I'm not sexless. On the contrary, I'm physically uncomfortable in a room full of people talking about sex. People like me are not a tiny minority, and so it is considered counter-productive to inject unnecessary sexually-charged content into a professional conference.
We are _wired_ to pay attention to this stuff Yes, it's a huge distraction and again, counter-productive if you're trying to pay attention to anything else.
I'm not saying that you have to be offended. I'm telling you that I am uncomfortable here, please stop.
I respect your discomfort. But if there is also a roomful of people who want to talk about sex, who maybe even enjoy the discomfort of sprinkling often-taboo subjects into their discussion, can we as a community accommodate both them, and people who are discomforted? Can we just go to separate rooms?
Sure, but it seems out of place at a tech conference, and I'm not sure it was clear that this was for a subset of the community. In fact I think it was pitched as a general survey of the API, so people seem to have confused it for something the whole community is into, or stands for or something.
We are _wired_ to pay attention to this stuff Yes, it's a huge distraction and again, counter-productive if you're trying to pay attention to anything else.
I'm not saying that you have to be offended. I'm telling you that I am uncomfortable here, please stop.