It’s an interview you don’t want to miss: one of my all-time favorite hero sex educators Cory Silverberginterviews me (and hilariously, vice-versa) for Studio SXSWi. In the glass cube in front of a sizable audience — and audio broadcast to the whole convention floor — we talk, laugh and get serious about many urgent pertinent sexual topics we all face today as individuals online.
Sexual privacy (and especially personal privacy) is a huge point of conversation — we examine how hard it is to maintain if someone is really out to harass, hurt and is out to get you. Also, we look at the right an individual has to privacy (we do have that right, hello corporations), and the fact that just because people have sex lives visible to the public (whether exhibitionistic, professional or simply by the mere fact of being a sexual minority such as LGBT or female) does not mean someone “deserves” to have their privacy violated, to be stalked or harassed, or that they are “asking for it”. Cory and I talk about how sexually savvy kids are more hip to predators than adults are online, and how online safer sex should be part of every preventative/risk assessment sex ed curriculum. We discuss the continuum of sex and gender play that the internet’s anonymity allows us to try out, as opposed to real life where sexual identity and gender are still physically dangerous to experiment with — among many other fascinating topics.
And I’ll add as a personal note that we all have a right to privacy as much as to free speech, and the two should not be confused should a stalker, harasser or cyberbully attempt to cloak character attacks, hate speech, privacy threats, and continuing harassing conduct against *anyone* and claim first amendment protections to garner free reign on targeting individuals for purposeful and ongoing attacks. This is the new direction of fighting for sexual privacy, folks — which is at the core of human privacy protections and rights, at least in this country. Oh, and did I mention that the video is really fun and funny? We even talk about twatwaffles. Enjoy… Thank you SXSWi.
Violet, an old post of yours, I know, but regarding privacy…I saw the following in the Wall Street Journal today and I found it very disturbing: “When the Police Go Through Your Email: Quirk of Search Law Sets Off Alarm Bells”
When you look at your BlackBerry, you see a gadget full of important email, contacts and other files. Increasingly, authorities see admissible evidence.
In a small but growing number of cases, customs officials and police officers have been carrying out warrantless searches of the contents of laptops, mobile phones and other wireless devices. This spring, the 9th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals in California ruled that “reasonable suspicion is not needed for customs officials to search a laptop or other personal electronic storage devices at the border,” including international airports.
And in a handful of instances, courts have supported local police interpretations of legal searches to include browsing through phone call lists and text messages on cellphones when they arrest suspects.
Adam Gershowitz, a professor at the South Texas College of Law, argues law enforcement officials are flirting with a dangerous invasion of privacy under the “search incident to arrest” doctrine, which allows officers to search “containers” on the person of or within the reach of suspects without probable cause.
The rest of the article can be found at: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122532444653782321.html?mod=todays_us_page_one
Great! I somehow missed this at SXSW and glad for the chance to catch it. And always nice to see the both of you, even just virtually.
Though now I’m hungry for waffles…
Twa? I’ve never heard ‘twat’ said like it’s French before! You usually find it in downmarket UK porn mags where it would never sound so posh. Always has a good hard ‘t’ sound at the end whenever I’ve heard it. It’s used more as an insult than anything else in the UK. Always preferred ‘minge’ for the sound of the word. And, for cunnilingus, ‘yodelling in the canyon of love’!
Sex (o course), food, and poo. No conversation can be complete with out the three. loved it :)