Absence makes the heart grow fonder, but the Modern Man needs to get his rocks off now.
A new wave of prototypes and gadget concepts is about to make virtual sex more realistic for those who can’t handle the real thing, or whose imaginations — deadening by years of internet porn exposure — are running dry.
An example:
The KissPhone is designed for remote kissing. It has a mouth which you kiss – it subsequently measures the pressure, percussion speed, temperature, and sucking force of your mouth, transmits those same parameters to the remote user’s Kissphone where it recreates your kiss for your teleparamour.
The devices are part of the niche technology called teledildonics, a hellish marriage (straight out of a David Cronenberg flick) of sex toys and wireless internet connections.
Try not to look. Photo: CC/Pedja PUSELJA
The pushers of teledildonics, by the way, are easy to spot: Try looking for the busty gal with the “sex positive” blog, who favors t-shirts with clever, internet-savvy slogans.
Sex and war, ever the two drivers of human ingenuity.