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Cyberdildonics:
Birth of the Virtual Joystick

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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.

Already, say the site's promoters, husbands traveling away on business are using the device to remotely satisfy their longing wives; long distance lovers "hook up" and "keep the candle burning" and thousands are using the internet to "reach out and touch somebody" in a manner that Ma Bell could not have anticipated.

The service, awash in historic implications, has been in the planning stage for several months. Its formal debut took place last week between Thursday and Sunday at the Erotica New York show in the Jacob Javits Convention Center in New York. Attractive models demonstrated the device at live internet terminals, all strictly billed as "marital aids."

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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:

The Venus II is designed to pleasure the man in your life while you're not at home
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The fate of man threatens to become that of the dinosaur in reverse. The dinosaur may have perished because he extended the power of his organism in excess of its usefulness. Man may perish because of reducing the power of his organism by fabricating robots in excess of his control.

In his groundbreaking work, Robopaths: People as Machines, Lewis Yablonsky writes:

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.

Even so, SexSexPlus boasts that the path of cyberdildonics is "healthy". Its press release says "You'll never catch a sexually-transmitted disease" Sex therapist Dr. Susan Block of HBO fame is happily quoted: "At long last someone has finally delivered on the promise of 'cyberdildonics'…the long awaited emergence of internet cyberdildonics will redefine the way our culture approaches sexuality and revolutionize the therapeutic techniques used in my profession."

Dr. Susan Block

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."