The government takes a substantial interest in people’s sex lives. People are expected to register their sexual preferences with government agencies. A certain level of sexual education and satisfaction is presumed to be a basic right of humanity, along with health care and enough income to live on. Workers are entitled to five days’ annual leave for seeking new or maintaining old romantic and sexual relationships, and if your lover leaves you because you’re working too hard, you can sue your employer and are likely to win. Private prostitution is illegal, but the government maintains an agency of sex workers, who can be hired for a fee, or allocated free of charge to adults who apply on the basis of “sexual hardship” (defined as having not had sex in the last six months), and form part of “optional field work” for sex education classes at the appropriate level. There are government funded dating and matchmaking agencies. Also, mandatory registration for Creepy Doms and Terrible Exes.
Creepy and more than a little disturbing? Yes. Arguably better than the standard Sexual Utopia in some respects? Yes, if you’d asked me when I was 18 or even 21. What use is a sexually permissive society when you, personally, aren’t getting any?
Pushing the weirdness farther: assume tech for adjusting orientation, level of desire, and desire for exclusiveness. Either there are no side effects, or the side effects are considered to be low compared to the effects of people not getting what they want sexually.
Individual sexual parameters are adjusted to maximize sexual harmony in each person’s social network (individual change is minimized—this is presumably NP-hard), so that sexual parameter combinations change as they move through social networks.
Consent is preserved for individual encounters, but being subject to having one’s parameters adjusted is mandatory.
Sexual Weirdtopia:
The government takes a substantial interest in people’s sex lives. People are expected to register their sexual preferences with government agencies. A certain level of sexual education and satisfaction is presumed to be a basic right of humanity, along with health care and enough income to live on. Workers are entitled to five days’ annual leave for seeking new or maintaining old romantic and sexual relationships, and if your lover leaves you because you’re working too hard, you can sue your employer and are likely to win. Private prostitution is illegal, but the government maintains an agency of sex workers, who can be hired for a fee, or allocated free of charge to adults who apply on the basis of “sexual hardship” (defined as having not had sex in the last six months), and form part of “optional field work” for sex education classes at the appropriate level. There are government funded dating and matchmaking agencies. Also, mandatory registration for Creepy Doms and Terrible Exes.
Creepy and more than a little disturbing? Yes. Arguably better than the standard Sexual Utopia in some respects? Yes, if you’d asked me when I was 18 or even 21. What use is a sexually permissive society when you, personally, aren’t getting any?
Pushing the weirdness farther: assume tech for adjusting orientation, level of desire, and desire for exclusiveness. Either there are no side effects, or the side effects are considered to be low compared to the effects of people not getting what they want sexually.
Individual sexual parameters are adjusted to maximize sexual harmony in each person’s social network (individual change is minimized—this is presumably NP-hard), so that sexual parameter combinations change as they move through social networks.
Consent is preserved for individual encounters, but being subject to having one’s parameters adjusted is mandatory.