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Thank you so much for recommending us! MakeLoveNotPorn is 'Pro-sex. Pro-porn. Pro-knowing the difference.' We're pioneering the whole new category of social sex (what Facebook woul…

MakeLoveNotPorn / Full Stack Developer / Full time / New York or remote / https://www.makelovenotporn.com/ launched in 2009 with this TED talk: https://blog.ted.com/cindy_gallop_ma…

Terrific! Do email cindy@makelovenotporn.com when you're ready to talk :)

Exactly. The Next Big Thing in tech is disrupting sex. :) #sextech

90% of the audience at any Oculus Rift presentation/demo are thinking 'Sex' :)

At MakeLoveNotPorn we're entirely pro-porn - our tagline is 'Pro-sex. Pro-porn. Pro-knowing the difference.' And we're utterly non-judgemental - #realworldsex is all-inclusive, of …

I actually would prefer not to name names because am in discussions to get over that hump...but I've unfortunately encountered this in several.

And on this topic - can I introduce Peiqi Su's fantastic ITP installation, the Penis Wall? :) http://itp.nyu.edu/shows/thesis2014/peiqi-su/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJw-JUmj…

Porn sites have tried, but it's really tough. We want to help break down the social barriers that prevent that. However, here is one mainstream brand who wholeheartedly embraced th…

Thank you so much for referencing us! :) #realworldsex

Not quite :) Sex Tech Is Untapped: These 11 Players Are Trying To Change That http://blog.referralcandy.com/2014/06/03/sex-tech-is-untappe...

That's precisely why you should. :) Seriously, I and my team and every other #sextech entrepreneur are working to change the public attitude. For the people ahead of the curve - OH…

This is MakeLoveNotPorn's revenue-sharing business model (we're part of the sharing economy, just like Uber and Airbnb): http://talkabout.makelovenotporn.tv/2012/09/20/how-makelove…

Would love you to do that. Huge opportunity. Email cindy@makelovenotporn.com.

Exactly. Which is why the Daily Beast wrote this piece on us and other #sextech entrepreneurs on 'Silicon Valley's Soft Sex Ban: Why The Digital World Needs To Stop Failing Sex': h…

Yes, Stripe would love to. It's their bank that refuses. Patrick Collison really went to bat for us but couldn't win.:( Ben Milne of Dwolla supports adult ventures, and we work wit…

As per my commment below, we get virtually no chargebacks at http://makelovenotporn.com/ because we are a different kind of business operating in a different kind of way - out in t…

Irony: http://makelovenotporn.com/ wants to make sex and the discussion around it socially acceptable and socially shareable - our mission is to change the way the world has sex fo…

And to answer your question even more specifically - here's a list of founders and ventures doing innovative things in this space: Kit Maloney, Oactually http://oactually.com/ Cyan…

Funnily enough, while that used to be true, it's no longer the case. The tech world has advanced to the point that it's outstripped the porn industry, which is struggling for the b…

Um - I've been battling the 'no adult content' clause for several years now, and unfortunately I can tell you that's not the case. I can't even open a business bank account for htt…

We at MakeLoveNotPorn are working to change that. My piece for the UK Independent on 'It's Not That Porn Degrades Women, It's That Business Degrades Porn': http://www.independent.c…

We're keen to use bitcoin and have been talking to various people about this for years. Would you believe bitcoin merchants are also susceptible to 'No adult content'?!!

Alas no, but I can tell you that many of the entrepreneurs doing really interesting things in this space are female :)