CYBERSPACE—We gotta admit we love this time of year. As writers for AVN, we spend every day of the year writing about sex, sexuality, sexual health and everything in between. What is everyday subject matter for us is a novelty, no pun intended, for mainstream media.
In the final days of each year, mainstream media is struggling to look for stories to fill their pages or websites. And inevitably, they look to sex to spice up their pages and grab readers’ attention.
Take, for example, The Times Of India, published a story claiming that in 2014, couples will forgo all the accoutrements of light BDSM/kinky sex they have purchased in droves during the Fifty Shades of Grey craze and instead look for items that “bring a longer-term investment in intimacy between partners.”
Based on the LELO Global Sex Survey 2014 which the manufacturer plans to release in full next month, the article and many like it claim that sex will be a little more vanilla in the coming months as partners try to please each other as opposed to fly their freak flags with one another.
An article from Refinery29.com claims 2014 will be “the year of the Vanilla Revolution.”
On the flip side, The New York Times is claiming that technology and sex will merge together in 2014 and the future. (Yeah, we thought that was a pretty cutting-edge prediction, too … not.)
After attending a screening of Spike Jonze’s Her, the NYT writer discusses the relationship between Joaquin Phoenix’s Theodore and Samantha (Scarlett Johansson), a computer-operating system.
“This may sound like futuristic sci-fi dystopia to some, but such sexual-techno prospects are increasingly the here and now,” the writer boldly claims, and mentions pleasure products from Minna Life and AEBN’s RealTouch. Yes, the same products readers of AVN have been reading about and seeing at the AVN Novelty Expo for years.
So, as 2013 winds down and we at AVN prepare for 2014 and The AVN Show in January, where many manufacturers will display the latest and greatest in sex toy technology, forgive us if we ignore the predictions and reports on sex from mainstream media, and get our info straight from the biggest names in the industry.
