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<p>Enough with the boring candy. Stop with lame flowers. It&#8217;s 2019, and you&#8217;re surrounded by cutting-edge technology. So why not put it to work for you where it really maters? Your love life.</p>
<p>Thanks to researchers across the globe, we&#8217;re pushing the boundaries of how we express love and intimacy – from <a href="https://futurism.com/the-future-of-sex-how-intimacy-is-transforming">robotic lovers</a> to immersive adult entertainment. But not everyone wants to go from 0 to 100 that quickly. So let&#8217;s start a little smaller than <a href="https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/transplant/news_events/penis_transplant_qa.html">human augmentation</a>. This Valentine&#8217;s Day, stop living in the past and &#8220;wow&#8221; your significant other with these futuristic, high-tech sex toys and supplements.</p>
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<p>If the pleasure principle dictates how you live your life, then these products are you for. Both toys are waterproof, made with medical-grade silicone, and come with a sleek charging base/travel case to boot. <a href="https://shareasale.com/r.cfm?b=1275349&#038;u=1363912&#038;m=84127&#038;urllink=www%2Edameproducts%2Ecom%2Fproducts%2Fpom%2Deva%2Dii%2Dbundle&#038;afftrack=" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Eva II is a couple’s vibrator</a> that can be used alone or with a partner. It’s smaller, lighter, and simpler to use than similar toys on the market.</p>
<p>Likewise, <a href="https://shareasale.com/r.cfm?b=1275349&#038;u=1363912&#038;m=84127&#038;urllink=www%2Edameproducts%2Ecom%2Fproducts%2Fpom%2Deva%2Dii%2Dbundle&#038;afftrack=" target="_blank" rel="noopener">the Pom</a> sits comfortably in your hand and bends with your curves to deliver broad or targeted stimulation. Its soft, flexible body features a powerful motor with five patterns. But that’s not all. It also gives users the option to choose their own intensity or to use one of five preset speeds.</p>
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<p>The world&#8217;s favorite couple&#8217;s vibe just got better. The <a href="https://shareasale.com/r.cfm?b=1215818&#038;u=1363912&#038;m=81280&#038;urllink=www%2Eliberator%2Ecom%2Fwe%2Dvibe%2Dsync%2Ehtml&#038;afftrack=" target="_blank" rel="noopener">all-new We-Vibe Sync</a> brings you and your partner closer than ever, no matter the distance. Its new adjustable structure allows it to expertly calibrate to each unique body type. This is due to its upgraded design, which has two bendable points that better target the most sensitive parts of your anatomy without the need for any uncomfortable pressure. Plus, it’s 100-percent waterproof and made with body-safe silicone.</p>
<p>More importantly, <a href="https://shareasale.com/r.cfm?b=1215818&#038;u=1363912&#038;m=81280&#038;urllink=www%2Eliberator%2Ecom%2Fwe%2Dvibe%2Dsync%2Ehtml&#038;afftrack=" rel="noopener" target="_blank">We-Vibe Sync</a> can be controlled through the We-Connect app on your smartphone, or via its remote, which controls vibration modes and intensity. Thanks to state of the art Wi-Fi technology, the app can control your pleasure from anywhere in the world, and the improved remote works up to a distance of 3 meters. We-Connect is compatible with iOS (7 or newer), Android (4.3 or newer), and Bluetooth® Smart Ready (Bluetooth 4.0) products. Additionally, it comes with a discreet carrying case that keeps both the remote and We-Vibe safe. It also comes with a USB-powered charging base that fully charges in two hours. Last but not least, it also has a two-year manufacturer&#8217;s warranty.</p>
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Sex is one of the most powerful, fundamental human drives. It&#8217;s caused wars, and built and destroyed kingdoms. It occupies a significant percentage of most people&#8217;s thoughts. As such, it&#8217;s worth a conversation about how exponential technologies will change our relationship with sex.</p>
<h2>Dating in the Internet Age</h2>
<p>Dating in past generations was local and linear. You had access to a small number of potential mates based on where you lived, where you went to school and your social status. In the 1960s, over 50% of marriages globally, and 95% of marriages in India, were arranged. Today that number has dropped to less than 15% (globally). In 1960, the median age at first marriage for the bride was 20 and the groom was 23 years old. Today, the median age is closer to 29 for women and 30 for men. A cultural shift is happening, and it&#8217;s changing the game. Dating has gone digital. As such, it has gone from local and linear to global and exponential. Today, 40 million Americans use online dating services (that&#8217;s about 40% of the single population in the U.S.), driving the creation of a $2.4 billion online dating industry.</p>
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<p>These services transcend geography and social strata. People are matched from around the world. Between 1995 and 2005, there was exponential growth among heterosexual couples meeting online. (See the green line in the chart below.)</p>
