Erotica’s Evolution: How the Written Word Will Get More Exciting in the Years Ahead
Sexy stories plus cutting edge sextech equals infinitely arousing possibilities
Before reality went virtual, companions became artificial, and sex got together with tech, people enjoyed writing and reading explicit fiction.
Up against those titillating innovations, you’d think sexy stories and books would have lost at least some of their overwise stimulating appeal.
Far from it! Thanks in part to the digital publishing revolution, erotic literature is flourishing—embracing sextech, ushering in what could very well be a golden age of interactive, immersive, and exciting adult entertainment.
It was a dark and stormy—
For most of its long history, erotica was something no one, at least openly, discussed. Sure, it’s been and will no doubt remain immensely popular—not to mention profitable—but heaven forbid you get caught writing, selling, or even daring to read it.
Made worse by a failure to legally define it, even US Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart famously said he couldn’t but somehow would “Know it when I see it.”
Erotica would have stayed on the maybe-illegal, maybe-not fringes if it weren’t for the Internet and personal computers and then the stratospheric rise of smartphones and tablets.
Viola! What felt like overnight, anyone could download and (ahem) enjoy all the explicit books and stories they wanted without anyone being the wiser.
Although the genre may have dipped a bit, likely due to market oversaturation, it shows no sign of losing its power to excite millions or perhaps billions of happy readers—numbers that may exponentially rise as erotica steadily becomes more than merely words on a page.
Tell me a story
We’re already seeing—or better to say hearing—how erotica is changing, i.e., the growing number of audio-erotica companies and platforms. Some, like Bloom, use human readers, though AI-voiced stories may be the norm.
As OhCleo has shown, a benefit to employing AI narrators is that users can select whatever voice pleases them the most.
Fun as it is to listen to a person or computer program read you a sexy story; the tech isn’t exactly advanced. After all, back in its clandestine past, erotica was available on cassette—complete with plain brown paper packaging.
What we need, and what may be right around the corner, is a way to experience erotica like never before.
Can you feel me?
Once promising, now another of sextech’s many failures, B.Sensory’s fascinating approach involved embedding explicit stories—including, I’m proud to say, a few of my own—with special coding so at various points the reader’s Internet-connect smart sextoy would vibrationally highlight certain passages.
The company might be gone, yet the technology might return. AI would make coding fiction to activate sextech far easier than having to do everything by hand.
Your book, your way
As we recently covered, AI might eventually replace flesh-and-blood erotica authors like yours truly.
In all fairness, that’s not liable to happen for at least a decade or more, as like the Internet hasn’t shut down Broadway or digital publishing made books or magazines extinct, AI-authored erotica may become one more entertainment option.
What I’m excited about is the intersection of AI, VR, and a whole bunch of other futuristic initials with erotica’s universal appeal.
Tales of a sexual tomorrow
For example, take AI’s media generation capabilities and add in next-gen virtual reality gear—not forgetting full-sensory haptic tech—so we’d have our choice of reading or physically experiencing lines like “their skin was bathed in luminous skein of perspiration.”
If the thought of the writing turning into something beyond putting one word after another gives you the cold chills, rest assured, as AI won’t drive human authors to extinction. This type of technologically enhanced erotica will be a choice for those who want it—or not—for people who prefer their sexy stories the old fashioned way.
Personally, I find telling stories thrilling, with or without visual, tactile or AI assistance, for when it comes to creation erotica, greater possibilities to explore means more opportunities for personal as well as professional growth.
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