{"id":672,"date":"2008-04-15T09:16:33","date_gmt":"2008-04-14T23:16:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.msnaughty.com\/blog\/2008\/04\/15\/sex-20-and-a-sense-of-isolation\/"},"modified":"2008-04-15T09:16:33","modified_gmt":"2008-04-14T23:16:33","slug":"sex-20-and-a-sense-of-isolation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/msnaughty.com\/blog\/2008\/04\/15\/sex-20-and-a-sense-of-isolation\/","title":{"rendered":"Sex 2.0 And A Sense Of Isolation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blogpics\/sex20.jpg\" align=\"left\" alt=\"Sex 2.0\" \/>This weekend <a href=\"http:\/\/www.beingamberrhea.com\/\" target=\"blank\">Amber Rhea&#8217;s<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sex20con.com\/\">Sex 2.0 conference<\/a> was held in Atlanta, Georgia. It was attended by various blogging luminaries like Dacia and Rachel Kramer Bussell and was a general discussion of feminism, sexuality and the internet. It looked very cool and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thesexcarnival.com\/2008\/04\/links-for-2008-04-14\/\" target=\"blank\">various posts<\/a> are appearing about the event as I write.<\/p>\n<p>Thing is, though, I wasn&#8217;t there. Once again, living in Australia means that I miss out on all these &#8220;real world&#8221; conferences and events. I remember being involved in the discussions when Amber first suggested the idea for the conference, and I said I&#8217;d like to go, but it&#8217;s just not possible thanks to the sheer cost involved in getting there.<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes I feel frustrated that where I live is getting in the way of my career, a bit. I want to network and meet people and it&#8217;s just not doable at this stage. Occasionally I&#8217;ll muse about the idea of getting my butt over to the US or Europe and maybe even living there a few months to see what I can get out of it but that&#8217;s a big thing to contemplate. Australia&#8217;s online and adult industry is just so constricted compared to that of America or the UK or Europe. And the thing is, I don&#8217;t even live in a large city here so I&#8217;m doubly isolated.<\/p>\n<p>I read yesterday that Richard Branson is about to offer seriously cut price fares to the US (they&#8217;re currently over $2500) so that may make a difference in the future.<\/p>\n<p>This is more of a rant than anything. In a way it doesn&#8217;t make sense that someone who makes her living on the internet should complain of isolation. I guess the thing is that business opportunities and friendships always seem to be stronger when a physical connection occurs &#8211; even if you&#8217;ve known the person online for years.<\/p>\n<p>One day&#8230; one day&#8230;<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This weekend Amber Rhea&#8217;s Sex 2.0 conference was held in Atlanta, Georgia. It was attended by various blogging luminaries like Dacia and Rachel Kramer Bussell and was a general discussion of feminism, sexuality and the internet. It looked very cool and various posts are appearing about the event as I write. Thing is, though, I wasn&#8217;t there. Once again, living in Australia means that I miss out on all these <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/msnaughty.com\/blog\/2008\/04\/15\/sex-20-and-a-sense-of-isolation\/\">Read More &#8230;<\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,19],"tags":[210,705,919,856],"class_list":["post-672","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogging","category-ramblings","tag-conference","tag-sex-20","tag-sexuality","tag-women"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/msnaughty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/672","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/msnaughty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/msnaughty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/msnaughty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/msnaughty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=672"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/msnaughty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/672\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/msnaughty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/msnaughty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/msnaughty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}