New Foundational Metaphors for Human Thought

In this paper we present an argument that sex serves as a foundational metaphor for much of computer science, Human-Computer Interaction and human thought more generally. While human sexual behavior is highly variable throughout history and geography, we further argue that a specific orientation toward sexual behavior underlies most of the current work in human-computer interaction. Further, we explore a set of different possible orientations toward sex and what these may imply for approaches to HCI as well as human thought more generally.