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AI-Assisted Sextech: Pleasure Plus or Too Smart for Our/Their Own Good?

By M. Christian
November 11, 2024
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What happens when sextoys aren’t merely Internet-connected but truly intelligent?

Red Dwarf’s Talkie Toaster; the butter-passing robot from Rick & Morty; Cyberpunk 2077’s chatty pistol, Skippy; science fiction is rife with often comedic, sentient, gadgetry.

Raising the question, what pros, cons, and unforeseen issues might arise from adding intelligence to tomorrow’s pleasure devices?  Or, to put it another way, how would you feel about having a combination sex-coach and roleplaying feature? Or would your cutting-edge plaything asking, in a sultry, steamy voice, how you’d like to come today be more off-putting than arousing?

Smart versus intelligent

Utilizing built-in Bluetooth and/or Wifi to link with other, similar sextoys; connect to a host of interactive, sometimes virtual reality, adult games; or have access to a nearly limitless range of user-customized vibration patterns; it’s no wonder a respectable percentage of today’s higher-end sextoys have more than earned their smart nomenclature.

AI may be the sextech’s industry’s newest, shiniest buzzword, but even the most advanced models aren’t truly intelligent.  They can’t typically detect anything regarding their immediate environment or use that information towards achieving a specific goal, like a sextoy learning how best to excite its owner.

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Not this isn’t in the realm of possibility, especially when you factor in how blistering fast AI technologies are developing.  Though, depending on which researchers you talk to, we may never come close to creating anything remotely self-aware—or so utterly different from human consciousness we’ll never understand it.

Brain versus mind

Back to the idea of brainy sextoys, as AI has demonstrated, software doesn’t need to be really aware for us to think it is.  Just look at the staggering number of digital companions currently available—and how they’re growing progressively more emotionally and sexually fulfilling.

Besides, equipping a sextoy with a smaller-scale artificial intelligence, something between one of those super-lifelike companions and, for instance, a smart-but-not-actually-intelligent kitchen appliance might be just what we need.  

Plus, minimal AIs would have a smaller environmental footprint—something the technology urgently needs to address, particularly as they, no matter how enjoyable and erotically fascinating they may be to converse with, aren’t worth sacrificing the earth for.

How can I please you today?

Sure, fooling around with an apparently-sentient plaything sounds like it might be fun but beyond its novelty value what else is in its favor?

For starters, imagine it’s also fitted with an array of sensors—temperature, moisture, heartbeat, the whole kit and caboodle—to monitor its user’s sexual arousal, altering its vibrations, contractions, or whatever else it deems necessary to get them where they want to go.  

Add in a selection of enticing voices for interactive, erotic story-telling fun or give it access to a far more sophisticated, sex-therapy-trained AI providing positive reinforcement coupled with a bevy of useful, pleasure-boosting tips, and you could see why a truly smart toy might be appealing.

Such devices could be incredibly helpful to those with mobility concerns.  Unfortunately current voice-controlled models are not as dependable as they could be, similar to how Siri and Alexa sometimes need repeated requests for the time or weather.

Upping the intelligence in artificial iIntelligence might do a lot towards reducing these voice-operated tech frustrations, moreso by outfitting the toy with enhanced language processing skills: not just responding to various keywords but actually learning how its user speaks, including responding when they may not be capable of speaking by detecting sounds it knows means they’re aroused—or not.

A friend—and lover—indeed

A potentially positive side effect of having a somewhat-intelligent sextoy is how, by sharing your sexual wants and desires with it, you might begin relating to it less than as a pleasure appliance and more akin to a playmade or perhaps a partner.  

In the process, it might also increase your understanding and compassion towards people, as well.  In a way, these artificially intelligent toys might mirror Shinto, the Japanese belief that all things are in their own way alive.  After all, if your chatty, friendly vibrator could be then why shouldn’t you treat everything and everyone around you as if they were, too—and thus deserving of respect, kindness, compassion, and love?

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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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