As technology finally finishes eliminating the physical risks of sex, the social rules surrounding it break down; preferences, orientations, and fetishes diversify and proliferate until they’re beyond hope of easy enumeration. The concept of romance is forgotten entirely, and sexual preference-sets replace religions in the social structure of society as each develops their own subculture and community and infrastructure, in which most everyone can meet and make friends with which they can have their preferred brand of sex. I would call this the fetish-set-as-tribe and romance-dissolved-into-friendship future.
As direct and non-invasive brain-computer interfaces reach their potential and proliferate, full-sense full-immersion virtual reality worlds will offer sensory experience equal or better than the real world with none of the risks. As people take the path of least resistance to their desires, interacting with other humans through the virtual worlds, most people stop having sex “with their material bodies” all together, as the real world offers no better sensory experiences and is far worse optimized for meeting compatible personalities. Relationship dynamics don’t look all that different from online-intimate relationships today; jealousy proves to be unconquerable human nature, and romantic attachment either endures on its own or is deliberately preserved. I would call this the ultimate-social-internet future.
Two possibilities for sexual weirdtopia:
As technology finally finishes eliminating the physical risks of sex, the social rules surrounding it break down; preferences, orientations, and fetishes diversify and proliferate until they’re beyond hope of easy enumeration. The concept of romance is forgotten entirely, and sexual preference-sets replace religions in the social structure of society as each develops their own subculture and community and infrastructure, in which most everyone can meet and make friends with which they can have their preferred brand of sex. I would call this the fetish-set-as-tribe and romance-dissolved-into-friendship future.
As direct and non-invasive brain-computer interfaces reach their potential and proliferate, full-sense full-immersion virtual reality worlds will offer sensory experience equal or better than the real world with none of the risks. As people take the path of least resistance to their desires, interacting with other humans through the virtual worlds, most people stop having sex “with their material bodies” all together, as the real world offers no better sensory experiences and is far worse optimized for meeting compatible personalities. Relationship dynamics don’t look all that different from online-intimate relationships today; jealousy proves to be unconquerable human nature, and romantic attachment either endures on its own or is deliberately preserved. I would call this the ultimate-social-internet future.