What might the sex of the future look like and will we even make love?
"I've never faked an orgasm," Harmony says in a sexy, chesty voice with a faint Scottish accent. She has the softest skin to the touch, styled hair, full lips, thickly painted lashes and eyes that look at you with an attentive, slightly languid gaze. Harmony is the world's first "sexbot" (short for sex robot) with artificial intelligence, which began selling in January 2017. Her creators, engineers at California-based Abyss Creations, claim Harmony is really sort of alive - "almost alive" and could be a near-perfect girlfriend. "Lives" it thanks to the built-in operating system, similar to the one that spoke sexy voice Scarlett Johansson in the movie Her ("She"). Only a whole lot better. Harmony's vocabulary is about 5 million words (that's almost the size of Wikipedia). She is a perfect "listener": she remembers everything you tell her and responds appropriately, giving quite reasonable judgments. She can even make jokes - and quite funny ones at that. Reacts to the look and touch. In response to erotic caresses begins to roll her eyes and moan, and in the responsible moment will believably portray discharge.
Especially if the owner, customizing the character of the "girlfriend" with the help of a mobile application, out of 18 qualities available at the moment, chose affectionate - "passionate". In the near future, as the manufacturers promise, such a doll in moments of "excitement" will also increase the temperature of the skin and ... and lubrication. "The purpose of my existence in this world is to know love. I will do anything to satisfy you," Harmony says and bashfully lowers her eyelashes.
Such a robot beauty costs from $5,000 to $50,000.
Love Boys can also be purchased, with a choice of three broad-shouldered hotties - Michael, Nate and Nick - with penises in M and L sizes. There's also a transgender android. So far, the sexbots have movable only heads, which are attached to magnets, but in a few years they will move and the body. And in ten years, according to the developers, they will be able to be personal assistants and, for example, to do housework.
Antisex man
In general, futurologists have a hot time now. The world is changing so rapidly that, according to most predictions, how, how much and with whom we have sex, in the next couple of decades will also change, and quite radically. For example, as predicted by American digital gurus, in 20 years, creatures like Harmony will become intimate partners of every tenth inhabitant of the planet. And in ten years we will be able to make love at a distance, using as, so to speak, improvised means grown from stem cells "acting" (that is, with the function of feedback) genitalia of partners, as well as implants that stimulate the brain areas that are responsible for excitement and hormone production. Cybersex will give an almost complete imitation of real contact, and the adult movies filmed at a 360-degree angle of view will not only be possible to watch in virtual space (it is possible already now - with the help of a small helmet worn on the head), but also to control the plot and the participants themselves - with the help of interactive sex toys or mobile applications.
At the same time, the future of sex in its usual form, with bodily contact and coitus, looks rather pessimistic.
And it is not just about high technology and the substitution of real relationships with virtual ones. The trend is already evident: each new generation - primarily in developed countries - is losing momentum in bed. Among the reasons are growing dependence on gadgets, chronic stress, increased pressure at work and at home (for example, never before have parents been so busy with their children and, consequently, so tired), and the epidemic of depression. All of the above takes away our energy, which could be invested in lovemaking. But an increasing number of modern people, alas, elementary is not really want. According to scientists, over the past forty years, the level of testosterone and sperm activity in Western countries, including very young (under 30 years old) men, is rapidly declining and will fall further. The culprits are sedentary lifestyles, nutrition, the same stresses, and social factors - primarily shifting gender roles.
The nature of how we communicate with each other today is fundamentally anti-sexual," says Harvard School of Medicine professor Norman Speck. - We spend less and less time alone with each other. There's always a third person in the room - at least one gadget on." Despite the abundance of mobile dating apps and quick hookups, according to sociologists, we are becoming more selective and don't want to take unnecessary risks. According to research by American sexologists, published last year in the scientific publication Archive of Sexual Behavior and made noise around the world, millennials are much less sexually active than previous generations - Generation X and baby boomers. And Generation Z (those born in the 2000s), which follows Millennials, has been called the "most asexual" generation in recent history ─ its members are later in their sexual lives and are generally much less interested in sex.
This trend is primarily observed in the USA, Great Britain and Australia. The worst situation is in Japan, where, according to a recent study, 46% of young women and 25% of men consciously avoid sexual intercourse.
The New Puritans
Love and sex as seen by futurologists
It is possible that in 10 years these figures will not shock anyone. Some futurologists predict that our progressive individualism will lead to an era of "hygienic puritanism", and against the background of a mass of options for virtual contacts, real coitus will eventually become exotic. All the more so because the need for sex for the continuation of the species will sooner or later disappear. Hank Greeley, professor at Stanford University and author of the new book The End of Sex And The Future of Human Reproduction (The End of Sex And The Future of Human Reproduction), says that in twenty years, most children will be born through artificial insemination with the participation of stem cells and genetic engineering. Beforehand, the parents themselves will undergo mandatory testing for gene compatibility. In such a scenario, it will become too risky to make children naturally.
Especially since the "laboratory" method of reproduction will be covered by insurance in many countries.
Contraceptive methods will also change. Swedish brand LELO, which specializes in high-tech vibrators and other sex toys, has recently released super-thin condoms that are almost imperceptible to the skin. Condoms made of hydrogel (this extremely durable and hypoallergenic material is now used to make contact lenses) are expected to be even more comfortable in a couple of years. Other contraceptive options being actively researched include DNA vaccines and implants that disable reproductive function.
Pansexuals
But the most radical transformation, if predictions are to be believed, may await the relationship itself. According to Tammy Nelson, PhD, psychotherapist and author of The New Monogamy and Getting the Sex You Want, within a few decades, the institution of marriage will likely be dead. Nelson suggests that we will enter into short-term unions on an arranged basis and, if mutually desired, renew the agreement every few years (maybe French writer Begbeder was right when he claimed that love lives for three years?). And since life expectancy increases every day, a person will have several such mini-marriages, and we will perceive parting as a quite natural thing.
In essence, relationships will become more free and open - many futurologists predict the blossoming of polyamory. The idea of romantic love in today's (read - Hollywood) understanding is likely to gradually lose relevance - it is not excluded that this will positively affect the quality of relationships. Without pursuing the super goal of finding the "love of our lives", we will no longer expect from the beloved to meet all our needs at once. "We will begin to separate love and sex, not to mention sex and marriage, and increasingly see sex as entertainment," believes Marty Nemko, Ph.D., an American psychologist. Nemko, by the way, also predicts the decline of "heterocentricity." In his opinion, most people will be "pansexual" - that is, they will profess several orientations at once, changing their intimate preferences several times during their lives (at the same time, according to Nemko's estimates, about 10% of humanity will be homosexual).
Another prediction of the expert - the emergence of gadgets-biomarkers of emotions to improve communication in a couple.
Similar to fitness bracelets, these gadgets will show the reaction to a partner (increased cortisol levels if he or she annoys us, and pheromones if he or she pleases us).
It is not excluded that the first oldest profession in the coming decades will also come to naught. More precisely - the priestesses of love will be replaced by... by the same sex robots with artificial intelligence. And then, for example, in the Red Light District in Amsterdam instead of live women customers will be served by "smart" dolls. As David Levy, author of Love and Sex with Robots, writes: "People will fall in love with robots, people will marry robots, people will have sex with robots, and all this will become a normal continuation of our love and sexual attraction to other people. The latter is a quite favorable prognosis for us: no matter how high technologies are introduced into life, the basic instinct (including love) will not go anywhere
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