Sexual Encounters: The Very First Time
Sep 10, 2026 · 1 hr 2 min · 10 segments
Can your first sexual experience happen without ever physically touching another person? In Digital Firsts, *we* explores how technology is reshaping sex, intimacy, relationships and even what we mean…
Markie TwistGuest
Neil McArthurGuestVirginiaHostMary JaneHostdeveloped the idea of DigiHealth, approaching digital experiences through, as we've mentioned, consent, protection from exploitation, harm, honesty, privacy, and pleasure.
You've done your homework, and that actually tells me that you're making probably exchanges through mediating technologies and immersive technologies that are more informed by these principles.
And so it's really hard for us as humans to kind of keep up with those movements.
And so what that means is we start engaging, whether it's that first wave of digisexuality with mediating technologies.
Between other humans before we really have rules around this or what are the norms around that engagement? And of course, we've done the same thing in the second wave where now it's more immersive and we don't really have a good set in stone.
We came up with language and identity and kind of saw what was happening and could see what was coming.
Technology is best thought of as as a member of a family or relational system.
developed the idea of DigiHealth, approaching digital experiences through, as we've mentioned, consent, protection from exploitation, harm, honesty, privacy, and pleasure.
You've done your homework, and that actually tells me that you're making probably exchanges through mediating technologies and immersive technologies that are more informed by these principles.
And so it's really hard for us as humans to kind of keep up with those movements.
And so what that means is we start engaging, whether it's that first wave of digisexuality with mediating technologies.
Between other humans before we really have rules around this or what are the norms around that engagement? And of course, we've done the same thing in the second wave where now it's more immersive and we don't really have a good set in stone.
We came up with language and identity and kind of saw what was happening and could see what was coming.
Technology is best thought of as as a member of a family or relational system.
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