cindygallop

No, we're global, and welcome #realworldsex video submissions from anywhere in the world :)

It is on Techcrunch, actually: http://techcrunch.com/2012/11/25/body-hacks-building-abody-h...

But you're absolutely right about the taboos in society. If you're interested, this is an interview with me on Inc about my and my team's battle to make https://www.makelovenotporn.tv/ happen. Every obstacle an entrepreneur with a tech startup encounters - have a tech startup dealing with sex, triple them. http://www.inc.com/chris-beier-and-daniel-wolfman/venture-ca...

Absolutely. You might find this piece from HuffPoUK on gender differences in marketing sex toys which I was interviewed for, interesting: http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2012/11/20/sex-toys-sexist-r...

Ahem. You'd be surprised how many white straight males are indeed interested in that. We've been pleasantly surprised by the popularity of Violet & Rye's straight-couple pegging #realworldsex video on https://makelovenotporn.tv/....:)

Ahem, don't forget to talk to me and my team about our sex tech startup...:) http://www.xbiz.com/news/156181

cough Have already urged @scanlime to do this, but anyone else, as and when you hack your vagina - or penis, we're totally equal-opportunity :) - please do submit your (or your friends') #realworldsex video demo to https://makelovenotporn.tv/ (with our revenue-sharing business model, you could make a nice chunk of change :))

Thanks for that testimonial - much appreciated :) Anyone interested can read more about what we're building on our blog: http://talkabout.makelovenotporn.tv/ + email cindy@makelovenotporn.tv and I'll fast-track you into beta (we hope to be able to take the site out of beta next month).

Obviously, I consider this a highly flattering comment :)

Thanks so much everyone for this great discussion. For anyone interested, you can read more about what my team and I are building and our social mission, business model and circular ecosystem on our blog: http://talkabout.makelovenotporn.tv/

Do sign up for beta, and we would love your #realworldsex submissions :) - anyone contributing content gets fast-tracked into beta immediately. Just email cindy@makelovenotporn.com - many thanks.

My launch post on our blog explains our business model and how I designed MLNPTV as a circular ecosystem. It's very easy to watch #realworldsex videos for free: all you have to do is contribute them yourself, and then use the money other members pay into your account to watch whatever you want :)

http://talkabout.makelovenotporn.tv/post/29383253943/hellowo...

That's precisely what I'm doing - commissioning from all of you: crowdsourced, user-generated #realworldsex :) You can read the details of what I and my team are building on our blog: http://talkabout.makelovenotporn.tv/

If you check out http://makelovenotporn.com/ you'll see what I'm talking about. And no, the lovers that inspired MLNP to begin with were only a few vs a bunch of really great ones :) MLNP is not anti-porn: the issue I'm tackling, as I say in the NY Times piece, is the lack in our society of an open healthy discussion around sex and porn, that would enable more people to bring more of a real-world mindset when viewing what is essentially artificial entertainment. My entire message with MLNP boils down to simply 'talk about it'. If you go to the About page on MakeLoveNotPorn.com, you'll see why this is an issue.

Absolutely. What I'm setting out to do is help my friends in porn break down the wall between society and the non-socially acceptable 'parallel universe' that porn exists in. This is a blog post & interview with me on how I want to help the porn industry as a whole:

http://talkabout.makelovenotporn.tv/post/30727363965/the-bus...

This is a short video interview with me on the business of MakeLoveNotPorn:

http://lynseyg.com/cindy-gallop-will-make-you-think-and-brin...

and my launch post on the details of our business model and why I designed it the way that I did:

http://talkabout.makelovenotporn.tv/post/29383253943/hellowo...

Yours, Charlatan :)

You can read about MakeLoveNotPorn.tv's social mission, objective and how we're working to make the world a better place here:

http://talkabout.makelovenotporn.tv/post/29383253943/hellowo...

Yours, Ms Blecch! :)

Exactly. Hate to break it to you guys, but those dorm rooms don't exist. :)

The title was a joke :)

Wow, great minds think alike - this is the equivalent of 'If you ran the world, what would you do?' :)

As you may have seen, my answer is I would turn every single good intention into action.

If you have a mo and would like to, do email me - cindy@ifwerantheworld.com. Would love to discuss further.

Thank you for that! Check out our designer Sougwen's own website:

http://sougwen.com/

Thank you!

We definitely plan to do that.

You're right - we want to encourage people to take things they really care about and think about how to tackle them via initially tangible goals they can then use friends, networks, and the connections we can provide to achieve via microactions. We're working to address and rebalance this.

You can find that here for the time being:

http://ifwerantheworld.com/action_platforms

Whoops, apologies for typo, that should be 'we really appreciate everything YOU'RE saying..':)

To everybody who's commented so far - we really appreciate the feedback, the compliments and the constructive criticism.

Just to add to my team's responses below:

- fulltime employees currently are 3: myself (founder/CEO/ business development/'customer service'), Jason our general manager who also operates as project manager and programmer, and Julia, programmer. Oonie has been working on user experience alongside her day job and joins us fulltime very soon. Sougwen our brilliant designer is currently on the digital media course at Hyper Island in Stockholm and works with us part-time. And Corey and Rachel at Pivotal Labs worked with us to build this while we were looking for full-time developers, are passionate about the venture, very much part of the team and we want to give them full credit for that.

- we pushed IfWeRanTheWorld out in beta very much in 'minimum viable product' mode because we wanted a real-world, real-time test to garner exactly the kind of feedback you are kindly giving us below, so we could jump on user experience/usability issues pronto, and address and refine accordingly alongside our own development timeline (which has additional features and functionality being added on a daily basis, along with addressing IE issues).

- you're quite right about the fact that while 'If I ran the world I would' is designed to inspire you to act on what you really personally care about, it's prompting users to think rather too big at the moment - we're jumping on that with some different ways of suggesting how you approach that, in order to turn big thoughts into tangible goals you (and everyone else helping) can turn into microactions that make them achievable.

- we, and I personally, really appreciate everything we're saying and will be acting on it

- I should just add that we are big fans of 'abnormal' - as in,doing things differently and coming up with innovative ways to achieve goals and be effective. Including where that, ahem, references the unusual instance of a startup team being female-dominated..:)