Sex simulation games that make virtual sex feel as good as it does in the real world—or maybe even better

Before we journey into the hot and steamy world of the best games and most realistic sex simulators, we should first visit the rather unnerving uncanny valley.

Conceived by professor Masahiro Mori back in 1970, it wasn’t until 1978 that the term first appeared in print, in Jasia Reichardt’s book Robots: Fact, Fiction, and Prediction.

The uncanny valley is a theory that the closer computer-generated imagery (CGI) or robots resemble real human beings—the more realistic or lifelike they attempt—the more likely they will provoke feelings of unease or disgust.

Screenshot from multiplayer sex world 3DXChat [NSFW]

Sex Simulation Games & Adult PC Games

In the last few years, however, a better understanding of the phenomenon, as well as more advanced technologies, have allowed developers to create the most realistic sex games possible without provoking this disquieting response.

You can find perfect examples here in our list of the best sex games and most realistic sex game simulators. These titles work hard to get close to an illusion of erotic reality without steering players into the eerie uncanny valley.

Today’s best sex simulation games also synch with sex toys. Thanks to Bluetooth technology, you can both watch and feel the erotic action unfold with interactive sex toys from companies like Lovense and Vstroker.

While many of them are adult PC games, we’ve also included our selection of realistic sex games and sex simulators that support Mac, iOS, and Linux.

Best Sex Simulators

Adult World 3D

Image from Adult World 3D [NSFW]

Here’s a game that says it right on their site: “The Most Realistic 3D Sex!” Surprisingly, Adult World 3D [NSFW] lives up to this claim with high-definition graphics, a wide range of erotic activities, and multiple characters.

The sex simulator that scores points for being as lifelike as possible for a CGI title. It’s PC only, so if you’re an Apple user you may be tempted to switch.

According to the game site: “Some of the finest game designers and computer graphics artists in the world have put their skills to the fore in delivering a game of the most outstanding quality. Each and every fair vixen in the game is rendered with stunning clarity and detail, and it is almost as if you could reach out and touch them.”

Its creators are also behind other visually stunning adult PC games like Dream Sex World [NSFW]—pictured in the article top image—as well as fetish games like VirtualLust3D [NSFW].

3DXChat

We’ve talked many times about 3DXChat [NSFW]—including in our lists for Best Sex Games for Women, Best VR Sex Games, and Foot Fetish Games That Will Knock Your Socks Off (to name just three)—but always for really good reasons: it’s just that good. As you can tell, it’s definitely one of our favorite adult PC games.

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It’s also a longtime favorite on our best sex games and most realistic sex simulators list. Why? Because its graphics are some of the best, if not the very best, for a massively multiplayer online sex game. The adult PC game also deftly avoids the icy wastes of the uncanny valley by skillfully balancing a borderline-cartoonish style with realistic avatar modeling and physics.

There’s also the fact that 3DXChat [NSFW] is an immense playground open to almost infinite possibilities. Players can appear as realistic, or fantastic, as they choose. Not only can they customize how their avatars look, but they can also build public or private locations and special hookup spots.

Mirror Life

Screenshot from interactive sex simulator, Mirror Life

What better way for Lovense—one of the world’s most innovative and highly respected smart sex tech companies—to explore the erotic possibilities of merging their Bluetooth-enabled products with video game technology than to make their own, fully immersive and wonderfully versatile sex simulator?

Which is precisely what Lovense has done with Mirror Life: a free-to-play test bed built from the ground up to work with their Max 2 app-controlled male masterbator.  Though Mirror Life remains a work-in-progress, if you have a Max 2 then you must, as in right-this-very-minute, try it for yourself and experience the future of interactive erotic gaming.

Sex Emulator 

Fire up this animated 3D simulator and be prepared to lose yourself in its nearly limitless erotic possibilities.  Fun through this sex simulator most assuredly is, the Sex Emulator has more enjoyable tricks up its (virtual) sleeve) to the tune of a whopping four hundred other hot interactive games, adult videos, and more to also check out.

