The Age of Artificial Intimacy Is Already Upon Us

It started with humans pushing machines’ buttons. Now they are pushing ours.

When the COVID-19 pandemic sent so many people into work-from-home isolation, it funneled much of our social interaction onto the internet. Children learn via Zoom classrooms, colleagues meet on Microsoft Teams, we buy almost everything online. And friendships unfold on Facebook, Instagram, FaceTime, WhatsApp, and — once the quarantinis start flowing — Houseparty.

The need to socialize by app inadvertently hastened the dawning of a new age: the age of artificial intimacy. In my new book, published today in the Northern Hemisphere, I discuss how an emerging ecosystem of digital lovers, virtual friends, and algorithmic matchmakers is slowly growing up around us, nourished by the rich deposits of data that users leave as they meander through their virtual worlds.

Read the entire article at Psychology Today

2 Replies to “The Age of Artificial Intimacy Is Already Upon Us”

  1. I’m John, an award-winning sex blogger who has tried and reviewed more than 100 sex toys. As you may not have failed to notice, I am a big fan of experimentation in bed (in life at all) and so are sex toys. Sex toys can be a great addition to your bedroom routine, regardless of your gender, anatomy or sexual orientation. I think that if you can talk openly about sex(ual desires) in your relationship, starting to talk about sextoys shouldn’t be a problem either.

  2. Good day Robert,

    My name is Kaïs Latiri from Quebec, Canada. I’m Founder of 50shadesvr (50shadesvr.com), ohmydoll (Ohmydoll.ca) and (Playdoll.ca) to name a few.

    I read your recent article : What virtual reality and artificial intelligence will mean for sex, love and intimacy.
    I am the founder of

    I would like to tell you that i totally agree with you when you say that you side with the machines and against the puritans and that artificial intimacy could deliver a more relaxed, inclusive, and humane sexuality, but only if societies have enough maturity to give it a chance. In fact, puritans and religious are not conscious about how technology can improve and help us explore our sexuality. Technology might be used as a substitute for prostitution or at least an additional offer that accomodates thoses in real life relationship but for some reason need to explore outside the frontier of their couple. In fact, we think that what we call high-tech body rubs will strengthen the relationships inside the couples.

    here you may find more information about what we do. We believe that we are ready to collaborate with researchers and universities from all over the globe. I believe that sharing access to part of our datas, our knowledge, share and talk about present studies and talk about possible future studies would help to contribute in opning the eyes of the public on the hidden potential of sex-tech. We are willing to open our doors to researchers to make their experimentation with our technology and equipment. Let me first introduce you 2 of our businesses:

    – OHMYDOLL.CA

    Established in 2018, in Montreal (Quebec), Canada, Ohmydoll is opening their next location in Edmonton Alberta, Canada, in February 2022. Two additional locations are expected to open in 2022 in Canada with Calgary,Alberta as one of them.

    Ohmydoll assisted the city of Edmonton in creating the new category of business related to sextech (category: Adult Services) that matches the service we provide which is creating experiences using sextech that customers enjoy on our premises. It is the first time ever in Canada that regulation is being updated and made it clear that a new industry may be on the verge of becoming mainstream.

    Ohmydoll Edmonton will operate under the business location name of Meta Spa VR.

    Specifics

    Ohmydoll is not like common dolls brothels. In fact, dolls represents a fraction of the experiences Ohmydoll is offering its customers. Other sextoys are included in the experiences. Part of the sextoys are designed and developed internally with the prospect of enhancing customers’ pleasure. We believe that the future of the sex industry is changing. We are sitting in the first wave by introducing innovation, enhancing the interaction between the VR and sextech and investing in creating different VR packages that suits the customers fantasies. We are helping to create a new industry based on innovation.
    Main purpose: Ohmydoll is intended to provide safe and alternative pleasure to all individuals, male, female as well as trans experiences. We often advertise with our slogan: Don’t cheat on your wife. It summarizes that the need to have sex outside of its intimate relationship may be achieved without breaking the law or own values.

