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Will Snapchat’s AR Glasses Stifle Erotic Imagination or Open Exciting New Literary Possibilities?

By M. Christian
June 7, 2025
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Combined with AI, it can make words—and even your most far-out fantasies—come alive

What if picking up a book or flipping through a story, though, rather than fantasizing about how “the Wreathing-Willows were tenderly touching their back … the Kaleido-Chrysanthemums were softly caressing their cheeks” would sound or like like you’ll be able to actually hear and see those sensual, science fiction flowers compliments of your AI-image generating software running, text-reading, AR glasses.

Far fetched? Not at all, as it’s right here right now, and while technology may eventually make our literary imaginations obsolete—as in, why dream when something else can do it for you?—writers could work with and not against it to provide their readers with interactive, fully immersive, and, what we’re here for, extremely erotic experiences.

Take a look

Designboom reports these new smart, AR glasses developed by the National Library Board of Singapore in conjunction with LePub Singapore and Snap Inc. treat whatever text the reader is looking at as a prompt for its built-in AI to generate sounds played through its earpiece-mounted speakers, and project semi-transparent images onto the wearer’s field of vision.

Planned for general release sometime this year, according to designblood, the Singapore’s National Library Board sees it as “part of its initiative to use technology as a way to engage more people to read books.”

It’s in a book

When you think about it, using AR glasses to bring the written word to life is so intuitively simple that it’s more than a little baffling why its development took as long as it has.

After all, text-scanning AR glasses have been around for several years, and image-generating AI systems aren’t exactly new, either.  Now that Snapchat has set things in motion, other companies are bound to follow suit, no doubt adding plenty of other immersive features to their upcoming products.

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Naturally, sextech integration is likely one of them.  But even here, bringing something extra to written erotica is hardly new.  Way back in 2015, we reported on B.Sensory, which although it had since shut its doors, took a novel approach by coding a number of sexy audiobooks and stories. While customers listened, their Bluetooth-enabled smart sextoys would buzz, oscillate, and thrust accordingly.

Writing, reading can grow

As we mentioned, the disturbing prospect about no longer needing to use our imaginations to see, hear, taste, touch, and smell as we read is that this basically destroys literature as an art form, turning it from a thoroughly unique reader and author engagement into something intrinsically passive, inherently one-way like movies, television, or the stage.

But don’t forget, when it comes to technology and the arts, we might protest, we might argue, but if money’s to be made—or if it makes our lives even slightly more comfortable—there’s simply no stopping it.

We can go anywhere

With that in mind, why fight what we can use? Television didn’t kill Broadway, and television didn’t ruin radio, so there’s no reason to believe AR glasses will make non-interactive reading obsolete.

If anything, erotica writers might use it to their advantage.  As one myself, it’s fascinating to dream of encoding a story with a set of specific words or certain phrases designed to work with AR glasses—not to supplant a reader’s imagination, but enhance it.

Writers might even write to incorporate future developments in haptic tech—which is sure to be available in a few short years. AR readers could be tititlated by the aroma, texture, and appearance conjured by such phrases as “the Metamo-Roses were daintily embracing them.”so the reader would be tested, titillated with their aroma, texture, and appearance.

Or, “Yes, the Eye-Irises were subtly stroking their hair” wouldn’t be precise, wouldn’t necessarily take away from the reader’s imagination, but give them something for their fantasies to play with: an electric, tingling sensation, as opposed to something obvious, like its petals feeling like satin or silk. 

Imagination is sexy

Yes, I’m concerned about how AI-AR Glasses might negatively impact my love of reading and my passion for writing.  However, if doing both has taught me anything, it’s that when we put our minds and especially our imaginations to it, nothing’s impossible—especially by transforming the mundane into wonderful, limitless dreams.

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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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