Re: [silk] Introducing myself

2017-04-03 Thread Udhay Shankar N 
On Tue, Apr 4, 2017 at 10:04 AM, Thaths  wrote:

> ​Yes, I was wondering what your angle was.​
> >
>
> I am acutely embarrassed now.


​That's right. You're being deliberately obtuse.​ Is it a reflex?

​Udhay​
-- 

((Udhay Shankar N)) ((udhay @ pobox.com)) ((www.digeratus.com))

Re: [silk] Introducing myself

2017-04-03 Thread Thaths 
On Tue, Apr 4, 2017 at 2:22 PM Udhay Shankar N  wrote:

> On Tue, Apr 4, 2017 at 9:50 AM, Thaths  wrote:
> > By which, of course, I mean 'menstruation'. That'll teach me to not trust
> > my browser's spell corrections.
> ​Yes, I was wondering what your angle was.​
>

I am acutely embarrassed now.

I know I can count on Silk listers to want everything to add up.

Thaths

Re: [silk] Introducing myself

2017-04-03 Thread Thaths 
On Tue, Apr 4, 2017 at 2:22 PM Udhay Shankar N  wrote:

> On Tue, Apr 4, 2017 at 9:44 AM, Thaths  wrote:
>
> Welcome to Silklist, Cindy. I first heard you (and of your work) a few
> > years ago, IIRC, in Dan Savage's podcast Savage Lovecast.
>
>
> ​Thaths, ​your name came up in the conversation that Cindy and I had - due
> to your past work as part of the back end team at the world's most valuable
> domain name. :)
>

Ah, yes! My gig at, what I describe in my resume simply as, "a popular
search engine".

Porn, interestingly, has a long history of being early adopters of
technology. The success of media/technology like Polaroid, super 8 film,
the web, (and I am told Snapchat, etc.) is driven by human quest for
(Kabuki) sex.

Thaths

Re: [silk] Introducing myself

2017-04-03 Thread Udhay Shankar N 
On Tue, Apr 4, 2017 at 9:50 AM, Thaths  wrote:

> On the other the patriarchy tries to keep women suppressed through a
> > veneration of (women's) virginity, an emphasis of abstinence, rules of
> > impurity around mensuration, etc.
> >
>
> By which, of course, I mean 'menstruation'. That'll teach me to not trust
> my browser's spell corrections.


​Yes, I was wondering what your angle was.​

​Udhay​
-- 

((Udhay Shankar N)) ((udhay @ pobox.com)) ((www.digeratus.com))

Re: [silk] Introducing myself

2017-04-03 Thread Udhay Shankar N 
On Tue, Apr 4, 2017 at 9:44 AM, Thaths  wrote:

Welcome to Silklist, Cindy. I first heard you (and of your work) a few
> years ago, IIRC, in Dan Savage's podcast Savage Lovecast.


​Thaths, ​your name came up in the conversation that Cindy and I had - due
to your past work as part of the back end team at the world's most valuable
domain name. :)

Udhay

-- 

((Udhay Shankar N)) ((udhay @ pobox.com)) ((www.digeratus.com))

Re: [silk] Introducing myself

2017-04-03 Thread Thaths 
On Tue, Apr 4, 2017 at 2:14 PM Thaths  wrote:

> On the other the patriarchy tries to keep women suppressed through a
> veneration of (women's) virginity, an emphasis of abstinence, rules of
> impurity around mensuration, etc.
>

By which, of course, I mean 'menstruation'. That'll teach me to not trust
my browser's spell corrections.

Thaths

Re: [silk] Introducing myself

2017-04-03 Thread Thaths 
On Tue, Apr 4, 2017 at 1:11 AM Cindy Gallop 
wrote:

> If I may introduce myself - I'm Cindy Gallop, founder and CEO of social sex
> videosharing sextech startup MakeLoveNotPorn, which began as a little
> public service site I launched at TED 2009 with this talk:
>
> http://blog.ted.com/cindy_gallop_ma/
>

Welcome to Silklist, Cindy. I first heard you (and of your work) a few
years ago, IIRC, in Dan Savage's podcast Savage Lovecast.

