I suspect that the inventors of the computer never imagined that it would someday become a sexual partner for people around the world. Well, who knows? Maybe they did.
Most people have heard of "cybersex," in which two or more individuals are connected remotely via computer network for the purpose of sending each other sexually explicit messages describing a sexual experience. In one form, this fantasy sex is accomplished by the participants describing their actions and responding to their chat partners in a mostly written form designed to stimulate their own sexual feelings and fantasies. Cybersex usually includes real-time masturbation.
A webcam may be used to enhance the cybersex experience by providing nude images of one's partner, and the participants may watch each other masturbate in a streaming video format.
Now, a new technology, called teledildonics, may offer cybersex partners an extra toy with which to engage in remote sexual activity. Teledildonics offers participants a means of sending tactile sensations over a data link. In other words, if both participants have the software and the appropriate apparatus, then they can use that apparatus to stimulate their partner physically over the Internet. One receives the stimulation that the other provides, although the remote "touching" may also be simultaneous. In that respect, it's like a remote control dildo (artificial penis) or something like a fleshlight (artificial vagina), used to bring the other party the "feel" of real sexual activity.
Sound intriguing? Sound a little too robotic?
Well, nothing replaces the touch of a warm body beside you, but such an option might find favour in say, a couple in which one of the partners is separated by military service overseas.
So ... what are you wearing tonight?
