Comments on: Wait, how does this have anything to do with conforming? http://www.beingamberrhea.com/2007/11/14/wait-how-does-this-have-anything-to-do-with-conforming/ Making the baby Jesus cry since 2002. Tue, 02 Dec 2008 19:36:24 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 By: RenegadeEvolution http://www.beingamberrhea.com/2007/11/14/wait-how-does-this-have-anything-to-do-with-conforming/#comment-10219 RenegadeEvolution Thu, 15 Nov 2007 00:51:19 +0000 http://www.beingamberrhea.com/2007/11/14/wait-how-does-this-have-anything-to-do-with-conforming/#comment-10219 Amber: I could be mistaken, but I'm guessing I'm the oldest session leader signed up currently. Amber:

I could be mistaken, but I’m guessing I’m the oldest session leader signed up currently.

]]> By: Amber http://www.beingamberrhea.com/2007/11/14/wait-how-does-this-have-anything-to-do-with-conforming/#comment-10214 Amber Wed, 14 Nov 2007 23:40:02 +0000 http://www.beingamberrhea.com/2007/11/14/wait-how-does-this-have-anything-to-do-with-conforming/#comment-10214 Daisy, I doubt you will be the oldest person there - I know of several other folks close to your age who will be there, some of whom are considering leading a session. Most of them are on the Google list, too. You just might not know their age because they haven't mentioned it. As for who's in the session leader line-up, the people weren't chosen by me or anyone else. Basically, all the people you see on that page are people who said, "I want to lead a session." That's all it takes. If you want to lead one, I highly encourage it! Daisy, I doubt you will be the oldest person there - I know of several other folks close to your age who will be there, some of whom are considering leading a session. Most of them are on the Google list, too. You just might not know their age because they haven’t mentioned it.

As for who’s in the session leader line-up, the people weren’t chosen by me or anyone else. Basically, all the people you see on that page are people who said, “I want to lead a session.” That’s all it takes. If you want to lead one, I highly encourage it!

]]> By: DaisyDeadhead http://www.beingamberrhea.com/2007/11/14/wait-how-does-this-have-anything-to-do-with-conforming/#comment-10210 DaisyDeadhead Wed, 14 Nov 2007 23:18:32 +0000 http://www.beingamberrhea.com/2007/11/14/wait-how-does-this-have-anything-to-do-with-conforming/#comment-10210 Amber, nice link about the Sex 2.0 thing, and I signed up for your list... I am thinking of attending, since I go to Atlanta all the time anyway. But I have to ask: what is the average age of your Sex 2.0 session leaders? Nobody looks over 40, much less 50. People don't stop having sex after menopause, at least I haven't. Will I be the oldest person there and by how much? As for sex being changed by the internet, I see a real age-gap developing, in just this way. I am <i>the only woman I know IRL </i>who is my age that has a blog. I wish I knew what to do about that, but I don't. Amber, nice link about the Sex 2.0 thing, and I signed up for your list… I am thinking of attending, since I go to Atlanta all the time anyway.

But I have to ask: what is the average age of your Sex 2.0 session leaders? Nobody looks over 40, much less 50. People don’t stop having sex after menopause, at least I haven’t.
Will I be the oldest person there and by how much?

As for sex being changed by the internet, I see a real age-gap developing, in just this way. I am the only woman I know IRL who is my age that has a blog. I wish I knew what to do about that, but I don’t.

]]> By: Melissa Gira http://www.beingamberrhea.com/2007/11/14/wait-how-does-this-have-anything-to-do-with-conforming/#comment-10208 Melissa Gira Wed, 14 Nov 2007 22:42:00 +0000 http://www.beingamberrhea.com/2007/11/14/wait-how-does-this-have-anything-to-do-with-conforming/#comment-10208 A quick clarification, as I'm bouncing around today a bit but just saw this: The "bigger-and-more-important" bit is just as much about how sex online is changing -- in all the places the "new (sex) media mafia" don't inhabit so much -- or maybe we do, and we're just not writing about it that much, or my Google Reader is already overloaded and I'm not getting this. I'm talking about teenagers making their own sex ed videos, no matter how dodgy. About women in Middle America on Match.com having hot affairs. About young women in rural areas trying to figure out how to give themselves an abortion at home. About young gay men coming out and looking up to Chris Crocker. About Iraqi women protesting when they are raped -- which I have only seen on videoblogs (Alive in Baghdad), yes -- but also all the "common," "small" things we do relating to sex online all the time. Every Xanga post about love, every podcast with three listeners from the same high school playing a song one of the hosts heard when she first made out with a cutie in her room. As this conversation continues, I'm starting to lose my frustration, and get utopian for sex & new media. And when I find more words, I'll thank you some more. A quick clarification, as I’m bouncing around today a bit but just saw this:

The “bigger-and-more-important” bit is just as much about how sex online is changing — in all the places the “new (sex) media mafia” don’t inhabit so much — or maybe we do, and we’re just not writing about it that much, or my Google Reader is already overloaded and I’m not getting this. I’m talking about teenagers making their own sex ed videos, no matter how dodgy. About women in Middle America on Match.com having hot affairs. About young women in rural areas trying to figure out how to give themselves an abortion at home. About young gay men coming out and looking up to Chris Crocker. About Iraqi women protesting when they are raped — which I have only seen on videoblogs (Alive in Baghdad), yes — but also all the “common,” “small” things we do relating to sex online all the time. Every Xanga post about love, every podcast with three listeners from the same high school playing a song one of the hosts heard when she first made out with a cutie in her room.

As this conversation continues, I’m starting to lose my frustration, and get utopian for sex & new media. And when I find more words, I’ll thank you some more.

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