Not only that, but if English isn’t your native tongue you’re in luck as Sex Emulator’s available in five other languages, including French, Spanish, and German; making it not only a rollicking good time but an international delight as well.

BDSM Stimulator

Prepare to get your kink on when you visit BDSM Stimulator [NSFW]

Another pleasantly surprising—and quite frankly much needed—sex simulator is BDSM Stimulator [NSFW]. Why surprising? Well, like Sex Simulator, it’s a free-to-play browser title, though it does require players to register to verify their identity. 

But after that, you can whip, cane, or bound your choice of its many characters, and—where things get really interesting—engage with other, real people in multiplayer mode. 

Why is this particular sex simulation game needed? The answer is while a majority of games on our list can be pretty hardcore at times, BDSM Stimulator takes kinky sex to a whole new level. It even proclaims itself as “The World’s Most Extreme Sex Game,” which, compared to our rather extensive BDSM-related experiences, it most definitely is.

Adult Online Play

The loading screen for Adult Online Play [NSFW]

Adult Online Play [NSFW] has one hundred different sex simulation games, ranging from simple and exciting all the way to outrageously wild—made all the better because each is as realistic as it is erotically engaging.

The fun gets funner because a good selection of its titles are not just free to play but are playable on a good number of portable devices, like tables and smartphones.

Plus, if you like what you can see, you can become a member, unlocking Adult Online Play’s entire catalog of high-quality sex simulation games.

Captain Hardcore

Welcome to Captain Hardcore [NSFW]

Blast off to unknown, erotic worlds with Captain Hardcore [NSFW], a very tongue-in-cheek game where players may encounter an assortment of alien tongues, not to mention perky cheeks. 

As playful as it is erotically adventurous, Captain Hardcore may still be in development, but what it offers makes it more than makes it worth supporting, like its multi-VR system support, and it’s planned to support all of Lovense’s smart sex toys or the Fleshlight of your choosing.

Captain Hardcore also advertises a wide assortment of game possibilities. Do you like a sexually satisfying guided story, or prefer fooling around in a sky’s-the-limit sandbox mode? Then you are in luck, as those barely scratch the high-tech, chrome-plated surface of what Captain Hardcore has planned for its—and your—future.

Best VR Sex Simulators

Cyber Sexuals

A high-tech, cyberdelic treat like no other: Cyber Sexuals [NSFW]

Combining AAA video game mechanics with state-of-the-art erotic imagery, Cyber Sexuals [NSFW] is an episodic, immersive VR experience like no other. While our review noted it may need a few small improvements, Cyber Sexuals nevertheless remains an example of what happens when speculative fiction originality meets engaging gameplay—not to mention a hefty dose of premium-quality sexual virtual reality interactions.

Best of all, Cyber Sexuals is an ongoing project with at least one more brand-new, engaging installment in the works, so stay tuned and prepared for even more cyberpunk delights in the not-too-distant future.

Viro Playspace

Less a single game and more of a vast, showplace for all sorts of exciting virtual reality and smart sex toy-supportive experiences, Viro Playspace has about everything for everybody; ranging from hardcore BDSM to LGBTQ+ inclusive games—not to mention a zoo full of furry ones too.

Viro Playspace is all about supporting as much immersive tech as possible; like a host VR rigs such as the HTC Vive,  Value Index, Oculus Rift, and more than forty Bluetooth-equipped sex toys from the likes of Kiiroo Lovense, and WeVibe.

xStoryPlayer

Similar to 3D SexVilla 2, XStoryPlayer [NSFW] (from X Moon Productions) is an offline experience. And like 3DXChat, it supports virtual reality headgear for an immersive and lifelike experience. The sex simulator cements a place on our best sex games list by focusing on high-resolution graphics and eye-popping physics.

That’s because its immersive capabilities make it one of the most realistic sex games, so thank you very much for virtual reality!

As for gameplay, it doesn’t just jump into sex but rather asks users to create a relationship with one of the characters—but once that’s done you can do pretty much whatever you want.

The adult PC game—sorry Mac users—supports HTC Vive and Oculus Rift virtual reality headsets.

