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Facial Recognition Technology Lets You Find Your Erotic Doppelganger

By M. Christian
September 28, 2016
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Cam site searches its model database so you can hook up with a lookalike.

A photos showing facial recognition tech in action.

It’s really one of those “why didn’t I think of that?” things.

Someone at the erotic live cam search engine site Magacams.me [NSFW] had more than likely heard of facial recognition. Then, no doubt with an ah-ha moment, they realized that it could allow anyone to upload a picture of their choosing to find a match against all their existing webcam models.

In short, it's now possible to view an racy webcam show with someone who looks like yourself—or anyone else for that matter.

Finding faces

Facial recognition has been around for quite sometime, with early work being done on the field back in the mid 1960s. But with the coming of higher-resolution imaging systems (meaning more detail), along with more sophisticated programing, facial recognition has improved its accuracy considerably.

The principle is actually relatively simple: a camera scans a face, or the image of one, breaks it down into its component parts, and then compares that against a database looking for a match.

Everyone seems to want to know yours

Facial recognition is something a lot of people are interested in, and that governments are as well should come at no surprise. However, many social media platforms—such as Facebook—and advertisers are pouring serious research money into the technology, hoping someday to track not just your face, but to target you with whatever advertising or other media the want.

Naturally, this is something that a whole other group of people are concerned about, including the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) and the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU)—to name just two. So far, however, the field is still a bit of a battleground: one side concerned about the right to privacy and others seeing facial recognition as a useful tool in identifying individuals for serious security concerns—or just to sell soap.

The search for me

Using a less-than-flattering selfie I found the results to be pretty, well, generic: more than quite a few guys with glasses, some with white beards, and a more than a fair share of hair-disadvantaged gentlemen. The most, according to the site, they could find was someone with a 45% match. I’d hardly say any of them possessed my innate, and if I may be so bold, magnetic sexuality.

Albert Einstein photo

Going back to the folks at Magacams.me, your intrepid reporter decided to follow in the footsteps of The Next Web and try to find my own doppelganger—all for the sake of journalistic experimentation, you understand. Yeah, that’s it. Nothing else. I assure you.

But, still, that the site managed to break my shot down into these components and compare them against their database, and in a matter of minutes, is still pretty staggering.

I considered submitting a picture of Donald Trump but, thankfully, didn’t go through with it.

Trying a polar opposite, I next gave one of my heroes a shot. Alas, Albert Einstein only got me more generic old men—though in poses and behaviors that would have made the founder of modern physics blush.

Finally, and feeling more than a bit silly, I uploaded a shot of another icon, but I guess either the system couldn’t handle it or there really isn’t anyone out there doing sexcam work who looks like the statue of liberty.

On the face of it

In the end, when the jokes are put aside, we come to an essential question: do you own your own face? What Magacams.me has done isn’t really all that special: the technology is out there, the genie is out of the bottle.

Other sites will be following suit, if they haven’t done so already: allowing you to find movies, TV shows, book covers, and then security cameras—all where you, or anyone else, might appear.

In today’s world, where fear far too often seems to trump civil rights, we can only hope that when we stop laughing at sites like Magacams.me we wil begin to realize the seriousness that underlies it all—and that the face we put forward should always be ours to share, or not.

Image sources: Southbank Centre, Orren Jack Turner

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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