WIRED -- May 27 -- When dorkbot decided to host a presentation for its members about the current state of teledildonics, they asked Violet Blue to step into the spotlight for a hands-on demo of the Thrillhammer, the first commercial teledildonic sex machine, housed at the Museum of Sex in New York. While Blue has written articles and lectured on the history of teledildonics, this is her first public demo. One of the factors hindering the development of internet-facilitated sex is that no one has yet figured out how to serve a basic consumer level, although HighJoy and Sinulate are both trying hard. Tribe should make social-networking with a really easy interface for anonymous sex that involves teledildonics.
The full article was originally published at Wired News, but is no longer available.
Mark Brooks: Might be time Woody Allen made a sequel to Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex. I'll keep an eye out for the first (adult) online personals site that is 'teledildonics enabled.' Lest we forget, online dating sites are in the business of love...which means, by default, we are also in the sex business. Public sex awareness is becoming ever more open, and sites like www.passion.com (a FriendFinder co-brand of AdultFriendFinder) are reaping the reward.
IFriends.net started doing this a few years ago. The "technology" looked pretty sketchy, back then. I guess if you can afford a RealDoll you can afford a jungle-gym contraption that connects to the interweb. AdultFriendFinder members have been doing this for a long time as well although it is not officially offered on the site. What does passion.com have to do with public sex awareness?
Posted by: Dave Evans | May 31, 2005 at 10:41 AM
Quite interesting Mark Brook's site!!!
Perhaps The Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex must get involved
in researching this topic.
http://www.indiana.edu/~kinsey/
Posted by: Fernando Ardenghi | May 31, 2005 at 04:17 PM
Yikes. I wrote about this development on my blog (http://www.find-a-sweetheart.com/blog/2005/04/from-kathryns-what-will-they-think-of.html) It certainly is high on my weirdness scale.
Along with being a Romance Coach, I am also a psychotherapist with almost 30 years practice, and I have seen more and more problems arising for folks as this sort of technology becomes available. In the mid 1990's, I saw my first couple break up because of an email relationship that budded into more. I saw a middle aged married woman low on the attractiveness scale who became addicted to contacting men over the net, haveing virtual sex using web cams, and then meeting them in shady motels for face to face (or other parts) sex. Caller ID has (thankfully) put an end to obscene phone calls, but our ability to handle complicated interpersonal and sexual situations is not keeping up with the technology that facilitates it.
Posted by: Kathryn Lord | Jun 02, 2005 at 10:47 AM