IoT devices: Lovense. Sex Tech For Every Bedroom: Use teledildonics to improve your sex life!

Micro
Intimacy communicated through shared data exchanges + sensor capture

• Affordances
• Data being shared
• Connected devices
• Shared data and communication is narrated as a way to maintain sexual contact with another
• Partnered play from a distance
• Camming
• Partnered toys sync across bluetooth
• Intelligent playback
• Past sessions can be recorded and replayed from partner play
• Real time movement from sensor capture
• Positionally of the toy is captured and infers the stimulation pattern of your partner’s toy
• API for connection with Third Party Video chat programs

Meso
Security concerns

• Same encrypted information that goes beyond international lines
• Information stored on servers

Social - Connecting with others

• Goes back to armaan

Social - Control/Neoliberalism/Efficiency

• Linking basic daily tasks to the sex toy and even recording pleasurable patterns for later use (for the person on the go!)
• Camming
• Intimacy as currency and capital flow

Macro
Level of production

• Extraction of materials of creation

Circulation

• Produced in China, with headquarters in Hong Kong

Data breaking as digital currency

• Data that goes through underwater cables
• Flow of capital through the cam, that then responds to the object itself

Patricia, Ron, Adam & Paulina