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<p>For same-sex couples, the online dating trend has been even more dramatic, with more than 60% of same-sex couples meeting online in 2008 and 2009 (see the green line in the chart above).</p>
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<p>The implications of this are staggering. Besides moving the marriage age back, there are a number of sociological effects such as decision fatigue, gamification of dating, and the commoditization of people that will start to have population-level effects as mating behaviors change. And this is just the beginning.</p>
<h2>Dating &amp; Exponential Tech</h2>
<p>In the very near future, we will see machine learning / artificial intelligence-based matchmakers that will find the perfect match for you based upon everything from your genomics to your psychographics. Once you&#8217;re on a date, your augmented reality glasses will give you real-time dating info, calling up any info you want to know, as you need to know it. Perhaps you want to understand how she/he is feeling about you, and your AR camera is watching her pupillary dilation and capillary flushing. Like all technology, these applications are double-edged swords. My hope is that this tech actually increases the number of successful, meaningful relationships in the world and, in turn, has a net positive impact. But while dating is one side of the coin, sex is another — and the implications of exponential technology on sex can be shocking.</p>
<h2>Sex &amp; Exponential Tech</h2>
<p>Today, sex has been digitized; as such, it has been dematerialized, demonetized and democratized. Sex, in the form of pornography, is free, available to anyone with an internet connection and pervasive across many platforms. In 2015, just one pornography website reported that their users watched over 4.3 billion hours of porn (87 billion videos) that year. The proliferation of internet connectivity, online video players and streaming, mobile phones, and advertisement delivery networks have propelled pornography into a $97 billion industry. This is causing a number of negative social phenomena. More than half of boys and nearly a third of girls see their first pornographic images before they turn 13. In a survey of hundreds of college students, 93% of boys and 62% of girls said they were exposed to pornography before they turned 18. &#8220;Pornography is influencing everything from how teens language and frame sexuality to how and why they pierce certain body parts to what they expect to give and receive in intimate relationships,&#8221; says Jill Manning, Ph.D, Witherspoon Institute.</p>
<p>In Japan, a growing population of men report that they *prefer* having &#8220;virtual girlfriends&#8221; over real ones (i.e. they believe they are &#8220;dating&#8221; virtual avatars that they largely control). 45% of Japanese single women, and 25 % of Japanese single men aged 16 to 24 claim they aren&#8217;t even interested in sexual contact. Given these trends, unless something happens to boost Japan&#8217;s birth rate, its population will shrink by a third between now and 2060. In other words, there is serious concern of significant UNDERpopulation. But again, this is only the beginning — as virtual reality (VR) becomes more widespread, one major application will inevitably be VR porn. It will be much more intense, vivid, and addictive — and as AI comes online, I believe there will be a proliferation in AI-powered avatar and robotic relationships, similar to those characters depicted in the movies <em>Her</em> and <em>Ex Machina</em>.</p>
<h2>Implications</h2>
<p>VR porn promises to offer a virtual world filled with more sex, better sex, endless sex, and new varieties of sex. The dark secret, however, is that the further a user goes into that fantasy world, the more likely their reality is to become just the opposite. Many psychologists believe that VR porn may numb us to sexual desire and pleasure in the real world, leading to less and less satisfying sex. For many, VR (as well as other exponential technologies such as robotics, sensors and A.I.) will act as a complete replacement for intimacy and human relationships, as it is more easily accessible, cheaper, on-demand, and, well, controllable. As the father of two five-year-old boys, this is really concerning to me. That said, are there upsides too? Perhaps a bit of intimacy (if even technological) for those who are infirmed, aged, crippled and thereby alone. We shall see. One thing is for sure: as with every technology in history, from the printing press to VHS and the internet, pornography will be on the front line funding the advance of technology.</p>
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<p>Technology is pushing human sexuality into uncharted terrain. It’s transforming how we express love and intimacy, and holds tremendous potential for deeper emotional and physical connections. While everyone stands to benefit, this is perhaps especially true for those who face sexual challenges due to distance, loneliness, discrimination, or disability.</p>
