In the American Silicon Valley, there is a boom in startups about high-tech sex devices.
Sexual behavior is undergoing a new revolution. Enthusiasts believe that people no longer need sex for reproduction: children are now conceived in a test tube. Homo Sapiens, as a biological species, underwent a transformation of sex from a way of reproduction to a way of entertainment. Therefore, the most conservative branch of human relations (since the days of the Kamasutra, people have not come up with anything new), big changes await. What will sex be like after a pandemic? Experts argued about this during the briefing "Sex of the future: what to expect from it?"
Sex is no longer only a science of tender passion, but also a high-tech process, believes the futurist and writer Alexei Turchin. It starts from dating through apps and ending with love affair, when sexual gadgets are increasingly coming to the aid of modern Romeos and Juliet. Using teledildonics technology, voluptuous people connect sex toys to Wi-Fi, while the instrument of pleasure will be with you (for example, a vibrator), and your partner can control it from even on another continent.
According to the futurologist, during the pandemic, for many couples separated by kilometers and borders, new technologies for controlling sex gadgets at a distance have become not just an alternative to sex, but have become a new sex. In the American Silicon Valley, there is a boom in startups on the topic of high-tech sex devices. For example, virtual glasses that are able to impose a cool virtual image on a real woman. Sex can now be classified as a new branch of science and technology.
- I am sure that in the next 10 - 20 years very good robots for sex will appear, - the futurologist fantasizes. - It is clear that the future belongs to artificial intelligence, which will develop through interaction with humans. Elon Musk is doing a project related to neuroimplants that can be used to amplify experiences. In addition, erotica will penetrate virtual games and soon it will be possible to play novels with virtual characters. But in the end, in the more distant future, human consciousness will be downloaded to a computer. And then the interaction of consciousnesses will occur with a deeper degree of penetration and it will no longer be the sex of bodies, but the sex of minds. What we now have - dolls - they are very unaesthetic and primitive, and in a virtual partner his intellectual part will be attractive, it will be more than just a doll. It will be a full-fledged fem-bot, an ideal woman. You can fall in love with such a partner, as it was in the movie "She"
In parallel with technology in sex, sinners do not sit idly by and elevate what used to be called debauchery to the status of a new ethic. It's called beautifully - polyamory! Here, the relationship is not limited to the couple, but with whom, how and when people in these polyamorous relationships meet and have sex is discussed separately. It is very convenient - no one will smear the gate with tar and will not complain to the party committee.
However, sexologists are not so excited about the prospect of sex from flesh to virtual.
- Virtual sex can be seen as a way of addiction. Especially when it comes to people who have never had real sex. For a healthy person with a real sex life, who has formed a certain behavioral stereotype, virtual sex from time to time does not hurt, but if sexuality is not realized, then a long period of virtual relationships can make it difficult to return to real sex, ” says doctor, psychologist and sexologist Anna Fedorova.
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Now, when all prohibitions and restrictions have been removed from the topic of sex, sexual activity is considered almost a duty, and high sexual expectations lead to a lot of stress, the sexologist believes. And the flip side of permissiveness is asexuality - a complete absence of sexual attraction to anyone. What can you say here? About the times! About morals!
OKSANA NARALENKOVA