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Performance: How to F*ck in/with a Non-Newtonian Fluid

altering the physics of sex

Maggie sits in a plastic vat of ooblek, smiling in underwear. An audience looks on.

At the Object-Oriented Orgasm weekend at Commiserate, my group set out first to explore better sex devices for three people to use at once.

We quickly realized that there's a lot of physical safety and technical concerns with three-way toys. Then someone* posed the question: what if instead of an object, we actually need a different environment?

What if you had sex in a viscous fluid? In a web? We realized that non-Newtonian fluids might interact in interesting ways with vibration.

Over a weekend, we made a big vat of Ooblek and experimented with how the substance changed the physics of sex.

You can view our closing performance experiment on YouTube (starts around 1:13:28).

*I think it was Daniel?

Commiserate, University of Chicago. With Daniel Lipson and Wanbli Gamache