Indian attitudes to sexuality and sex is mixed and contradictory. On the
one hand there is a long tradition (going back to Kama Sutra, certain
Bhakti poetry, etc.) considering sex to be fun and pleasurable.

On the other the patriarchy tries to keep women suppressed through a
veneration of (women's) virginity, an emphasis of abstinence, rules of
impurity around mensuration, etc.

Sex education in India, at least in my days, was a matter of hurriedly
teaching the biology. I remember my biology teacher spending a mere 30-40
minutes on human reproduction (almost entirely speaking in clinical terms
of gametes, fallopian tubes, glans, etc.). I suspect many Indians, wrongly
in my opinion, worry that teaching teenagers about safe and pleasurable sex
would lead to copious copulation and unwanted pregnancies.

The less said about Bollywood's (and its South Indian cousins')  depiction
of courtship, finding a partner, consent, sex, maintaining a healthy
relationship between two adults, etc., the better.

Thaths

Re: [silk] Introducing myself

2017-04-03 Thread Amitha Singh 
Hi Cindy!

Welcome to Silk List... Very intrigued by what you are doing and much
interested. I have made a note to go through your links at leisure
hopefully before this week ends.

I have had debates and discussions on sex with friends and family... would
love to find out more (and different perspectives) so thank you for joining
the group and thank you for the work you do, truly!

Welcome again.

Regards,
Amitha

On Mon, Apr 3, 2017 at 8:40 PM, Cindy Gallop 
wrote:

> Dear Silklisters -
>
> I'm honored and delighted that Udhay kindly invited me to join you.
>
> If I may introduce myself - I'm Cindy Gallop, founder and CEO of social sex
> videosharing sextech startup MakeLoveNotPorn, which began as a little
> public service site I launched at TED 2009 with this talk:
>
> http://blog.ted.com/cindy_gallop_ma/
>
> and which received a huge global response that drove me to turn it into a
> business designed to both make money and do good:
>
> https://techcrunch.com/2015/04/04/porn-sex-tech-and-cindy-gallop/
>
> We're building a new category online - social sex - in order to make it
> easier for the world to talk about sex. Because operating a startup in this
> area is extremely challenging:
>
> https://www.fastcompany.com/3065232/startup-report/when-
> prude-investors-cockblock-sex-tech-no-one-gets-off
>
> I have been defining, pioneering and championing my own category, sextech,
> in order to open up the tech and business world's minds to what has the
> potential to be the next trillion dollar sector:
>
> https://www.hottopics.ht/14192/what-is-sextech-and-why-
> is-everyone-ignoring-it/
>
> and am raising the world's first and only sextech fund, AllTheSky Holdings:
>
> http://money.cnn.com/2017/01/24/technology/tech-versus-
> taboos-cindy-gallop/
>
> I had the enormous pleasure of meeting Udhay in Bangalore last week - MLNP
> gets a lot of traffic and emails from India, especially Indian millennials,
> and I am actively seeking investors to launch MakeLoveNotPorn India in
> order to help promote and educate on good sexual values and good sexual
> behavior - as FactorDaily outlines here:
>
> http://factordaily.com/sex-tech-startup-funding-pornography/
>
> #makeindianlovenotporn!
>
> I'm very much looking forward to the discourse here on SilkList.
>
> And I thought I'd entertain you by including a link to of one of my most
> favorite Indian experiences - learning the Lungi Dance from the master
> himself ☺
>
> https://www.facebook.com/cindy.gallop/videos/10153697237373313/
>
> I love India and hope very much to have business reasons to return soon.
>
> Many thanks -
>
> All the best,
> Cindy
>
>
> --
>
>
> Please help crowdfund my startup on iFundWomen:
> https://ifundwomen.com/projects/makelovenotporn
>
> Follow me on Twitter: http://twitter.com/cindygallop
>
> Book me to speak:
> http://www.robinsonspeakers.com/cindy-gallop-speaker-speakers-bureau
>
> Hire me to consult: http://adage.com/article/news/cindi-gallop/305457/
>



