About Artemisia de Vine

Who is Artemisia de Vine?

Artemisia de Vine is the first person to offer a systematic, usable explanation of why we have sexual fantasies, how they work, and how to effectively and ethically translate that into real-world personal relationships, AI and tech-assisted experiences. 
 

Artemisia de Vine is an Australian thinker and innovator at the forefront of integrating human sexuality into technology, culture and everyday life. Drawing on her anthropology training and decades of immersive fieldwork, she combines rigorous inquiry with lived practice to decode the hidden architecture of desire and the workings of the erotic psyche. That is, the mental part of what turns us on.
 

Rather than relying on existing psychosexual therapeutic models, Artemisia de Vine was the first to explain how all stories are actually consciousness tech that change our physical, emotional responses and state of consciousness, and that sexual fantasies are very specific kinds of consciousness tech designed to overcome our egoic inhibitions to access an array of valuable states of consciousness, pleasure and intimacy. 
 

By decoding sexual fantasies through a story and consciousness lens, she discovered how all sexual desire operates, whether a person is aware of having fantasies or not, unlocking the universal grammar and root syntax of human desire. She developed a method so that the engine beneath these stories can be mapped on a personalised level.
 

She says:
 

“Humans can’t even think without stories. Stories are the core operating system of human experiential meaning-making and thought. We think we remember facts about what happened yesterday, but we don't. We remember a story about select facts from yesterday.

Similarly, we don’t get turned on by facts like physical appearance. We get turned on by the story we project onto physical appearance, costumes, props, sexual activities, and role-play tropes. 

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Most models of erotic intelligence are focused on the wrong thing. Sex and relational tech innovators are trying to customise the user experience by focusing on the physical appearance, costumes, and props of the actors, while missing the story unfolding in the theatre of our minds. Click data and role-play tropes are not the real story either.
 

Understand how to map the unique story engine underneath each person’s sexual patterns and fantasies, and you unlock exactly how to help them ethically create real-world, and tech-assisted experiences that create the sexual satisfaction and intimacy they truly desire.” 
 

Artemisia does not build the tech herself but works with developers, companies, academics, researchers, psychologists, and innovators who do in fields of dating apps, therapy bots, AI companions, fantasy platforms, sex tech, gaming, sex research and anywhere human desire exists. 
 

From Melbourne and Sydney, she now operates globally, licensing The deVinery Method to organisations and training a new generation of tech innovators and relationship therapists.

Her work signals the next evolution in the intimacy economy: a way to integrate desire into healthy, vibrant, fulfilling systems of culture, relationships and technology.
 

The deVinery Method is the future of sex and the intimacy economy—the master key beneath every model of erotic intelligence you’ve ever known.