• PrunesMakeYouPoop
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    11 year ago

    That’s a nice idea, but unfortunately physics has determined insertion to be the best way to guarantee a solid connection.
    There are other alternatives, such as pogo pins, but those are less than ideal in many use-cases.

    • Boz (he/him)
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      11 year ago

      I think the most useful reconception is not to take “insertion” out of fields where it’s a useful, literal description, and instead, take it out of the realm of gender and sexuality, where it limits imagination. It’s 2023, and no one has to do things exactly like their parents did [at least once]. Unless they want to, in which case, great, but human bodies are extremely versatile.

      …semi-relatedly, the issue with the kind of equipment I’m talking about is only partly terminology. It’s a category of similar items made by a variety of companies in different sizes and configurations, so standard terminology would not create standardization unless a lot of companies agreed to do it. It’s something where measurements often help, but there are also some more… innovative… designs where measurement is not applicable in the same way, and would be confusing.