It is funny how many technologies are introduced the mass market by relating to sex. As smart as we might be, survival and reproduction are still core genetic imperatives.

> It is funny how many technologies are introduced the mass market by relating to sex.

This kind of claim is often made (often by smut mongers), but I don't remember (though may have forgotten) ever seeing any examples that really back up the claim. Can you list some?

>>This kind of claim is often made (often by smut mongers), but I don't remember (though may have forgotten) ever seeing any examples that really back up the claim. Can you list some?

Let me try: Not just technologies, even religions have used sex to sell themselves. Take the kind of things that are sold (in terms of unsubstantiated guarantees of carnal pleasures in heaven after death if you follow the code of conduct proscribed by God(s) via his appointed messengers) you will see that a very large part of this promise is some kind of abundant sex (akin to unlimited download/upload). See for example this sales pitch. [1]

[1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HdzusekB8cg

Thanks for your reply. That's an argument about 'sex sells' though. Like car exhibitions or Microsoft Xbox conventions using scantily clad women.

What I meant (and I think the parent of my post was talking about, though I could be wrong) is the old chestnut that the sex/adult industry innovated or popularized all kinds of technologies.

Sex sells far more than its own depiction.

It would funnier if your family and friends were given messages about your intimate activities, jbob

Edit: I can't see the main being that this "is about sex" but rather that this is about privacy and privacy is things people do that for a variety of reasons they don't want some people to know about. Certain sexual behaviors are included here but it seems far from funny or far from "bringing things down to earth", given that what happening is a variety of women suffering in a socially repressive nation.

They're made out of meat.

http://www.terrybisson.com/page6/page6.html

Always love when this short story pops up!

From one obscurist to another, it's mostly water.

It's not even obscure: the reference has 67 upvotes on UrbanDictionary, and the page for the referenced episode has existed for 13 years and 363 edits on Memory Alpha, and for 11 years and 371 edits on Wikipedia.

There's a "liquid remix" video of the quote on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9tw_5OfFycU

There's a white-people "jazz" song named after it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cEORdH7RzYw

Josh Woodward has done another rock/pop song probably referencing it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hYptvK41Bi4&list=PLDZvNEf3nY...

I don't see any evidence that those people are a sufficiently random sample of users vs. Trek nerds who explicitly search for the obscure reference. I'm sure I could find some obscure mathematical reference that 7000 math nerds discuss but is completely unknown by the remaining 99.9999% of the population.