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The Future of Sex and Architecture: Love Hotels, Microapartments and VR

By M. Christian
January 25, 2016
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A look at tomorrow’s (small) pleasure spaces.

Tokyo is home to many love hotels designed for erotic encounters

Inarguably, we are living in a time of incredible changes. Practically every field has been utterly transformed: medicine, government, publishing, the arts, social interaction, transportation, and so many other fields are totally unlike what they were only a few years ago.

Architecture is no exception. In fact, the whole concept of home—a space to rest, work, and play—is undergoing a total reinvention that’s also certainly lead by new technologies and techniques.

But also by sex.

Home is where… what is?

There are two main driving forces in architecture: space and money. But, coming up on two decades into the 21st century, we are running critically short of both.

This photo displays a microapartment, a living space less than 360 square feet.

In answer to this, architects have been reducing cost and size. Places like San Francisco and New York, for instance, have already begun approving microapartments: spaces no bigger than 360 square feet.

For those who want their own home—but affordable and similarly micro—the tiny house movement is gaining serious momentum. Often built on trailer frames, they offer portability as well as a way of hoping to get around zoning laws in American cities that forbid houses under certain square footages.

This leaves a problem, though: intimacy. An apartment or tiny house is fine for one or two people, but erotic play usually requires a bit more space.

Or, to be more exact, it’s fun to romp around in a house bigger than a sneeze.

Room enough for love

Bedrooms used to be designed for sleeping—as well as other (ahem) activities. In fact, a look at the history of architecture reveals a lot about the sexual proclivities of their eras. The Brutalist school seems to lend itself to state-sponsored positions. The Victorians were prim and proper on the outside, yet wild and debauched behind closed doors. During the 60s, sex was augmented by mirrored ceilings, rotating beds, and lots of nice cushions.

We are, however, approaching times when we just don’t have space for anything except for small and affordable.

But we can get a glimpse of where sexual architecture may very well be going by looking at what’s been happening in many countries for quite some time.

Love hotels

To people used to McMansions and sprawl, the idea of a hotel designed from the ground up to be a getaway for erotic adventures might seem unusual. But for residents of places like Tokyo and Mexico City, where space is a premium commodity, and—people being people—sex is on everyone’s mind, the logical conclusion is to offer a place to get what you can’t at home: sensual pleasure, sexy amenities, and lots of space.

In Japan, the concept is called a love hotel: a rentable room that occasionally offers services like adult films, sex toys, and hot tubs or saunas. The perfect getaway for those interested in amorous times, soundproofing, privacy and elbow room. It’s easy to see the possibilities of love hotel-type establishments popping in many other cosmopolitan areas.

So if your microhome doesn’t have enough room for what you like to do sex-wise then there may be an elegant and very full-service hotel just down the street.

No reality, no limits

Here’s yet another alternative for erotic playgrounds when space is at a premium: to use non-physical spaces.

We already consider the concept of what is reality to be pretty flexible. Humanity exists not just in flesh-and-blood form, but also as information.

And this is where architecture is also seeing an intriguing artistic, and sensual, renaissance.

In a world of brick and mortar buildings, there are all kinds of limitations, like the aforementioned space and money. But in virtual environments there are none.

In virtual reality, architects are already creating incredible erotic environments: massive old-school bordellos, entire BDSM coliseums, high-tech cybersex latex nightclubs, and anything else you or anyone else might find exciting.

Coupling physical space to digital ones is actually pretty simple. We already have the first steps in this via developments in virtual and augmented reality headgear.

In its most simplest and affordable form, a sexual playground could simply be a piece wearable of tech. Slip on a pair of VR goggles and you could experience a wide array of erotic environments—all from within your comfy microhome.

Augmented reality gear could also be used to project into your field of vision, overlaying images onto the walls of your home. Want a piece of erotic art or a window to your lover’s house? Just digitally superimpose it wherever you want it. It’ll always be there—as long as you wear your augmented reality glasses

If you want to dispose of the headgear, and more than likely pay a bit more, you could have the option of using haptic technology. As with virtual and augmented reality, we are seeing some promising developments with that already: lasers and focused sound, both hidden in the walls of a house, able to project not just a visual illusion of whatever you wish but to also provide a sense of touch. Star Trek’s holodeck may be only a few years away.

Your future home

These and other new architectural concepts are already altering our concepts of home: spaces that are perfectly affordable, beautifully efficient, and absolutely pleasurable in all kinds of ways.

And, even more importantly, it could very well change what we think of as living.

Image sources: homestilo, DOOOP

M. Christian

M.Christian (they/them) loves nothing better than exploring the intersections of sex and technology—and speculating on the future of both. A highly regarded erotica writer they have six novels,12 collections, 100+ short stories, and 25 anthologies as an editor to their name. Their non-fiction regularly appears in many sites, but they're most proud of being a regular contributor to Future of Sex.

Of their erotic fiction, Tristan Taormino said that “M.Christian is a literary stylist of the highest caliber: smart, funny, frightening, sexy—there's nothing [they] can't write about… and brilliantly.”

Reflecting their unique ability to sympathetically and convincingly write for a range of genders and sexual orientations, their stories have appeared in multiple editions of Best American Erotica, Best Gay Erotica, Best Lesbian Erotica, The Mammoth Books of Erotica, and others. Their collection of gay erotic fiction, Dirty Words, was a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award.

While a majority of their stories have been collected into books like Dirty Words, their fondness for combining sex and science fiction is clearly evident in collections that include Rude Mechanicals, Technorotica, Better Than The Real Thing, Skin Effect Effect, Bachelor Machine, and Hard Drive: The Best Sci-Fi Erotica of M.Christian.

As a novelist, M.Christian’s versatility is on full display with Running Dry, The Very Bloody Marys, Brushes, Painted Doll; and the somewhat controversial queer BDSM/horror/thrillers Finger's Breadth, and Me2.

M.Christian has worked on the industry’s production side as an Associate Publisher for Renaissance E Books and as a Publisher for Digital Parchment Services. The latter dedicated to celebrating the works of science-fiction legends such as William Rotsler, Jerome Bixby, Jody Scott, Arthur Byron Cover, Ernest Hogan, and James Van Hise.

Covering topics like BDSM safety, sexual education, senior sexuality concerns, queer and gender issues, plus reviewing a variety of sex tech products, M.Christian’s non-fiction has appeared on sites like Kinkly, Tickle.Life, Sexpert, Queer Majority, Sex for Every Body, and—of course—their ongoing work for Future of Sex.

If there’s anything M.Christian enjoys more than writing, it’s teaching. A featured presenter, sometimes with their friend Ralph Greco Jr, at national sex and BDSM events, they have lectured on kink play (with an emphasis on safety), polyamory, boosting sexual creativity, and erotica writing--for beginners or those wanting to go pro.

M.Christian is a cohost on two popular sex-education podcasts: Love’s Outer Limits with Dr. Amy Marsh and Licking Non-Vanilla with Ralph Greco, Jr.

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