Every second of every day of the year, search engines deliver results on more than 400 “sex” searches. In the world of any, anyone can access sex, anytime, anywhere.
No wonder 34 percent of the readers of Christian Woman Today’s online newsletter admitted to intentionally viewing sex-related material on the web every month.
But in the world of any, you don’t have to settle for viewing sex anymore, you can virtually have sex. With anyone, anywhere, anytime, in any shape and form. No need for lights out when you take your top off, you can have a six-pack worth showing. No need to stay indoors, you can do it in any environment you want, and no need to settle for the boy next door when you can go at it with someone on the other side of the globe.
And anyone can rid themselves of bad sex experiences – you can even have your own support team standing by, upgrading your software (there’s a suiting term…), troubleshooting, Q&A:ing your S&M. Just check out sexgenetics.com, one of several companies offering solutions for developing your own characters, and training your sex skills in any online environment. Right now focusing on Second Life, but promising to fuse any on- and off-line environment by 2010 (“Demolition Man style”).
Meanwhile, the reported off-line sexual debut age among teenagers has gone up by two years in the last couple of years…
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The sexual debut age has gone up by two years? That really surprises me. I don’t know if it’s good or bad. My first thought is that it’s really bad. Perhaps parents around the world would think that this is a good thing though, since pregnancy or STD’s aren’t possible outcomes of “digital” sexual encounters (not yet anyway). But if people trade the real deal for on-line fooling around, then what’s next?
We’ve already seen how kids of all ages invest hours and hours in practicing Guitar Hero instead of picking up a real guitar and starting a band, they play football on their Playstations and Xboxes instead of going out and actually kicking a ball, they trade hanging out ”in real life” for Facebooking, MSN:ing, texting etc. etc. But sex?
Could it be that all the on-line sex is lowering expectations among teenagers, making them less interested in making off-line love? I mean before Internet offered all these possibilities, young girls and guys could only fantasize about it, having seen films, pictures, heard stories etc., which most likely created massive expectations. It seems to be a completely different thing today. If you have a sex fantasy, all you have to do is to find someone somewhere on-line with similar taste and live that fantasy out…kind of.
Maybe it’s just me getting old and obsolete.
Lars,
We’re all getting old and obsolete. In fact, we keep getting older and older…
I totally agree with your reasoning. I think it’s a fantastic paradox – the drive that has gotten us this far (seeking new opportunities and building expectations) could also be the force that stops human kind…
emvehå,
MD