-- 
*amithasingh.com *
*"Hesitating to act because the whole vision might not be achieved, or
because others do not yet share it, is an attitude that only hinders
progress." -- MK Gandhi*

Re: [silk] Introducing myself

2017-04-03 Thread Deepa Mohan 
Welcome Cindy! Going through your links, including the lungi dance
one. I'd always assumed that all sex videos are (with the exception of
sex education ones) porn, so this is something new to me.  Even on the
net, any searching for topics relating to sex results in viruses
(virii?) or worse, so I quickly gave it up.

I find that my friends are completely unwilling to discuss sex; we
seem unable to be objective about it. Completely agree with Suresh's
words, that a frank discussion quickly degenerates into prurience and
then a strained, embarrassed silence, and the subject is conveniently
brushed under the carpet.

Have there been any discussions on sex on this list?

I'd love to hear about your experiences while setting this up.

Cheers, Deepa.

On Mon, Apr 3, 2017 at 8:40 PM, Cindy Gallop  wrote:
> Dear Silklisters -
>
> I'm honored and delighted that Udhay kindly invited me to join you.
>
> If I may introduce myself - I'm Cindy Gallop, founder and CEO of social sex
> videosharing sextech startup MakeLoveNotPorn, which began as a little
> public service site I launched at TED 2009 with this talk:
>
> http://blog.ted.com/cindy_gallop_ma/
>
> and which received a huge global response that drove me to turn it into a
> business designed to both make money and do good:
>
> https://techcrunch.com/2015/04/04/porn-sex-tech-and-cindy-gallop/
>
> We're building a new category online - social sex - in order to make it
> easier for the world to talk about sex. Because operating a startup in this
> area is extremely challenging:
>
> https://www.fastcompany.com/3065232/startup-report/when-
> prude-investors-cockblock-sex-tech-no-one-gets-off
>
> I have been defining, pioneering and championing my own category, sextech,
> in order to open up the tech and business world's minds to what has the
> potential to be the next trillion dollar sector:
>
> https://www.hottopics.ht/14192/what-is-sextech-and-why-
> is-everyone-ignoring-it/
>
> and am raising the world's first and only sextech fund, AllTheSky Holdings:
>
> http://money.cnn.com/2017/01/24/technology/tech-versus-taboos-cindy-gallop/
>
> I had the enormous pleasure of meeting Udhay in Bangalore last week - MLNP
> gets a lot of traffic and emails from India, especially Indian millennials,
> and I am actively seeking investors to launch MakeLoveNotPorn India in
> order to help promote and educate on good sexual values and good sexual
> behavior - as FactorDaily outlines here:
>
> http://factordaily.com/sex-tech-startup-funding-pornography/
>
> #makeindianlovenotporn!
>
> I'm very much looking forward to the discourse here on SilkList.
>
> And I thought I'd entertain you by including a link to of one of my most
> favorite Indian experiences - learning the Lungi Dance from the master
> himself ☺
>
> https://www.facebook.com/cindy.gallop/videos/10153697237373313/
>
> I love India and hope very much to have business reasons to return soon.
>
> Many thanks -
>
> All the best,
> Cindy
>
>
> --
>
>
> Please help crowdfund my startup on iFundWomen:
> https://ifundwomen.com/projects/makelovenotporn
>
> Follow me on Twitter: http://twitter.com/cindygallop
>
> Book me to speak:
> http://www.robinsonspeakers.com/cindy-gallop-speaker-speakers-bureau
>
> Hire me to consult: http://adage.com/article/news/cindi-gallop/305457/

