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The Close and Evolving Relationship between Sex and Technology

By Jenna Owsianik
June 18, 2015
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How does tech affect human sexuality? Or is it the other way around? 

We’re commonly reminded about how sex drives changes in technology, and vice versa. One popular, yet debated theory is that VHS beat out Betamax in the videotape wars because it supported erotic movies, while Betamax refused to license adult filmmakers.

The mass advent of automobiles in the 1920s is also credited for a rise in teenage sex, thanks to the privacy of the backseat.

At our Future of Sex Meetup in Sydney last year, Catharine Lumby, a media scholar from Macquarie University, added to the discussion about sex and technology’s tight connection.

Watch the video below as she speaks about another way transportation influenced how people have sex, and the sexual seeds that helped launch the Internet. The transcript is posted below.

 

“One of my favorite books is a book by Flaubert called the Dictionary of Received Ideas, which was written in the nineteenth century. But if you read it now, it’s still funny. Basically, it’s a dictionary of things that middle-class people say, which are received ideas, bourgeois notions. One of them is about the train, which I reckon is a technology related to sex. The entry under it is, “Monsieur, only yesterday I was in Lyon and then I am now in Paris”—this sort of boasting about being ahead of the curve on technology. But of course, we know that one of the first things people did with trains was have dirty weekends.

“If you look at any technology that’s been invented, pretty much sex is in there really early. We know that porn’s partly funded the Internet… It’s really interesting that human sexuality, like all humanity, does evolve in relation to technology, but we’re not technologically determined.”

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Jenna Owsianik

Jenna Owsianik is a Canadian journalist and sex tech expert. Since 2014 she has been Editor-in-Chief of FutureofSex.net, the world’s leading publication on how technology is changing human sexuality, today and tomorrow.

Jenna is the primary author of the Future of Sex Report (2016).

Her expertise covers state-of-the-art sex technologies and the major fields driving innovations in intimacy: robotics, virtual reality, remote sex (teledildonics), immersive adult entertainment, human augmentation, virtual sex, and sexual health.

A trained journalist with a Masters of Journalism from The University of British Columbia, Jenna’s reporting has appeared on Futurism.com, Al Jazeera English, CTV British Columbia online, CBS Sunday Morning, CBS 60 Minutes, Global News, and CKNW Radio in Canada and the United States.

As a sex tech industry consultant, she is especially passionate about helping companies deliver accessible services and products to people with disabilities and other underserved communities.

Jenna also runs the sites SexforEveryBody.com, a sex-positive, body-positive online magazine that promotes inclusive sex education; and DisabledSexGuide.com, an adult resource on sex, disability, and erotica.

In 2013, Jenna won two Canadian Online Publishing Awards for her work on The Pain Project, a multimedia site on global access to palliative care.

She won second place at the 2011 Awards for Excellence in Health Care Journalism’s Public Health category for her participation in the documentary Freedom From Pain.

Jenna has an Honors BA in Women’s Studies and Feminist Research as well as a French minor from The University of Western Ontario. She spent a year studying at L’Université Lumière Lyon 2 in Lyon, France.
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