Hard sell for sex expos
THE TECH INDUSTRY CAN be a cold and lonely world of stress and long hours. But Wired thinks it could just as well be a world of sex and long…er… never mind.
The mag is recommending that Techies lighten up by getting their bosses to send them to the ever growing number of sex-tech conferences and give powerful reasons for why they could even be good for Hi-tech business.
Unfortunately, we at the INQ have not yet had the ‘pleasure’ of attending sex-tech conferences like Sex 2.0, Arse Elektronica and Sex in Video Games (yes, they do exist, we checked), but they are apparently becoming more and more mainstream, pulling huge crowds of techies, who’s only previous experience of sex were experienced in fantasy online gaming.
Wired claims that there are plenty of good reasons a hi-tech boss would let employees attend a sex conference. It just requires, um, stating one’s position. The first piece of advice given by Wired’s sexpert is to lay out for your boss just how important it actually is to learn what people actually do with their everyday tech products in private.
Wired reckons that people would be too shy and uncomfortable talking about kinky tech usages in focus groups or surveys, but the kind of people who are open to sex conferences would be more than happy to share their, er, experiences, and advice on how to improve tech-nique.
Sex conferences are apparently also good forums in which to toss around new ideas about how mainstream tech can be tweaked for more sex orientated uses. And of course, sex sells, so putting a new spin on an old tech product could be just the money shot a company needs.
The mag also claims that because more and more young people are plugging in, Social-media and not-working platforms are perfect for sex and not-working alike. Not that it’s recommended to give up real life, proper, non virtual relationships (we’ve heard people say that real life partners are actually quite good, but none of our staff can confirm it, so it might just be an urban legend), just that tech sex is already part of the nerdy future.
Also there’s a good likelihood that these events will take place in a dark and musty dungeon, so that’s good enough reason on its own. And if the boss still isn’t buying it, give him the good old PR line that expos are all about ‘connecting’ with others and creating good synergy.
Failing that, promise to bring back dodgy pics of a rival company’s VP up to no good with a fembot.
That ought to swing it. µ
L’Inq
Wired
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"Hello boss, it's me here at the 
Techno-Sex Lollapulloosa Expo conference that 'Wired' reckons to get me wired and sorted; and I have to say, it's more hands-on than I've come across before. Everything's inexCESs, virtually converging content, services and products, in to a plethorassic, germane dance of dinosaurs, birds and mammals! If two can wander, then one can certainly wonder, if Mary Shelley did not see all of this coming together in assembled parts for the modern (pros·thesis?) Prometheus. And then there's also this whole questioning of Pandora's box getting zapped out of hand. BTW, 'Wired' may have ulterior motors keeping you, the boss, in the dark home office or cubicle. As soon as lightening flashes, (shocker!), I'll give you a buzz. Next session, some presenters read just like a potter at Hogwart's: 
Electric Touch
Magic Wands
The Ting Tings
Explosions in the Sky
Rage Against the Machine
Radiohead

I'm not sure what's to do; but I'd like to see me hap on to broad bandz... I'll show me top kit chat-up shtik, if err... Where the batteries go, anyway?
Some Whiz-banger Wizard, NOT!
Hey, Regina Lynn, I think your BDSM bellied up to a BSOD!"
Ironically, in the years to come, when we are all older...they will be using GTA - SA as a sex eucation tool.

Like the first born in a family, they are always hardest on, slowly but surely others will follow. It will be an easier pill to swallow, since it's not new.

As long as we can make sure that the game is mostly about shooting & killing & less about sex, it will even sell in America!

I wonder what Hilary thinks about that. No actually, strike that, I couldn't give a rat's ass about her opinion. And if you consider it, she probably wouldn't care for mine, so we are square.
Despite all the joking, a large percentage of our population of all ages is sexually active, and we don't have good sources of sex information. Using technology to reach folks with critical sexual health information can help reach large numbers of people at once - staying sex positive and at the same time, encouraging learning about the continuum of sexual behaviors. There are also tons of applications to promote sexual health - such as inSPOT ecards to notify sex partners about possible exposure to STDs and where to get tested locally. 

It would be amazing if tech companies got behind their staff who want to attend sex conferences, taking on sexual health as a social issue, just like "going green"....
Very good collection of double-entendres here, let me see :

pulling huge
lay out
tech-nique
money shot
swing it

Yep, prime examples.
Keep it up ! (pun intended)