Re: [silk] Introducing myself

2017-04-03 Thread Ingrid Srinath 

> On 3 Apr 2017, at 11:10, Cindy Gallop  wrote:
> 
> Dear Silklisters -
> 
> I'm honored and delighted that Udhay kindly invited me to join you.
> 
> If I may introduce myself - I'm Cindy Gallop, founder and CEO of social sex
> videosharing sextech startup MakeLoveNotPorn, which began as a little
> public service site I launched at TED 2009 with this talk:
> 
> http://blog.ted.com/cindy_gallop_ma/
> 
> and which received a huge global response that drove me to turn it into a
> business designed to both make money and do good:
> 
> https://techcrunch.com/2015/04/04/porn-sex-tech-and-cindy-gallop/
> 
> We're building a new category online - social sex - in order to make it
> easier for the world to talk about sex. Because operating a startup in this
> area is extremely challenging:
> 
> https://www.fastcompany.com/3065232/startup-report/when-
> prude-investors-cockblock-sex-tech-no-one-gets-off
> 
> I have been defining, pioneering and championing my own category, sextech,
> in order to open up the tech and business world's minds to what has the
> potential to be the next trillion dollar sector:
> 
> https://www.hottopics.ht/14192/what-is-sextech-and-why-
> is-everyone-ignoring-it/
> 
> and am raising the world's first and only sextech fund, AllTheSky Holdings:
> 
> http://money.cnn.com/2017/01/24/technology/tech-versus-taboos-cindy-gallop/
> 
> I had the enormous pleasure of meeting Udhay in Bangalore last week - MLNP
> gets a lot of traffic and emails from India, especially Indian millennials,
> and I am actively seeking investors to launch MakeLoveNotPorn India in
> order to help promote and educate on good sexual values and good sexual
> behavior - as FactorDaily outlines here:
> 
> http://factordaily.com/sex-tech-startup-funding-pornography/
> 
> #makeindianlovenotporn!
> 
> I'm very much looking forward to the discourse here on SilkList.
> 
> And I thought I'd entertain you by including a link to of one of my most
> favorite Indian experiences - learning the Lungi Dance from the master
> himself ☺
> 
> https://www.facebook.com/cindy.gallop/videos/10153697237373313/
> 
> I love India and hope very much to have business reasons to return soon.
> 

Hi Cindy!

Are you already in touch with Point of View: http://pointofview.org/  or 
EroTICs: http://www.eroticsindia.org/ ?

- Ingrid Srinath

Re: [silk] Introducing myself

2017-04-03 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian 
Welcome! 

Now you mention it, that's the funny, or rather, pitiful thing. A frank 
discussion of sex often veers into the prurient, from horny and oversexed but 
inexperienced students, to snickering locker room talk from middle aged people 
who tend not to get much at all.

Places where "the middle ground" exists and people are actually comfortable 
discussing sex are few and far between.

By the way if you haven't already, you might take a look at Kate Lister's 
twitter feed @whoresofyore - she's a sexual / sex work historian who manages to 
keep the discussion fun, frank and interesting.

--srs

> On 03-Apr-2017, at 8:40 PM, Cindy Gallop  wrote:
> 
> I had the enormous pleasure of meeting Udhay in Bangalore last week - MLNP
> gets a lot of traffic and emails from India, especially Indian millennials,
> and I am actively seeking investors to launch MakeLoveNotPorn India in
> order to help promote and educate on good sexual values and good sexual
> behavior - as FactorDaily outlines here:

Re: [silk] Introducing myself

2017-04-03 Thread Shyam Sunder 
My first thought upon reading this was... is this mail a couple of days late?

Welcome, Cindy! Looking forward to your contributions to the list. 