    B- PLAYDOLL.CA

    Similarly to Ohmydoll, Playdoll uses the Flow technology from 50shadesvr. VR sensual and sexual content differs from Ohmydoll’s offering to reflect the unique concept around Playdoll. Playdoll is classified as an Adult Body Rub and not Adult Services as it is for Ohmydoll. Adult Body Rubs are legal in Canada. Body rub activity is defined as the physical manipulation of the soft tissue of the human body, including any manipulation of an adult for an erotic purpose.

    Specifics

    Playdoll.ca is intended to be the first worldwide high tech body rub with copyrighted experiences. Testing the concepts with customers took place in the summer of 2021 in Montreal,Quebec. Results were astonishing. The level of satisfaction noted from the lucky beta customers was incredibly positive even with the rate averaging $350/1hour. Let’s also mention that there’s no sex involved during the sessions and no blowjob. It’s all about the touch techniques of the body that depends on the content and quality of our immersive VR experiences. Customers feel immersed between 2 worlds; the virtual and the reality. Sometimes those worlds converge, sometimes they diverge and other times they complete each other.
    Main Purpose : Playdoll is intended to replace the now old fashion Body Rubs. Our technology based experiences for Playdoll will help achieve the following goals :
    a. Providing sex without sex: yes, you heard it right! Even, the famous Matrix Movie actor Keanu Reeves, spoke in a recent interview about immersive sex by using: sex without sex. That’s the beauty of what we propose. We propose a legal and ethical way to obtain pleasure without overriding any regulations or moral values. The majority of actual body rubs are not complying with laws and physical acts of sex occurring inside their premises (blowjob, penetration etc). At Playdoll, we provide the technology and the unique copyrighted experiences that customers will enjoy, anything else is strictly prohibited. Customers will come for the art of stimulation and not for the basic act of a blowjob or penetration.

    b. How to ensure that our body rub will not be a place for typical brick and mortar sex services as other exotic massage parlors. First: Our (practitioners) are assured to make the same or more revenues by working as a Playdoll performer than working as an escort. That means that she will not have substantial motivation to have sex with the customer and we will attract practitioners that want to keep the stream of revenues without having to have sex with customers. Second, during the session customers will be wearing, at all time, the VR headset, which means visual interaction with the Playdoll (practitioner) will be limited. This decreases the chances of the customer asking for ‘extras’. We make it clear to our customers that there’s no physical sex allowed, otherwise, they will be banished from the establishment. Our experiences are unique and artistic, we need to protect the essence of our creation by making sure the rules are followed.

    THE OVERALL MAIN PURPOSE OF OUR CREATIONS IS THE (SAFE) SEX INDUSTRY

    All present and future brands (Ohmydoll, Playdoll etc) with activities related to sex will be managed under the umbrella of VR with Dolls, a new banner created by 50shadesvr.

    We believe that the introduction of new actors in these new markets will help us all grow and gain attraction. With talented people and serious businesses based on innovation, we could change the face of the sex industry.

    We would love to present a distinction of words that we think is more suitable. It would be helpful if your blog and other articles treating similar subjects about the future of sex and sextechs in general talk about the concept of what I call safe sex industry. Because it’s what we propose. We propose safe experiences for workers and safe experiences for customers. We propose ethical alternatives that aims to reduce prostitution overall and sex trafficking. Our businesses contributes to the system by paying its fiscal duties. We help to bring an underground industry to a more transparent environment and move demand for sex to a technology related demand.

    We intend to create other businesses inside VR with dolls. We are going forward with our technology to impact different types of industries. All we do is to create solution based technologies for entities we create and manage ourselves. Licensing is an alternative we’re looking into for certain industries.

    Please visit the websites linked in this article to learn more about us. If you need any additional information from us for your upcoming articles, we’d be happy to help and share our information. We want an informed public and I personally think : IT’S TIME

    Ohmydoll.ca
    Playdoll.ca
    Vrwithdolls.com
    50shadesvr.com

    Best regards

    Kaïs Latiri
    Founder&CEO
    50Shadesvr.com

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