Future of Sex
tagline
  • Remote Sex
  • Virtual Sex & Entertainment
  • Robots
  • Human Augmentation
  • Sex Tech
  • Dating & Relationships
  • Bizarre Bazaar 18+
  • Future of Sex Community
  • Remote Sex
  • Virtual Sex & Entertainment
  • Robots
  • Human Augmentation
  • Sex Tech
  • Dating & Relationships
  • Bizarre Bazaar 18+
  • Future of Sex Community
  • Machinery of Joy: Is AI Already Making Sexwork Obsolete?

  • Tomorrow’s Programmable Matter Sextoys Will Be Everything We Want—Whenever We Want It

  • Men’s Only Club: Does the Synthetic Companion Industry Really Have a Sexism Problem?

  • Red States, Risqué Secrets: Who’s Really Obsessing Over Sex?

  • No Hentai, Please: Japan Prosecutes AI Porn Prompters

  • Out of Sight, Out of Touch? Sweden Moves to Ban Adult Cam Performers

  • Spin Me Right Round: Cupsland’s Twirl Does Everything A Stroker Should—And More

  • We-Vibe Sextech Report: Talk, Grab a Toy, and Enjoy

Future of Sex is supported by our readers. When you buy through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.

Home > Remote Sex > Techno-sex Researcher on Orgasmic Frequencies and Massive Online Haptic Orgies

Remote SexVirtual Sex & EntertainmentImmersive Entertainment
Home›Remote Sex›Techno-sex Researcher on Orgasmic Frequencies and Massive Online Haptic Orgies

Techno-sex Researcher on Orgasmic Frequencies and Massive Online Haptic Orgies

By Alice Bonasio
October 5, 2016
3792
2

Dr. Trudy Barber lays bare the human condition.

Dr. Trudy Barber holds a Ph.D. in Computer Fetishism and Sexual Futurology.

“Everybody has a different orgasmic frequency,” explains Dr. Trudy Barber as our conversation gets going. Apparently, these frequencies are so unique that they could be used to identify us, much in the same way as fingerprints.

The implications of that are quite significant. If we can learn to identify such frequencies, she says, the next step would be to start tweaking them, and orgasmic training could definitely become a thing in the future: “If you could technologize your responses in terms of Hertz and waves and frequencies, you could code it in and manipulate it like a synthesizer, accentuating sounds and bases and all the rest of it.”

Massive open haptic online orgies

With a doctorate in Computer Fetishism and Sexual Futurology, Barber is certainly qualified to talk about such things. For the past 20 years, she’s been investigating how people become intimate with technology, and is credited with creating one of the first immersive VR sex environments while still an undergraduate at Central Saint Martins in 1992.

For her Ph.D. research, she embedded herself in a community of people who were using technology to explore their sexual identities, including several transgender people and cross-dressers from different countries. At the dawn of the modern Internet age, this community started buying medical equipment online, modifying it to suit their purposes, and attaching them to private servers which they built from scratch.

“There was this one individual, a man, who would come into this room and attach/insert all these different customized devices to his body, everything from dildos to nipple rings. The others in the group would then log onto this private server from wherever they were, and remotely stimulate those different devices. It’s what I called a MOHOO—Massive Open Haptic Online Orgy.”

Getting intimate with technology

The most interesting aspect, Barber found, was how this interaction directly affected the man’s identity. When he was in the MOHOO he perceived himself as a woman—Stephanie. It posed all sorts of questions around the relationship between sexuality, technologies, and the concept of the multi-mediated body. What they created was, in many ways, a precursor to the hybrid virtual-physical environments emerging now as virtual reality experiences.

“Back when I started people thought I was crazy, talking about how we were going to get intimate with each other and lose ourselves within those virtual worlds. Now it’s becoming mainstream. When we used to put the big VR headsets on we looked like aliens from some weird science-fiction movie, but now it’s trendy to have your Cardboard or Oculus Rift. All these social experiences are now big business of course.”

Sex toys are also big business. The industry is worth an estimated $15 billion, and teledildonics is a burgeoning field. There are now even University-level courses on Industrial Design focusing specifically on the sector. Owning that type of object is no longer a “dirty little secret” for most people.

But fetishization is not necessarily something you experience in a seedy Soho shop. Barber is actually more interested in how we can have feelings of attachment and intimacy for our everyday technology gadgets. As an example she tells me how, after buying her new smartphone, she couldn’t “put the damn thing down.”

“Technology can enhance your sexuality, your perception of self, and your relationships, but at the same time as it enhances those things so brilliantly it can destroy other things too. There are equally valid arguments on both sides and it’s really interesting how one person’s pleasure turns out to be another’s element of disgust. It’s fascinating from a research perspective because it really leaves the human condition open to so much scrutiny and revelation. That’s why it scares people, because in a way it reveals too much of ourselves, to ourselves. They’re afraid they might actually like it.”

Trudy Barber spoke at FutureFest 2016, a festival of ideas which explored—among other things—the Future of Love with curator Ghislaine Boddington and trailblazers in the sex tech arena such as Cindy Gallop from Make Love Not Porn.

Republished with permission from Alice Bonasio

Image source: FutureFest

Alice Bonasio

Alice Bonasio is a technology journalist, startup advisor, and consultant specializing in VR, mixed reality, and strategic communications. She is also a technology writer for FastCo, Quartz, The Next Web, Ars Technica, and Wired.

In 2019, Veer TV named Alice one of the Top 10 Virtual Influencers You Should Be Following. Currently, She is writing a book called “VRgins about how virtual reality will change relationships in the new digital age.

