Such once-futuristic but now widely available technologies such as virtual reality and artificial intelligence are already “changing the way humans have sex,” according to sexpert Tracey Cox, in her most recent column for Britain’s Daily Mail newspaper.
Cox is the author of 16 books on sexual issues, including Hot Sex: How to Do It, and Supersex. She has also hosted several television series on sex-related topics, in addition to her regular Daily Mail column.
“Virtual sex with avatars, immersive, customized 3D porn and orgasms activated by sexbots sounds like the stuff of fantasies but all are possible now,” Cox writes in her column published online by The Mail on Christmas day. “By the end of this coming decade, it will be commonplace for us to interact sexually with whoever we want.”
Cox does not mean, of course, that humans will somehow gain the ability to have sex with any person of their choosing — at least not in real life. But even the nearly infinite menu of virtual sex options that Cox envisions raises “moral issues to wrestle with,” she wrote.
According to Cox, all that is needed will be a single photograph for an algorithm to generate an entire virtual reality avatar of any actual person, raising troubling issues of consent.
Artificial intelligence has already advanced to the point where “deepfake” videos, including porn videos, can soon be created by anyone in just minutes. But what Cox describes could be described as deepfake virtual reality.
“If that sounds decidedly dodgy, it is,” she writes. “All an obsessive ex needs to have sex with your avatar—without your consent—is a photograph.”
Cox also sees a future in which having sexual relations with a robot is commonplace, and though the market for “sexbots” is currently geared overwhelmingly toward male consumers, the sexpert says that marketers of the new sex robots are being shortsighted in excluding half of their potential customer base.
“I’ve always maintained women could be far more open to sexbots than manufacturers think,” Cox wrote. “We could, in fact, be the best customers.”
Why? Because, according to Cox, the standard way that human beings engage in heterosexual intercourse “works well for bringing men to orgasm but is shockingly ineffective for making women climax.”
She envisions a future for “male” sex robots whose equipment comes with built-in technology “to stimulate the clitoris” or “with a bulbous curved end to stimulate the front vaginal wall.”
Whatever its future, Cox says, “there’s money to be made” in sexual technology for inventors and investors who wanto to nab “their piece of the sex pie.”
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