Warm regards

Shyam

-Original Message-
From: silklist 
[mailto:silklist-bounces+shyam.sunder=peakalpha@lists.hserus.net] On Behalf 
Of Cindy Gallop
Sent: 03 April 2017 20:40
To: silklist@lists.hserus.net
Subject: [silk] Introducing myself

Dear Silklisters -

I'm honored and delighted that Udhay kindly invited me to join you.

If I may introduce myself - I'm Cindy Gallop, founder and CEO of social sex 
videosharing sextech startup MakeLoveNotPorn, which began as a little public 
service site I launched at TED 2009 with this talk:

http://blog.ted.com/cindy_gallop_ma/

and which received a huge global response that drove me to turn it into a 
business designed to both make money and do good:

https://techcrunch.com/2015/04/04/porn-sex-tech-and-cindy-gallop/

We're building a new category online - social sex - in order to make it easier 
for the world to talk about sex. Because operating a startup in this area is 
extremely challenging:

https://www.fastcompany.com/3065232/startup-report/when-
prude-investors-cockblock-sex-tech-no-one-gets-off

I have been defining, pioneering and championing my own category, sextech, in 
order to open up the tech and business world's minds to what has the potential 
to be the next trillion dollar sector:

https://www.hottopics.ht/14192/what-is-sextech-and-why-
is-everyone-ignoring-it/

and am raising the world's first and only sextech fund, AllTheSky Holdings:

http://money.cnn.com/2017/01/24/technology/tech-versus-taboos-cindy-gallop/

I had the enormous pleasure of meeting Udhay in Bangalore last week - MLNP gets 
a lot of traffic and emails from India, especially Indian millennials, and I am 
actively seeking investors to launch MakeLoveNotPorn India in order to help 
promote and educate on good sexual values and good sexual behavior - as 
FactorDaily outlines here:

http://factordaily.com/sex-tech-startup-funding-pornography/

#makeindianlovenotporn!

I'm very much looking forward to the discourse here on SilkList.

And I thought I'd entertain you by including a link to of one of my most 
favorite Indian experiences - learning the Lungi Dance from the master 
himself ☺

https://www.facebook.com/cindy.gallop/videos/10153697237373313/

I love India and hope very much to have business reasons to return soon.

Many thanks -

All the best,
Cindy


-- 


Please help crowdfund my startup on iFundWomen:
https://ifundwomen.com/projects/makelovenotporn

Follow me on Twitter: http://twitter.com/cindygallop

Book me to speak:
http://www.robinsonspeakers.com/cindy-gallop-speaker-speakers-bureau

Hire me to consult: http://adage.com/article/news/cindi-gallop/305457/

Re: [silk] Introducing myself

2017-04-03 Thread Kavita Jhunjhunwala 
Hey Cindy,

Welcome!

We connected a while back at one of the sxsw events!

Look forward to hearing more...


Cheers,
Kavita


On 03-Apr-2017 8:41 PM, "Cindy Gallop"  wrote:

