Technology and pornography have always maintained close ties. New technologies are once again the hotbed of pornography, and virtual reality is the bed that the sex industry wants to touch.
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Piper Jaffray, the major investment bank and asset management company, predicts that by 2025 pornographic content will occupy the third place in VR content (followed by video games and sports related content). The dogma of the pornography industry has always been: The more realistic it is, the better, right? But in the case of virtual reality, perhaps people should be careful.
Some well-known psychologists have raised concerns about the increasingly "real" impact of adult entertainment.
The misguided result of this is that in fact, true sexual behavior is not what is manifested in pornography. “Because erotic works continue to increase its 'reality', it’s becoming more and more important.†Marty Klein, author of “Sexual Research,†said: “Erotic industry consumers and their peers need to understand the process of making these things. And these are not the same as real sex."
Didn’t anyone think about children?
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Although erotic VR is still a new thing, it is rapidly becoming the mainstream, because companies like Samsung and Oculus Rift (face book acquisitions) keep developing cheap helmets and adult video sites like PornHub, VR. Sexual content flows to the market almost free of charge.
There is no doubt that VR pornography offers a more intimate experience than the traditional far-sighting erotic visual experience of magazines or DVDs.
After pressing my iPhone 5 onto a cheap VR helmet, I experienced some online VR porn videos, and the number of watches that can be watched so far is still sluggish, especially at Pornhub where the amount of content exceeds 3 million. But when it comes to results, it is actually quite amazing even on cheap VR helmets.
Neil Malamuth, a professor at the University of California, Los Angeles, devoted himself to the porn industry for decades. He recently spoke about VR pornography. “I was fooled by the experience of VR porn videos that far surpass other traditional forms of pornography,†he said. “You feel like you are in a room and a woman is talking directly to you. This kind of natural expression far exceeds traditional video in terms of privacy."
But these eye contact and direct dialogue are just a kind of one-way information transmission. When illusion gets closer to the real critical point, you will start to expect it to be true - or at least a first-person adventure. .
Therefore, this kind of convincing false intimacy will certainly create some psychological or social problems.
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Malamuth compared the effects of eroticism and alcoholism in an interview earlier this year. "If you ask me whether this wine is good or bad, then the answer is to score. It is very bad for people whose lives have been destroyed. For others, it can have a decompression effect. Let them The sex life is more interesting. I think that many reports also show that eroticism will have a similar effect to wine based on cultural conditions, individual factors, and consumer groups."
According to this logic, the effects of VR will also vary according to different individuals. When the experience becomes more real and some elements become more prominent, there will be some side effects, especially for those who are sexually aggressive. "VR pornography is undoubtedly fueling these high-risk groups."
On the other hand, the intimate illusions brought about by VR pornography will allow some people to feel satisfied without negative influence. "For some people, VR pornography brings physical and psychological well-being and a real partner to sex," he added.
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When a new technology emerges and speaks of its advantages or disadvantages, society will always like to make some bold, unfounded inferences. (At the beginning of the 20th century, some experts in the medical field proposed that bicycles would make women become homosexual.)
Therefore, not everyone thinks VR is another important medium after postcards, magazines, videotapes, or DVDs. "I think the fear of VR pornography is not much different from the fear of the new technology of our team before," said clinical psychologist David Ley. Just as bicycle seats can make women become homosexual, there are also arguments that vibrators (sex toys) can make women lose interest in men, or that people in Utah believe that the Internet pornography industry will end the marriage structure.
"I'm very skeptical that people who aren't used to buying adult videos at ordinary times would go and buy VR porn videos," Ley added. "In fact, VR pornography may end up failing by asking people who just want to seek negative experiences to do more extra activities." ."
VR technology also brings a new feature that is indeed different from previous eroticism. It allows users to switch roles and feel from the perspective of their sexual partners. For example, a man can switch to a woman's perspective and vice versa. “You look down and you can see your private parts and beautiful thighs. This is a brand new experience that may be troublesome to some people. But to others it may be their own sensuality and lustfulness. Shocked and entered the door of a new dimension."