<p>According to <a href="http://futureofsex.net/">Future of Sex,</a> five major fields are driving these changes. The <a href="http://futureofsex.net/future-of-sex-report/">Future of Sex Report</a> delves into each of them, revealing how breakthroughs are moving us past the threshold of thinking technology isolates us. Instead, here are the major ways technology is playing a pivotal role in ultimately bringing us closer together.</p>
<h2><strong>Remote Intimacy</strong></h2>
<p>Distance can be a relationship killer. But work and other factors often prevent couples from seeing each other on a regular basis. Luckily, strides in remote sex and intimate technologies are overcoming this divide.</p>
<p>Sex tech companies such as <a href="http://www.kiiroo.com/">Kiiroo</a> and <a href="https://www.vibease.com/">Vibease</a> already sell internet-connected sex toys, which are often referred to as teledildonics. These “smart” vibrators and male sex sleeves interact with each other via mobile and desktop applications. Using haptic touch technology, they record sexual motions and send the sensations between lovers who are miles apart.</p>
<figure id="attachment_67216" style="width: 491px" class="wp-caption alignright"><img class="wp-image-67216" src="https://wp-assets.futurism.com/2017/01/Screen-Shot-2017-01-11-at-3.25.04-PM.png" alt="Screen Shot 2017-01-11 at 3.25.04 PM" width="491" height="235" /><figcaption class="wp-caption-text">Your heartbeat plays, in real time, to your partner&#8217;s pillow speaker, and vice-versa. <em>Credit: Pillow Talk</em></figcaption></figure>
<p>There are also prototypes for <a href="http://futureofsex.net/remote-sex/long-distance-kissing-licking-prototypes-reveal-future-virtual-make-sessions/">long-distance kissing devices</a>, <a href="http://futureofsex.net/remote-sex/haptic-vr-hugs-telsa-suit-lets-you-embrace-your-lover-from-across-the-globe/">VR haptic body suits</a>, and <a href="http://www.littleriot.com/pillow-talk/">connected pillows</a> that transmit the sound of a lover’s heartbeat. These innovations foreshadow a future of remote sex and intimacy that is multi-sensory and immersive.</p>
<p>While the field is still in the fledging stage, in the coming decades long-distance sex will become more appealing, realistic, and emotionally intense. Innovation is expected to truly kick off after 2018, when a broad patent ruling the transmission of sexual communication online expires.</p>
<h2><strong>Virtual Fantasies</strong></h2>
<p>Want to explore your sexual fantasies in a safe and accepting setting? Adult virtual worlds like <a href="http://www.redlightcenter.com/">Red Light Center [NSFW]</a> and <a href="http://3dxchat.com/join.html">3DXChat [NSFW]</a> let you design hyper-customizable sexual environments and bodies. You can turn yourself or another avatar into your ideal sexual partner, meet real people in real time, partake in virtual dance parties, and enter non-judgemental spaces designed to cater to unique desires. For people who live in isolated rural areas or conservative regions that might view non-traditional sex as shameful, virtual sex could greatly improve overall well-being and self-acceptance.</p>
<figure id="attachment_67217" style="width: 830px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img class="wp-image-67217 " src="https://wp-assets.futurism.com/2017/01/Screen-Shot-2017-01-11-at-3.28.04-PM.png" alt="Screen Shot 2017-01-11 at 3.28.04 PM" width="830" height="595" /><figcaption class="wp-caption-text">Credit: 3DXChat</figcaption></figure>
<p>Motion-capture animations of actors help create incredibly lifelike moving graphics. But the field is set to become even more realistic. Virtual sex worlds have begun integrating remote sex toys and virtual reality. As these emerging fields merge and become more advanced, the line dividing “real” sex with someone in your physical space and virtual sex in online worlds will disappear.</p>
<h2><strong>Robotic Lovers</strong></h2>
<p>Companies are racing to create the first fully functional sex robots – although some low-level prototypes and automatons already exist. The popular frontrunner is Abyss Creations, the maker of the well-known silicone love doll line, <a href="https://www.realdoll.com/">RealDoll</a>. The company announced its Realbotix project in 2015. Its first goal is to create a talking robotic head with the illusion of sentience that will attach onto RealDoll bodies. Release of the robotic system and preorders are expected by the end of the year. However, an AI app is scheduled to launch in April.</p>
<p>The team also plans to make a fully robotic body and integrate its robots into virtual reality. The venture is especially exciting because the Realbotix team works with experts from <a href="http://www.hansonrobotics.com/">Hanson Robotics.</a> This world-renowned company is known for its sophisticated, humanlike robots with impressive AI capabilities.</p>
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<p>Yet robots with sexual functions will not simply mend lonely hearts, or only appeal to folks already attracted to artificial companions. In the future, therapeutic robots will be used to treat sexual dysfunction and help teach people how to become better lovers to human partners.</p>
