{"id":582,"date":"2008-08-31T13:55:29","date_gmt":"2008-08-31T21:55:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/?p=582"},"modified":"2009-04-17T08:15:13","modified_gmt":"2009-04-17T16:15:13","slug":"keynote-talk-at-arse-electronika","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/2008\/08\/31\/keynote-talk-at-arse-electronika\/","title":{"rendered":"Keynote Talk &#8220;What is Sex?&#8221; at Arse Elektronika"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Saturday, September 27, 2008, 1 p.m.<br \/>\nCELLspace \/ 2050 Bryant Street, San Francisco.<br \/>\nRudy gives a keynote talk on \u201cWhat is Sex?\u201d\u009d for <a target=\"blank\" href=\" http:\/\/www.monochrom.at\/arse-elektronika\/about.html\">Arse Elektronika <\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What is Sex?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Each of us is here as a link in a chain of a zillion reproductive sex acts. The pleasures of partnership and the orgasm help make us obsessed with having sex, even if we don\u2019t know or care about reproduction. We might think of sex as any path that leads to orgasm. Note here the difference between sex with a person and, say, sex via pornography. In sex with a person, you\u2019re talking about emotion, the positions of your limbs, touch across large skin areas, tastes, scents and pheromones. In the \u201cartificial sex\u201d\u009d of pornography, you\u2019re talking about visual images, perhaps enhanced by recorded sounds. Amazing how little we\u2019re willing to settle for! How might artificial sex improve? I\u2019ll sketch some science-fictional scenarios.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saturday, September 27, 2008, 1 p.m. CELLspace \/ 2050 Bryant Street, San Francisco. Rudy gives a keynote talk on \u201cWhat is Sex?\u201d\u009d for Arse Elektronika . What is Sex? Each of us is here as a link in a chain of a zillion reproductive sex acts. The pleasures of partnership and the orgasm help make [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-582","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-upcoming-events"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/582","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=582"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/582\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":606,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/582\/revisions\/606"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}