This presentation's supplementary materials are at http://pinterest.com/sexwonk/kink-for-all-sf-2012-06-16/. Meta: June 16, 2012 at Kink for All Unconference (Noisebridge, San Francisco).

1. HACKING FOR
SEX EDUCATION
Carina C. Zona
Kink for All Unconference
San Francisco
June 16, 2012

2. HI.
I’m Carina.
Website development consultant.
Rubyist.

3. HI.
I’m Carina.
Sex education superhero!
My cape is in the laundry basket. Sorry.

4. HACKING FOR
SEX EDUCATION

5. Abstinence
Birth Control
STDs
Abortion

6. Pleasure
Public Policy
Gender Gap
Kink Menopause
Commitment
Race
Diversity
Abstinence L/G/B
Communication Aging Affection
Religion
Cancers
Anatomy Transgender
Body Image
Birth Control Love
Parenthood Health Puberty
Identity Abuse
Law Fertility STDs
Porn Abuse
Assault Discrimination
Consent Fantasy
Body Image Abortion Dating
Censorship Self-Expression
Bullying
Disability Breastfeeding
Censorship

7. Programming
Mobile
Web
Open Source

8. SMS
Accessibility
Electronic Payments
User Experience Databases
Software
Hardware Programming
Startups Law
User Interface Operating Systems
Mobile Gaming
Security APIs
Software as a Service
Testing
Content Management
Web
Social Networking
Open Source Digital Divide
Crowdsourcing
Scaling
Intellectual Property

12. WHAT WE CAN DO
✓Model reality
• ...the
one experienced from
prospective users’ POVs
✓ “What are we assuming?”
✓ “Do we reallllllly need to ask for
that?”
✓ “Dowe need to provide for
other responses?”
...for instance..

13. SELECT LIST

14. TEXT FIELD
• String storage, index,
joins, conditionals
• Localization
• Advertising
• User experience (UX)

15. SELECT LIST

16. SELECT LIST
Exhaustive? Mutually exclusive?
http://www.geeksaresexy.net/2011/05/31/does-facebook-hurt-relationship/

17. NOT EASY, IS IT?

18. TEXT FIELD
Diaspora & Metafilter
http://www.sarahmei.com/blog/2010/11/26/disalienation/

19. MOBILE

20. WALLED GARDENS
App stores have content restrictions.
These suck for sex education.

21. OH NOESSSS!

22. HUMOR GETS EXCEPTIONS
Exploit! Exploit!
(But be the one to get info right.)

23. MOBILE WEB
Skip the app store. Or do both.
http://m.sexetc.org/

24. IDENTIFY A PROBLEM
You know how hard it is to find a public restroom?

25. Public restroom visits are a
minefield for some people.
If anyone thinks you’re a man
in the ladies room or woman
in the men’s room, trouble.
FILL A NICHE
Pee in Peace helps transgender & gender non-conforming
people find single-stall or gender-neutral bathrooms (Ithaca, NY)

26. FEATURES
• Location-aware
• Mapping/directions
• Hours & special attributes
(e.g. wheelchair-accessible?)

27. DEVELOP
• Partnerships
• Planned Parenthood
• Ithaca College
• Seeking funding for Android
• Proof of concept -> scale

28. TEXTING
Tips & advice (unidirectional)

29. TEXTING
Immediate resource referrals

30. In Case You Were
Curious (ICYC)
• Text “ICYC” to 66746
• Text questions, whenever
• Get response within 24 hours
TEXTING
Q&As, but you’ve got to wait.

31. OPPORTUNITIES,
AHOY
TECHsex USA
http://www.isis-inc.org/techsex_usa.php
White paper which is
"...a deep dive into how youth, particularly youth of color,
use technology for their sexual and reproductive health.
It also identifies opportunities for new digital programming."

32. LOCAL RESOURCES
isis-inc.org • sfsi.org • lyon-martin.org

33. CARINA C. ZONA
http://pinterest.com/sexwonk/
thesexwonk@gmail.com
@etcarina
Questions?