<h2><strong>Immersive Entertainment</strong></h2>
<p>While adult film studios are quick to embrace virtual reality, hoping it will revitalize profits undercut by free streaming sites, the technology’s sexual potential extends well beyond pornography and into sex education.</p>
<p>Simulated VR environments offer a safe way to explore social issues and teach young people about potentially risky scenarios. For instance, a YMCA in Montreal recently launched an <a href="http://www.ydesfemmesmtl.org/services-jeunesse/outils/#limite">educational campaign on consent</a>. Using virtual reality headsets, participants entered into scripted interactions with an insistent male suitor—all from the female perspective. The organizers’ aim was to raise awareness on gender equality and violence by having people step into someone else’s shoes. A team from Emory University and Georgia Tech also announced plans to develop a <span lang="EN-US"><a href="http://futureofsex.net/immersive-entertainment/ready-play-vr-gaming-new-vistas-sexual-education/" target="_blank" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&amp;q=http://futureofsex.net/immersive-entertainment/ready-play-vr-gaming-new-vistas-sexual-education/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1484246636844000&amp;usg=AFQjCNGATdSJ8vZ_TJfVZco7TNCUcT_qFg">VR sex ed program for young women of color</a></span>. The immersive experience is meant to teach about safe sex practices, combat STIs, and prevent unplanned pregnancies.</p>
<p>Award-winning VR porn site BaDoinkVR has put its own erotic spin on sex therapy. In its eight-part series <a href="http://www.virtualsexology.com/">Virtual Sexology,</a> created with the help of a licensed therapist, adult performers instruct on Kegel strengthening for men and women, and how to improve stamina and prolong orgasms.</p>
<h2><strong>Human Augmentation</strong></h2>
<p>Breakthroughs in the medical field are opening up erotic possibilities, making us reconsider so-called sexual limitations posed by biology or inflicted through injury or illness.</p>
<p>For example, in 2016 surgeons performed the <a href="http://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/transplant/news_events/penis_transplant_qa.html">first penile transplant in the United States</a> on a cancer survivor who’d had his penis amputated. Last year, an infertile woman also received the first uterus transplant in the country. Although it eventually had to be removed, women who’ve received <a href="https://health.clevelandclinic.org/2015/11/cleveland-clinic-is-first-u-s-to-offer-clinical-trial-of-uterus-transplant/?_ga=1.231618527.151260643.1483916009">similar transplants in Sweden</a> have been able to bear children.</p>
<p>While genital reconstruction and transplant surgeries mostly rely on organ donors, 3D bioprinting and tissue engineering will eventually remove the bottleneck caused by low supply. In fact, doctors at the Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center have already created and <a href="http://www.wakehealth.edu/News-Releases/2014/Laboratory-Grown_Vaginas_Implanted_in_Patients,_Scientists_Report.htm">implanted lab-grown vaginas</a> into women with vaginal aplasia. The center has also bioengineered and <a href="http://www.wakehealth.edu/Research/Urology/Regenerative-Medicine/Engineered-Penile-Erectile-Tissue.htm">implanted penile erectile tissue</a> on rabbits.</p>
<p>In the next few decades, regenerative medicine will help more people overcome injury and sexual dysfunction. We will also have options to customize our bodies for personal sexual aesthetic and heightened erotic bliss. Microchips and internet-connected implants will also offer incredible possibilities for people wishing to merge with machines to become sexual cyborgs.</p>
<h2><strong>Creating Our Sexual Future</strong></h2>
<p>Sex and sexuality play integral roles in human interaction. These emerging technologies can help us learn more about ourselves and how to connect better with loved ones. How we used these innovations will shape generations to come. For people faced with physical, emotional, and geographic challenges, they’ll offer opportunities for sexual fulfillment that might not otherwise exist.</p>
<p>However, these topics don’t always receive the attention they deserve—as much as our society is fascinated by sex, we often fail to speak about it in a positive way that pushes discussion forward. The goal of the Future of Sex Report is to bring more visibility to how technology is shaping human sexuality, so as many people as possible can participate in creating a positive and inclusive sexual future.</p>
<p>For more information on the five major fields driving the sex tech industry, including predictions on what to expect in the next decades, <a href="http://futureofsex.net/future-of-sex-report/">read the full Future of Sex Report here.</a></p>
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<p><em>Jenna <span class="il">Owsianik</span> is a Canadian journalist and the editor of FutureofSex.net. The publication, which explores the intersection of s</em><em>ex and technology, is part of the Rh7thm group of companies.</em></p>


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