July
2010
Hump Day: It’s an orgy on the information superhighway!0
I remember when in the olden days, men would go into an adult store and travel into one of those booths with the camera style contraption, where they put in a quarter and a 30-second reel of a woman undressing down to her lingerie. It seems that today we have gone far past that. Now thanks to technology, we can make sex pretty much available anytime, anywhere and practically with anyone. It’s an orgy on the information superhighway.
Erotic emails? Sexy text messages? More and more, people are using technology as a means for engaging in sexual behavior both with their partner and with total strangers. For this Hump Day I wanted to start a discussion about technology and sex, more specifically how technology has changed (or evolved) the way we engage with each other sexually. I don’t mean each other as in you and me, I mean each other as in you and your partner or… yeah, you know what I mean.
In articles I’ve read about texting for example, many partners use this feature as a means to share little notes with each other during the day. They also use it to send naughty photos of each other and get each other in the mood while they’re sitting at their desk. I believe the folks call it sexting now. You have to wonder what people did before there was text messages and email. Did you send a physical postal letter? Then there are naughty emails. With the hope that you’re using your personal email account and not the office system, who doesn’t mind a little naughty photo appearing in their inbox every now and then?
I’ll tell you it’s also funny. With social networking services like Twitpic and Foursquare, people even use those in sexually-charged fashion. Twitpic (and others like Yfrog), for example, is a much faster way to share with the world how you look when you leave the shower or how that how new swimsuit makes your cleavage standout more. People jokingly use services like Foursquare to check into places like “My girlfriend’s pants” (and let’s hope they’re still the mayor of THAT town!).
But then look at the more broader sense of technology and sex. Think of things like web chatting. Web cams are probably one of the hottest sex-related businesses out there. You’re able to turn on a computer and a camera and interact with a live person in real-time. As you make requests, they acknowledge and perform them for you. Even things like the new “Facetime” for iPhone 4 can be the kernel for a new sex-performer related business model.
It appears to me that as technology grows, changes and modifies itself for an ever moving society, sex and how we involve ourselves with it will evolve as well. One of the running thoughts I have whenever I see a new technology announcement (especially when it’s billed as something revolutionary) is “How will the porn industry take advantage of it?” or “How will we hear about society using it to get each other off!?”
But what are your thoughts dear readers? How do you think technology has been changing sex? And let’s even throw this out there: How has technology changed or modified the way you interact with your own partner in your everday life?
Let’s sound off and get off, people!
Feel free to leave comments here on the blog or on Facebook!
I remember when in the olden days, men would go into an adult store and travel into one of those booths with the camera style contraption, where they put in a quarter and a 30-second reel of a woman undressing down to her lingerie. It seems that today we have gone far past that. Now thanks to technology, we can make sex pretty much available anytime, anywhere and practically with anyone. It’s an orgy on the information superhighway.
Erotic emails? Sexy text messages? More and more, people are using technology as a means for engaging in sexual behavior both with their partner and with total strangers. For this Hump Day I wanted to start a discussion about technology and sex, more specifically how technology has changed (or evolved) the way we engage with each other sexually. I don’t mean each other as in you and me, I mean each other as in you and your partner or… yeah, you know what I mean.
In articles I’ve read about texting for example, many partners use this feature as a means to share little notes with each other during the day. They also use it to send naughty photos of each other and get each other in the mood while they’re sitting at their desk. I believe the folks call it sexting now. You have to wonder what people did before there was text messages and email. Did you send a physical postal letter? Then there are naughty emails. With the hope that you’re using your personal email account and not the office system, who doesn’t mind a little naughty photo appearing in their inbox every now and then?
I’ll tell you it’s also funny. With social networking services like Twitpic and Foursquare, people even use those in sexually-charged fashion. Twitpic (and others like Yfrog), for example, is a much faster way to share with the world how you look when you leave the shower or how that how new swimsuit makes your cleavage standout more. People jokingly use services like Foursquare to check into places like “My girlfriend’s pants” (and let’s hope they’re still the mayor of THAT town!).
But then look at the more broader sense of technology and sex. Think of things like web chatting. Web cams are probably one of the hottest sex-related businesses out there. You’re able to turn on a computer and a camera and interact with a live person in real-time. As you make requests, they acknowledge and perform them for you. Even things like the new “Facetime” for iPhone 4 can be the kernel for a new sex-performer related business model.
It appears to me that as technology grows, changes and modifies itself for an ever moving society, sex and how we involve ourselves with it will evolve as well. One of the running thoughts I have whenever I see a new technology announcement (especially when it’s billed as something revolutionary) is “How will the porn industry take advantage of it?” or “How will we hear about society using it to get each other off!?”
But what are your thoughts dear readers? How do you think technology has been changing sex? And let’s even throw this out there: How has technology changed or modified the way you interact with your own partner in your everday life?
Let’s sound off and get off, people!
Feel free to leave comments here on the blog or on Facebook!
