 is only $20.
