2025/10/15

What Silicon Valley Can Learn from the Fetish Community

● 15/10/2025
“Consent is an ongoing, enthusiastic social contract that is mutable. You can agree to something, experience it, and then decide you don’t actually like it, and then you change the terms. But all of this needs to be in discussion in perpetuity.”
– Artist, technologist, and A SEXUAL HISTORY OF THE INTERNET (2025) author Mindy Seu, on why the terms and conditions of most platforms aren’t acceptable. Discussing data doms, AI chatbots, and the loneliness epidemic with psychoanalyst Jamieson Webster, Seu lauds the consent models of the BDSM community for recognizing “that it’s important to understand how to talk and negotiate the terms of pleasure.”
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