To the kind respondents on this thread - I thought you might like to see this report from Godrej India Cultural Lab on the gathering I mentioned, and the wonderful line-up of amazing Indian activists in this area:
http://indiaculturelab.org/blog/an-evening-with-the-make-love-not-porn-founder/ On Wed, Apr 5, 2017 at 11:16 AM, Cindy Gallop <ci...@ifwerantheworld.com> wrote: > Everyone - thank you so much for your kind messages of welcome and > interest in what I'm doing! Please forgive a slight delay in responding - > I was busy yesterday on Equal Pay Day turning myself into a chatbot :) > > http://www.campaignlive.co.uk/article/cindy-gallop-chatbot-w > ill-help-ask-raise-equal-pay-day/1429448 > > Kavita - great to reconnect! > > Suresh - yes, I know @whoresofyore, wonderful feed. > > Ingrid - yes, while I was in Mumbai three weeks ago, Parmesh Shahani of > the Godrej India Culture Lab very kindly organized a gathering of members > of the Indian sex-positive and sex education community to meet and talk > with me, including the PointOfView team, and I have been monitoring for > some time the great work going on in different parts of India in this area. > If we are ever able to bring MLNP to India, I very much want to collaborate > with, help aggregate and promote all of that great work. Our approach in > India would be to operate on the ground to redesign and launch MLNP as a > 'homegrown' localized India initiative - in the same way Paromita Devi's > Agents Of Ishq are doing fantastic work on this front. I loved this video > Paromita Devi played for me at that gathering: https://www. > youtube.com/watch?v=TLsqNCzSkZQ > > Deepa - you can get a sense of my and my team's experiences working on > this if you check out the #sextechbiz section of our blog: > https://talkabout.makelovenotporn.tv/category/sextechbiz/ Two words: > extremely challenging. :) > > And to all of your comments - the Indian experience is precisely why one > of the things I want to do with funding is to start the Khan Academy of sex > education: > > http://fortune.com/2015/06/16/ceo-wants-khan-academy-of-sex-ed/ > > Many thanks - > > All the best, > Cindy > > > > > > On Tue, Apr 4, 2017 at 1:36 PM, Dave Long <dave.l...@bluewin.ch> wrote: > >> The less said about Bollywood's (and its South Indian cousins') depiction >>> of courtship, finding a partner, consent, ... etc., the better. >>> >> >> As a not-so-adjacent alternative, how about a russian take on the >> problems and joys* of complementary constructions? >> "you're my everything" >> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pDcixye_0Jo >> (very much less than frank, so maybe I'm putting myself firmly in the >> middle-aged contingent by admiring their use [in leading up to the climax] >> of similar angles and parallels?) >> >> -Dave >> >> * more algebraic than geometric, but what was once just a throwaway >> footnote in "The Pleasures of Counting" is now a published title: "The Joy >> of X" >> >> >> > > > -- > > > 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/ > > -- 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/
