Yes, I agree completely, except instead of the need for a partner or the replacement of social companion, there is the most primal relationship.
But consider the potential to choose the immersive fantasy. It might be called sexual, but it is more embryonic.
Keanu in the matrix portrays this well, a pod which places the user into the warm oceans. It places the immersive AI between original mother and planetary mother, an individualization tailored to biology and preference. Babies who were monitored by CCTV, wearing ekg time pieces, with pseudodreaming, sleeping while wired up.
Like, consider if the person could have puberty suppressed hormonally by a reactionary software, would that individual even know the desire for conquest that leads to sexual intimacy? Then the entire act of pornography and technology to assist the masturbatory exercise would be converted, since it would be a "retreat" rather than "diving in" when the urge of man is seeking the womb. And yes, civilization could be preserved either way, except the individual has a new contractual obligations and society must somehow step up as the surrogate. Today, gatekeeping and matchmaking, and tomorrow, the sense of esteem and completion could entirely impinge on a different sense of duty. It could shape their entire view of morality, and more of one's kind could be determinant on these suprasocial contracts. If a person pushes the snooze button too long, then they can truly adjust to a "stork society", robins who nurse blue jays.
Yes, I agree completely, except instead of the need for a partner or the replacement of social companion, there is the most primal relationship.
But consider the potential to choose the immersive fantasy. It might be called sexual, but it is more embryonic.
Keanu in the matrix portrays this well, a pod which places the user into the warm oceans. It places the immersive AI between original mother and planetary mother, an individualization tailored to biology and preference. Babies who were monitored by CCTV, wearing ekg time pieces, with pseudodreaming, sleeping while wired up.
Like, consider if the person could have puberty suppressed hormonally by a reactionary software, would that individual even know the desire for conquest that leads to sexual intimacy? Then the entire act of pornography and technology to assist the masturbatory exercise would be converted, since it would be a "retreat" rather than "diving in" when the urge of man is seeking the womb. And yes, civilization could be preserved either way, except the individual has a new contractual obligations and society must somehow step up as the surrogate. Today, gatekeeping and matchmaking, and tomorrow, the sense of esteem and completion could entirely impinge on a different sense of duty. It could shape their entire view of morality, and more of one's kind could be determinant on these suprasocial contracts. If a person pushes the snooze button too long, then they can truly adjust to a "stork society", robins who nurse blue jays.
The puberty blocker angle is particularly disturbing in the context you outline
Horrific
Quite disturbing