I just got an interview request from a journalist working on an article for a big men’s magazine on the following topic:
..this is the 2nd great sexual revolution - the first, in the 60s, when abortion & the pill shifted sex from being about procreation to recreation. Along with other scientific advances, I think it fundamentally led women to ask the question: do we need men at all?
Driven by sex-machines and love-computers (ie vibrators, teledildonics, even at a simplified, 1.01 level internet dating), this 2nd sexual revolution is automating love and sex, shifting it away from people to machines. It may lead to the question: do we need women at all?
I told him I’ll overnight him a copy of The Sexual Revolution 2.0 and that we can talk next week.
I can’t believe how vindicated I feel, that this niche I’ve been documenting for five years (and then some), a niche I poured into a book that my own publisher didn’t want to promote, is indeed infiltrating the mainstream … even if the magazine editorial board is approaching it from the predictable naive angle of “gasp machines are going to replace us! i mean, just look, the washing machine replaced laundresses and the car replaced stagecoach drivers, now robots will replace husbands!” … even if I get tired and cranky repeating the message of why tech won’t replace humans … every time I can get even a piece of my sensible point of view out there, it’s a Step, because I know someone will get it. And that’s one more person who will stand up to the fearmongering.
8 responses so far ↓
1 Seth // Oct 8, 2008 at 3:57 pm
By the time that corporate media understands the Sexual Revolution 2.0, the majority of young people will have integrated sex-tech so seamlessly, that sex without tech would be an impairment to the connection.
What the over-40 editorial types don’t fathom is that nowadays — many youngsters very first sexual interaction is enabled by a technology conduit. It’s not news nor revolutionary if that’s how you’ve always done it.
2 Nobilis // Oct 8, 2008 at 4:26 pm
Congratulations!
Another step towards world domination.
3 Amber Rhea // Oct 8, 2008 at 7:35 pm
Woohoo!
4 Tragic Magic // Oct 9, 2008 at 8:18 am
It just goes to show that persistence does pay off. Well done.
Mark.
5 regina lynn // Oct 9, 2008 at 2:20 pm
btw i didn’t mean to imply that i’m the only person who ever looked at / wrote about sex-tech, just that all of us who have, have often encountered resistance from the mainstream magazines, which fear to stray from the formula (”101 ways to blow his/her mind in bed”). LOL
6 honeyandhandcuffs // Oct 22, 2008 at 6:44 am
*sigh* People are always afraid of change.
In my mind sex tech means more personalization and more options, which is always a good thang.
Davi
7 Counsel // Oct 27, 2008 at 11:32 am
I haven’t read the book(sorry), but I agree that tech can’t replace “it”–whether that “it” is male, female, or hermaphrodite.
I can’t imagine “the other” being replaced unless all the person is looking for is to get their (fill in the blank here) off.
What would be missing is what drives many of us–the desire of being wanted, the desire of wanting for something more than just getting off.
I want to drive her (my lover) crazy. I want to see her reaction as I touch, tease, lick, kiss, frustrate, and all the other wonderful things I can think of during lovemaking or during a tease-fest. Seeing her react makes me react, and I just can’t see me getting off to, well, seeing me react. It just isn’t the same for me–perhaps those journalists out there haven’t really thought about it like you/we have…
Keep talking Regina. Maybe now those “closed” minds will “open” up to see that all of this is good.
8 Michele // Oct 31, 2008 at 9:51 am
The question should be “Do we need men at all”?
Women are trained that having a great sex drive is not appropriate. Well, you don’t know what you don’t know….
I have purchased over 14 vibrators for women that have never used them and not only do they love them but they have helped 100% of time for the hot flash issue…lol
I am one of those that did not really discover my sexuality till I was 45 (yes, really stupid - but better late than never). Not only do I believe that sex keeps you younger and healthier - but what a great way to exercise. Too bad there are too many women that do not demand an orgasm and seek how to accomplish that…for themselves not others. Our society STILL has so many tabus in this area.