Sexu@link is a collaborative co-designed platform that promotes the use of the Internet for an ethical, accessible, free and open sexuality. It is an educational proposal towards a participatory collective construction, which responds to the need to access content that does not reproduce stereotypes of violence, misogyny, or that encourages sexual exploitation, assault or attack on privacy and security in the Internet.

We propose to make the leap from the Internet of artificial intelligence to collective intelligence, where Internet users cease to be mere users and become participants and co-designers of our virtual ecosystem. The ethical dilemma of Internet regulation is not resolved from a closure and control perspective; on the contrary, it is necessary to devise opening mechanisms for the appropriation of representative virtual spaces, where regulation takes place within processes of participatory deliberation.

We believe that sexuality is a privileged field to problematize the use we make of the internet. Just as it is not desirable to control our desire or pleasure, the internet also requires an approach of openness and not closure. With Sexu@link we seek to open new alternatives that accommodate the different practices and uses within an ecosystem of nonviolence and repression.

The project focuses on three main themes: Ethical pornography, Sexual Education on the Internet, Love and Digital Interaction . Each of these topics will be addressed in a first phase of problematization to identify significant challenges. A second stage uses methodologies of innovation and participation with a human centered approach, to generate a co-design process within a collective intelligence laboratory format.

 

Finally, the product of this process will be resolved in a call for the prototyping of the platform and its content. The project will be delivered to be self-managed by the community and will serve as an experiment to learn about the possibility of self-management and regulation of a mutable and open virtual space.