> Dear Silklisters -
>
> I'm honored and delighted that Udhay kindly invited me to join you.
>
> If I may introduce myself - I'm Cindy Gallop, founder and CEO of social sex
> videosharing sextech startup MakeLoveNotPorn, which began as a little
> public service site I launched at TED 2009 with this talk:
>
> http://blog.ted.com/cindy_gallop_ma/
>
> and which received a huge global response that drove me to turn it into a
> business designed to both make money and do good:
>
> https://techcrunch.com/2015/04/04/porn-sex-tech-and-cindy-gallop/
>
> We're building a new category online - social sex - in order to make it
> easier for the world to talk about sex. Because operating a startup in this
> area is extremely challenging:
>
> https://www.fastcompany.com/3065232/startup-report/when-
> prude-investors-cockblock-sex-tech-no-one-gets-off
>
> I have been defining, pioneering and championing my own category, sextech,
> in order to open up the tech and business world's minds to what has the
> potential to be the next trillion dollar sector:
>
> https://www.hottopics.ht/14192/what-is-sextech-and-why-
> is-everyone-ignoring-it/
>
> and am raising the world's first and only sextech fund, AllTheSky Holdings:
>
> http://money.cnn.com/2017/01/24/technology/tech-versus-
> taboos-cindy-gallop/
>
> I had the enormous pleasure of meeting Udhay in Bangalore last week - MLNP
> gets a lot of traffic and emails from India, especially Indian millennials,
> and I am actively seeking investors to launch MakeLoveNotPorn India in
> order to help promote and educate on good sexual values and good sexual
> behavior - as FactorDaily outlines here:
>
> http://factordaily.com/sex-tech-startup-funding-pornography/
>
> #makeindianlovenotporn!
>
> I'm very much looking forward to the discourse here on SilkList.
>
> And I thought I'd entertain you by including a link to of one of my most
> favorite Indian experiences - learning the Lungi Dance from the master
> himself ☺
>
> https://www.facebook.com/cindy.gallop/videos/10153697237373313/
>
> I love India and hope very much to have business reasons to return soon.
>
> Many thanks -
>
> All the best,
> Cindy
>
>
> --
>
>
> Please help crowdfund my startup on iFundWomen:
> https://ifundwomen.com/projects/makelovenotporn
>
> Follow me on Twitter: http://twitter.com/cindygallop
>
> Book me to speak:
> http://www.robinsonspeakers.com/cindy-gallop-speaker-speakers-bureau
>
> Hire me to consult: http://adage.com/article/news/cindi-gallop/305457/
>

[silk] Introducing myself

2017-04-03 Thread Cindy Gallop 
Dear Silklisters -

I'm honored and delighted that Udhay kindly invited me to join you.

If I may introduce myself - I'm Cindy Gallop, founder and CEO of social sex
videosharing sextech startup MakeLoveNotPorn, which began as a little
public service site I launched at TED 2009 with this talk:

http://blog.ted.com/cindy_gallop_ma/

and which received a huge global response that drove me to turn it into a
business designed to both make money and do good:

https://techcrunch.com/2015/04/04/porn-sex-tech-and-cindy-gallop/

We're building a new category online - social sex - in order to make it
easier for the world to talk about sex. Because operating a startup in this
area is extremely challenging:

https://www.fastcompany.com/3065232/startup-report/when-
prude-investors-cockblock-sex-tech-no-one-gets-off

I have been defining, pioneering and championing my own category, sextech,
in order to open up the tech and business world's minds to what has the
potential to be the next trillion dollar sector:

https://www.hottopics.ht/14192/what-is-sextech-and-why-
is-everyone-ignoring-it/

and am raising the world's first and only sextech fund, AllTheSky Holdings:

http://money.cnn.com/2017/01/24/technology/tech-versus-taboos-cindy-gallop/

I had the enormous pleasure of meeting Udhay in Bangalore last week - MLNP
gets a lot of traffic and emails from India, especially Indian millennials,
and I am actively seeking investors to launch MakeLoveNotPorn India in
order to help promote and educate on good sexual values and good sexual
behavior - as FactorDaily outlines here:

http://factordaily.com/sex-tech-startup-funding-pornography/

#makeindianlovenotporn!

I'm very much looking forward to the discourse here on SilkList.

And I thought I'd entertain you by including a link to of one of my most
favorite Indian experiences - learning the Lungi Dance from the master
himself ☺

https://www.facebook.com/cindy.gallop/videos/10153697237373313/

I love India and hope very much to have business reasons to return soon.

Many thanks -

All the best,
Cindy


-- 


Please help crowdfund my startup on iFundWomen:
https://ifundwomen.com/projects/makelovenotporn

Follow me on Twitter: http://twitter.com/cindygallop

Book me to speak:
http://www.robinsonspeakers.com/cindy-gallop-speaker-speakers-bureau

Hire me to consult: http://adage.com/article/news/cindi-gallop/305457/