Here are the final results of the Talk Sex with Sue sex-tech survey:

Episode 138 - Sex-Tech Special

I’m delighted to find that about a third of the 13,500 respondents said that sex-tech has has helped their love lives, versus only seven percent who feel it has harmed them. Also, men and women responded to this question pretty much the same — no huge disconnects here.

What’s interesting is how one defines sex-tech. More and more I find that people immediately think internet porn, as if that’s all there is. Certainly, that’s mostly what we hear about in mainstream news, that and child molestation (in part, I think, because we want to believe that strangers are the biggest source of sexual abuse, and not family and friends). (I had a radical point of view on that — see Net Effect: No More Sexual Abuse.

On the show last night we took calls from people for whom sex-tech has been a problem or at least a source of confusion. But the folks in the control room said afterward that toward the end, people were calling in with their happier stories, about falling in love online, coming out online, finding themselves, and so on. And that’s great to hear.

Feel free to email me directly with your stories (and questions), good and bad and everything in between. I’d love to hear about sex-tech at work in your life.

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