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Sex Tech Long Reads: Sex After 70 & the ‘War on Porn’ Rages On

By Jenna Owsianik
January 31, 2022
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Plus mind-gasms and sex across demographics.

After taking a month off, I’m back to share sex technology news roundups once again. This time I have more articles than usual, so I will share them in two parts.

To start, below are some wonderful long-form articles and some shorter reads.

  • XXX-Files: Who Torched the Pornhub Palace?

“When the CEO of Pornhub’s mega-mansion mysteriously burned to the ground, there was no shortage of possible suspects. Now, for the first time, the site’s shadowy founders tell their story.” (via Vanity Fair)

“Whatever the cause, Antoon’s inferno was searingly symbolic. It represented not just bad juju befalling the XXX site, but an overheated, inflammatory political climate in the ongoing war against online porn.” @VanityFair @adamgollner https://t.co/rhG4o0NQg5 #longreads

— Longreads (@Longreads) January 26, 2022
  • People Have Been Having Less Sex—whether They’re Teenagers or 40-Somethings

“Human sexual activity affects cognitive function, health, happiness and overall quality of life—and, yes, there is also the matter of reproduction. The huge range of benefits is one reason researchers have become alarmed at declines in sexual activity around the world, from Japan to Europe to Australia.

“A recent study evaluating what is happening in the U.S. has added to the pile of evidence, showing declines from 2009 to 2018 in all forms of partnered sexual activity, including penile-vaginal intercourse, anal sex and partnered masturbation. The findings show that adolescents report less solo masturbation as well.” (via Emily Willingham/Scientific American)

I spent 3 years (off & on) on this. With each interview I marveled at people's openness to sex and to change into their 80s & 90s. It was a such a privilege to be let into their lives. The Joys (and Challenges) of Sex After 70 https://t.co/OQ2lq6o0tG

— Maggie Jones (@maggiepjones) January 12, 2022
  • It’s Time to Fuse Our Brains Together and Have Long-distance Mind-gasms

“Brain-interfaced ‘crowd orgasms’, however, challenge the technical boundaries of pleasure backing such arranged [Bluetooth sex toy] orgies. Leveraging brain implants or sensors, such interfaces will tap into the pleasure centres in the brain—thereby bringing participants to new orgasmic heights and allowing them to experience the euphoria of one or several people at the same time. Intense, right?

“What’s more is that the concept doubles up as a source through which futurists can explore the potential of both brain-to-computer and brain-to-brain communication.” (via Malavika Pradeep/Screenshot)

  • CES Sex Toy News and Sex Tech Brands

From 1984 until 2011, “adult software” companies were allowed to exhibit at CES—albeit in a separate section that eventually became the Adult Entertainment Expo, reports Engadget.

Jump ahead to the late 2010s, and more adult-related sex tech like AI sex dolls and virtual reality brands are on display. Female-focused brands start to increase, but not without controversy.

In fact, CES has been struggling to embrace sexual technologies without backsliding and controversy since the beginning. Here we share our CES sex toy news and sex tech brand coverage over the years. (via FutureofSex.net)

For more sex tech headlines for January 2022, continue reading: Sex Tech News: $1M for Male Contraception, XBIZ & New Pleasure Tech

Jenna Owsianik

Jenna Owsianik is a Canadian journalist and sex tech expert. Since 2014 she has been Editor-in-Chief of FutureofSex.net, the world’s leading publication on how technology is changing human sexuality, today and tomorrow.

Jenna is the primary author of the Future of Sex Report (2016).

Her expertise covers state-of-the-art sex technologies and the major fields driving innovations in intimacy: robotics, virtual reality, remote sex (teledildonics), immersive adult entertainment, human augmentation, virtual sex, and sexual health.

A trained journalist with a Masters of Journalism from The University of British Columbia, Jenna’s reporting has appeared on Futurism.com, Al Jazeera English, CTV British Columbia online, CBS Sunday Morning, CBS 60 Minutes, Global News, and CKNW Radio in Canada and the United States.

As a sex tech industry consultant, she is especially passionate about helping companies deliver accessible services and products to people with disabilities and other underserved communities.

Jenna also runs the sites SexforEveryBody.com, a sex-positive, body-positive online magazine that promotes inclusive sex education; and DisabledSexGuide.com, an adult resource on sex, disability, and erotica.

In 2013, Jenna won two Canadian Online Publishing Awards for her work on The Pain Project, a multimedia site on global access to palliative care.

She won second place at the 2011 Awards for Excellence in Health Care Journalism’s Public Health category for her participation in the documentary Freedom From Pain.

Jenna has an Honors BA in Women’s Studies and Feminist Research as well as a French minor from The University of Western Ontario. She spent a year studying at L’Université Lumière Lyon 2 in Lyon, France.
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