19 Dec 2015

Cindy Gallop: sex, porn and technology

From Saturday Morning, 8:35 am on 19 December 2015
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"Our mission is purely and simply to help make it easier to talk about sex in the real world."

Cindy Gallop joined British advertising company Bartle Bogle Hegarty in 1989, and was chair of its board of directors by the time she left the company. She founded her own brand and business innovation consultancy, Cindy Gallop LLC in 2006. At the 2009 TED conference launched her startup MakeLoveNotPorn  (an antidote to what she called technology's hardcore impact on human behaviour) which positioned her as a global evangelist for 'sextech' – the intersection of technology with human sexuality and experience.

In 2010, she launched IfWeRanTheWorld, an experiment to find a quick, simple and easy way for people and businesses to turn good intentions into action. Cindy Gallop is visiting Wellington for Webstock 2016 (9-12 February, St James Theatre), and for Extraordinary Tales of Strength & Daring (14 February, Opera House).

Cindy tells Kim Hill that it is precisely because we don't talk about sex that porn acts as default sex education for today's online generation.