Alice is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of Tech Trends—a fast-growing technology website that reports on disruptive technologies such as virtual reality and the Internet of Things (IoT).

She is a top influencer and speaker in the XR/Immersive Tech/Spatial Computing space and took part in a 2020 BrightTalk live panel on commercial augmented reality. Alice was also speaker at the START Summit 2017 that was held in Sankt Gallen, Switzerland.

In 2019, Alice gave a lecturer at the University of Oregon, School of Journalism and Communication called “Demystifying: Business Journalism in a Digital Age.” She spoke about business reporting in the tech sector and how she built Tech Trends as a platform and monetizable brand. She also shared insights on the future of immersive storytelling and what that means for the next generation of communication professionals.

Alice is an alumna of the University of Warwick, Centre for Cultural and Media Policy Studies.

She has held PR, communications, and marketing positions in companies like RefME, Mendeley, Badoo, and The Filter. Alice also held an advisor role at Summly, a web platform and smartphone app that provides algorithmically generated summaries from thousands of sources. The company was acquired by Yahoo.
Previous Article

Sex Toy Maker We-Vibe Sued for Collecting ...

Next Article

Award-winning VR Porn CEO on the Future ...

Related articles More from author

  • RobotsSex TechVirtual Sex & EntertainmentVirtual SexImmersive Entertainment

    Futurist Ross Dawson On The Future Of Sex: Sexbots, AI, and Unfolding Social Changes

    March 7, 2024
    By M. Christian
  • A pink Vibease panty vibe appeas in front of two smarphones displaying screenshots from the Vibease app.
    Remote SexSex Tech

    Vibease Review: Panty Vibe Gives Aural Pleasure to Long-Distance Lovers

    August 19, 2019
    By Jenna Owsianik
  • Masterbation Autocorrect
    Virtual Sex & Entertainment

    Why Autocorrect Might Be ‘Ducking Up’ Your Sext Life

    December 20, 2019
    By Chelsea Nash
  • Kiiroo CEO Toon Timmermans appears on a stage wearing a face mic and a vest.
    Remote SexSex Tech

    Kiiroo Plays to Its Strengths with New Round of Sex Tech Partnerships

    November 21, 2017
    By Natasha Turner
  • Dating & RelationshipsVirtual Sex & EntertainmentVirtual Sex

    Dating Sims for Women Take off at Tokyo Games Show 2016

    September 23, 2016
    By M. Christian
  • Adult starlet August Ames on set with BaDoinkVR's new Virtual Sexology. (PRNewsFoto/BaDoinkVR)
    Virtual Sex & EntertainmentImmersive Entertainment

    BaDoinkVR Offers Sex Therapy in 8-Part VR Porn Series

    August 12, 2016
    By M. Christian

Leave a reply Cancel reply

You must be logged in to post a comment.

  • RobotsSex Tech

    Digisexuality Vs Carbonsexuality:  Criminal Justice Expert Lara Karaian Talks Sexbot Brothels

  • Image Showing Long Distance Relationship between Couples using Sex Toys
    Remote SexVirtual Sex & Entertainment

    Sales for ‘Big-ticket’ and Internet-connected Sex Products Are Unusually High

  • Sex Tech

    3 Top Vibrator Types That Are Great for First-Time Users

3DXChat
DreamSexWorld offers a stunning XXX 3D world filled with incredibly interactive erotic experiences.
  • TOP REVIEWS

  • Screenshot of a sexbot from adult entertainment game

    The Best Adult Games on Steam [UPDATED]

  • Screenshot of FeelConnect app future of interactivity intimacy available on Apple and Google Store

    The Best Sex Game Apps for Couples [UPDATED]

  • Project QT is the most popular RPG sex game at hentai sex game portal Nutaku.

    The Best RPG Sex Games [UPDATED]

  • Multiplayer Online Sex Games

    Review of the Best Massively Multiplayer Online Sex Games

    0
  • Harmony ai sex doll from RealDoll

    State of the Sexbot Market: The World’s Best Sex Robot and AI Sex Doll Companies ...

Discover the best virtual sex parties and 3D sex worlds.
Share and discuss what the world thinks about our sexual future. Join the Future of Sex Community A blonde and light-skinned love doll face sppears next to the text Go now realdollxthe future is real.

Like Us on Facebook

Virtual Lust is a 3D interactive sex game.

Top Sex Tech Industry News & Insights

  • Sex Tech News Roundup
  • Future of Sex Expert Series
  • Sex Tech Conferences, Adult Expos, Sex Hackathons, and Virtual Event Listings
  • Sex Science Fiction

Follow us

  • Home
  • About
  • ADVERTISE
  • Contribute
  • Story Ideas
  • Sitemap
  • Privacy Policy
  • Terms and Conditions
© 2011 - 2022 Future Exploration Network
This website or its third-party tools use cookies to improve user experience and track affiliate sales. To learn more about why we need to use cookies, please refer to the Privacy Policy.

By clicking the agree button or continuing to browse through the website, you agree to the use of cookies. Accept Privacy Policy
Privacy & Cookies Policy

Privacy Overview

This website uses cookies to improve your experience while you navigate through the website. Out of these cookies, the cookies that are categorized as necessary are stored on your browser as they are essential for the working of basic functionalities of the website. We also use third-party cookies that help us analyze and understand how you use this website. These cookies will be stored in your browser only with your consent. You also have the option to opt-out of these cookies. But opting out of some of these cookies may have an effect on your browsing experience.
Necessary
Always Enabled
Necessary cookies are absolutely essential for the website to function properly. This category only includes cookies that ensures basic functionalities and security features of the website. These cookies do not store any personal information.
SAVE & ACCEPT