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Birth of the Virtual Joystick |
Compiled by GayToday
San Francisco--SafeSexPlus.com, a company based in this city, has established the world's first free, real-time "cyberdildonics" Internet facility. Visitors to the site may transform their computer mouse and telephone modem into an "Internet joystick," by using their mouse to remotely stimulate a long distance lover's vibrator or battery- powered "marital aid." The capability works from across the street or from across the world, via an everyday PC Internet connection. SafeSexPlus.com boasts that its invention is "all the buzz" and says "The Internet never felt so good." Its Web chat site promises to share its free one-on-one remote control platform with millions.
Available only to adults and offering free software that equips them to remotely control everyday vibrators and other sex devices in a private, point-to-point internet connection, the new service has been launched in partnership with Intimate Friends Network. SafesSexPlus is celebrating the arrival of the "cyberdildonics" age. Techno-critics, however, are groaning. Some are quoting Dr. M.L. Moreno's "classic" work Who Shall Survive? Moreno says:
It is increasingly a distinct possibility, the final outcome of people verses their technological robots may not be the total physical annihilation of people. People may in a subtle fashion become robot-like in their interaction and become human robots, or robopaths. This more insidious conclusion to the present course of action would be the silent disappearance of human interaction. In another kind of death, social death, people would be oppressively locked into robot-like interaction in human groups that had become social machines. In this context, the apocalypse would come in the form of people mouthing ahuman, regimented platitudes on a meaningless dead stage.
Allen Hadhazy, president of Friends.net perceives such technology as CUSeeMe as having certain limitations. SafeSexPlus.com, he exults, holds "exclusive internet rights" and has "no competition and likely never will." |