AcquaintEd LLC provides services and generates the research, policy frameworks, and ethical innovations needed to build a world where human connection, health, wellbeing, and digital literacy are recognized, protected, and advanced across governments, industries, tech platforms, schools, and health systems.
Through interdisciplinary collaboration with industries spanning social work, public health, AI, and human connection domains of intimacy and human sexuality, we're bridging the gap between evidence and action to create a safer, more informed, and more connected future for all.
The Foundation of AcquaintEd:
Ethan’s Reading Picks:
Ethan Freedman: Memorandum for 2025Sex Education Methodologies and the Evolution to Sexual Technologies: A Feminist and Queer Epistemology and Praxis of Holding Accountable Mediums for Sex Ed.Mapping the Ecological, Pedagogical, and Digital Influences on Adolescent Boys' Sexual Values: A Case Study of Puberty and Technology Based Sex Education MethodologiesHealth and Sex Ed. Advancements: Technology as Mediums for the FutureSex Education Methodologies and Pornography: Accountability of Adult Entertainment Companies as Sources for Sex EducationSex Work and Parasocial Relationships: The OnlyFans’ Platform as a FacilitatorA Systematic Review of the Effects of Psychedelics on Multiple Facets of IntimacyPsychedelics and Consciousness: Expanding the Conversation Necessitates Discussing Awareness Generated in Therapeutic Settings
Recent:
Mapping the Ecological, Pedagogical, and Digital Influences on Adolescent Boys' Sexual Values: A Case Study of Puberty and Technology Based Sex Education MethodologiesQueering Advocacy: Social Work at the Edge of Human Sexuality, Technology, and LiberationA Future of Flesh, Care, and Curriculum: Social Work at Intersections of Human Sexuality and Sex Education