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Arse Elektronika, the awesome San Francisco sex tech conference that last year brought us talks like “Fucking Machines” and “Porn, Tech, and Creativity,” has opened up its 2008 call for submissions. The event will take place from September 25th-28th, and the theme is “Do Androids Sleep with Electric Sheep?: Critical Perspectives on Sexuality and Pornography in Science and Social Fiction” (so… good…). Interested sex dorks like yours truly can submit presentations in any one of the three “panel” topics: narration, technology, and politics. From the submission call:

The genre of the “fantastic” is especially well suited to the investigation of the touchy area of sexuality and pornography: actual and assumed developments are frequently depicted positively and approvingly, but just as often with dystopian admonishment. Here the classic, and continuingly valid, themes of modernism represent a clear link between the two aspects: questions of science, research and technologization are of interest, as is the complex surrounding urbanism, artificiality and control (or the loss of control). Depictions of the future, irregardless of the form they take, always address the present as well. Imaginations of the fantastic and the nightmarish give rise to a thematic overlapping of the exotic, the alienating and, of course, the pornographic/sexual as well.

Inspired? Confused? Go forth, Heroine Sheik readers, and share your sex dork-dom opinions with the world!