Sessions at SXSW Interactive 2012 about Content and Relationships

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Friday 9th March 2012

• Sex on the Web – The Sabotage of Relationships?

  by Julie Gillis, Mia Martina, Rosie Q and Sadie Smythe

  People want to confess who they are to someone, anyone. And they want to discover who they are through that dialogue. Bonding occurs through disclosure and empathetic acceptance of that disclosure, as a result of confession. It is the basic transaction of relationships. The producers of the Austin-based performance series BedPost Confessions will discuss ways in which sexual content on the Internet helps facilitate the forming of new relationships, assists in transforming relationships, and explore how accessibility to such content might also sabotage them. We will examine the following questions and will also open the session for questions at the end.

  Issues addressed in this session will include:

  -- Has the Internet helped us become more sexually open or just lonelier?
  -- How is the flow of sexually explicit images and conversation impacting the way we define commitment in a modern relationship?
  -- Does online sexual correspondence via sexting, Facebook, Twitter etc. sabotage relationships or help them?

  • Content
  • Relationships
  • Sex

  At 2:00pm to 3:00pm, Friday 9th March

  In Driskill Ballroom, Driskill Hotel