A Sexual History of the Internet With Mindy Seu from Pop Syllabus

A Sexual History of the Internet With Mindy Seu

1 hour 3 minutes Posted Apr 2, 2026 at 10:13 pm.

Meet Mindy Seu

Cyberfeminism

How sex and sex workers have influenced the evolution of the internet

Sex workers and cryptocurrency

Defining “sex work”

Why don’t more people know about the sexual history of the internet?

The physicality of technology

Female body parts named after men

How technology and the sex industry are influencing each other

How the sexual nature of the internet is affecting girls and women

Digital black books for sex workers

Sex workers currently experimenting with technology and artificial intelligence

OnlyFans

The internet as a utopic fantasy space

The future of the internet and AI

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The internet didn’t just change sex. Sex built the internet. So who actually gets credit for shaping the digital world?

Today, Christiana speaks with Mindy Seu, author of A Sexual History of the Internet, to unpack how sex, desire, and the labor of sex workers quietly built the foundations of the internet, and why that history is still left out of the conversation.

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