The whole "porn = loneliness" equation is really getting old.
People with sex lives watch porn.
People in relationships watch porn.
Females watch porn.
Couples watch porn together.
Couples make porn together.<p>Masturbation is natural, normal and healthy, and it's about time we stop the false "watches porn = lonely loser" equation.
Well!<p>> For most people (the asexual population and the abstaining Japanese youth notwithstanding), sex with another person, especially in the context of meaningful intimacy, is a source of joy.<p>> Watching porn by yourself all the time, although physically stimulating, is spiritually the opposite of this.<p>Participating in autosexual intercourse can absolutely be both meaningful and a powerful source of joy. It consists in the appreciation of one's own body, mind, and spirit as a full and complete flowering of the universe. Consensual sensory experiences allow that being to approach its own devotion fully.<p>On a less metaphysical note, this is really a marvelous denouement to the sexual brinksmanship that's infested society over the past few millenia.<p>From an individual perspective, I love having sex with myself. When partners I find attractive want to share, so much the better. It's not as much fun trying to convince them to, though, that part pretty much sucks, and this provides the best BATNA ever in that negotiation.
> It’s not difficult to imagine a future where a cohort of the male population — especially those who have trouble connecting with members of their preferred sex — sits at home many nights with the Oculus Rift strapped to their heads, living out their sexual fantasies in VR, having their psychology further shaped and distorted by the persistent absence of connection with real life people. Regardless, the future of porn is here, and it is fucking intense.<p>There's already a hit song about basically this. From 1979. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZF4Z6smOrZw" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZF4Z6smOrZw</a> Also related: this film from 1973 <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westworld" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westworld</a> .
My favorite explanation for the Fermi paradox [1]: we're not seeing any alien life because they have figured out a way to entertain themselves which is far more appealing than searching for ET life forms.<p>Anyway, before embarking on regular VR sessions with pr0n, see this video first [2]<p>[1] <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermi_paradox" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermi_paradox</a><p>[2] <a href="http://www.ted.com/talks/zimchallenge" rel="nofollow">http://www.ted.com/talks/zimchallenge</a>
Our culture (at least in America) is poorly equipped to deal with the sexual freedoms that technology is increasingly granting. Porn is definitely a problem and a source of loneliness for many, but just like video games, its not the technology itself that is the problem.
<a href="http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=73799908&postcount=309" rel="nofollow">http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=73799908&postcoun...</a> is perhaps relevant. (Japan a couple of years ahead as always?)
"As Mike Kovalsky said at the end of our interview, “We really believe that virtual reality will drive the relationships between humans in the next years.”"<p>More like _divide_ the relationships between humans.
On one hand I'm ok with more and more dudes being taken out of the game because they're too busy fapping to increasingly more realistic pornography. At the same time, it's not obvious that the kind of men that are happy to fully migrate their sexual needs to VR porn weren't already out of the dating pool in the first place. They likely were already consuming regular porn as surrogate for their sexual lives.<p>On the other hand, I realize that women aren't going to sit still, and they're probably going to have to adapt to this new world, meaning they'll possibly follow along and slowly dating might become mostly virtual.