{"id":23725,"date":"2019-02-21T19:52:51","date_gmt":"2019-02-21T23:52:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/cyborgology\/?p=23725"},"modified":"2019-02-21T20:09:54","modified_gmt":"2019-02-22T00:09:54","slug":"lovesync-when-sextech-cant-save-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/cyborgology\/2019\/02\/21\/lovesync-when-sextech-cant-save-us\/","title":{"rendered":"LoveSync: When Sextech Can&#8217;t Save Us"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/cyborgology\/files\/2019\/02\/9f1937486b2508946cfcd033518bacb8_original.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-23726\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/cyborgology\/files\/2019\/02\/9f1937486b2508946cfcd033518bacb8_original-400x225.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/cyborgology\/files\/2019\/02\/9f1937486b2508946cfcd033518bacb8_original-400x225.gif 400w, https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/cyborgology\/files\/2019\/02\/9f1937486b2508946cfcd033518bacb8_original-250x141.gif 250w, https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/cyborgology\/files\/2019\/02\/9f1937486b2508946cfcd033518bacb8_original-500x282.gif 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In addition to contributing to <em>Cyborgology<\/em>, I write a sex column for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pghcitypaper.com\/\"><em>Pittsburgh City Paper<\/em><\/a>. This week, I wrote a piece that&#8217;s relevant to conversations here, titled, &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.pghcitypaper.com\/pittsburgh\/a-new-kickstarter-campaign-has-a-terrible-solution-to-your-relationship-problems\/Content?oid=13735176\">A new Kickstarter campaign has a terrible solution to your relationship problems.<\/a>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I look at LoveSync,\u00a0a new technology aimed at helping couples with mismatched libidos, and argue it&#8217;s an example of how technological solutions to social or interpersonal problems can do more harm than good.<\/p>\n<p>Jessie Sage on Twitter @sapiotextual.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In addition to contributing to Cyborgology, I write a sex column for the Pittsburgh City Paper. This week, I wrote a piece that&#8217;s relevant to conversations here, titled, &#8220;A new Kickstarter campaign has a terrible solution to your relationship problems.&#8221; I look at LoveSync,\u00a0a new technology aimed at helping couples with mismatched libidos, and argue [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2088,"featured_media":23726,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[9967,425,9968],"tags":[99,120,109955,109956],"class_list":["post-23725","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-commentary","category-links","category-reviews","tag-relationships","tag-sex","tag-sextech","tag-tech"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/cyborgology\/files\/2019\/02\/9f1937486b2508946cfcd033518bacb8_original.gif","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/cyborgology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23725","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/cyborgology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/cyborgology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/cyborgology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2088"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/cyborgology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23725"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/cyborgology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23725\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23734,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/cyborgology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23725\/revisions\/23734"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/cyborgology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/cyborgology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/cyborgology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/cyborgology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}