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Elizabeth Lopatto
Recently, someone asked me if Silicon Valley was still into weird sex stuff…

I haven’t been keeping close track of the AI set’s various perversions — maybe they’re into chatbots, idk — but swinging, orgies, and open relationships were a major thing among the Gen X and older Millennial sets out here. Anyway, here’s an anonymous look back at sex in the Valley during the rise of Donald Trump and the #MeToo movement that followed.

I was a Silicon Valley sex pet

[Oakland Review of Books]

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