VR Love

Slip on your Oculus Quest/Rift, HTC Vive, or Value Index VR headset, charge your Lovense Max or Nora and hang on tight as VRLove proves the only thing better than an ultra-lifelike sex simulation game is a fully immersive and sex tech integrated one from the adult entertainment experts over at VirtualRealPorn.

If you’re an Amarna Miller fan, you can even have her star in your own virtual fantasies—or customize your own character to suit your wildest erotic fantasies.  

City Of Sin 3D

Accurately billed as providing “mind-blowing 3D virtual intimacy,” City Of Sin 3D provides you the choice of sixteen pre-made characters or the option to make your own from an impressively-huge library of skin tones, body-shapes, hair-colors, and more positions than the Kama Sutra to put your creations into!

Available for Windows, City Of Sin 3D steps it up a notch (or two, or three) with its  smooth-as-silk Fleshlight Launch, Flixband, and Stroker for Fleshlight integration.

Dezyred VR

It’s no wonder Dezyred [NSFW] has been on our sex simulation radar since it and its entertainingly arousing titles appeared on the virtual reality adult entertainment scene: it’s a big—and getting bigger—section of immersive, totally explicit games that are a sight to behold and a hoot-and-a-half to play.

Games like Double Trouble [NSFW] and A Day With Bella Rolland [NSFW] are just two of their premium quality sex simulators that are freely available—though, like BDSM Simulation, you’ll need to sign up first.

Part of the VR Bangers network, paying for Dezyred sometimes gives you access to their six other sites, depending on how much you’re willing to pay and if Dezyred is promoting any special offers.

Best Lesbian Sex Simulators

Girlvania

If you love girl-on-girl action, you need to download Girlvania right away! This sex simulator caters exclusively to lesbian fantasies and even includes a legs and feet expansion package for stockings and foot lovers.

Best Gay Sex Simulators

Hurt Me Plenty

On the surface this game is simple: you spank a sexy, beefy fellow. But there is more—so much more—to Hurt Me Plenty [NSFW], and this more is why it definitely deserves a place on our most realistic sex games list.

You see, this is a sex simulator that doesn’t only strive to be an accurate depiction of the reality of BDSM. It also guides the player in proper and responsible play.

It all begins with negotiation, agreeing to a safeword, and the like—and then comes the spanking action. But if you continue after the other character calls out the safeword, the action will abruptly stop and you’ll be presented with the following message: “Your partner is still recovering from the previous player’s abuse and violation of boundaries.” The game will then lock you out of any further action—sometimes for a matter of days.

While it may not be lifelike in its graphics, Hurt Me Plenty’s lesson of the real importance of responsible and consensual BDSM play is one that we desperately need to be seeing more of.

This sex simulator is available to download for Mac, Windows, and Linux.

Trans Pornstar Harem

The importance—and sexual desirability—of inclusiveness is on full display with Trans Pornstar Harem [NSFW]. An exciting, free-to-play erotic title, Trans Pornstar Harem combines the immersiveness of a good RPG game with erotic, no-holds-barred explicitness. It’s guaranteed to turn your nether regions on as much as its carefully constructed mechanics excites your brain.

Trans Pornstar Harem puts you in the loafers of a would-be adult entertainment tycoon who has the enviable task of (ahem) “auditioning” some of the hottest and more willing trans porn stars in the business.

Since it won’t cost you anything but the time it takes to open it on your PC, Mac, smartphone, or tablet, we definitely recommend it to those of you into trans sexuality, RPG games, and especially titles that merge each into an inclusive, entertaining, and sexually exciting sex simulator.

Best Sex Games for Mac

Being a Mac user isn’t always easy when it comes to sex games. Many are PC only. Sure, browser-based sex games are an option, but downloadable sex games have a lot more to offer by their very nature.

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That’s why we took the time to share a list of the Best Sex Games For Mac along with their top features. In brief, for Mac users searching for a multiplayer sex game, we recommend trying Yareel [NSFW]. For gay gamers, the best sex games for Mac are the browser-based RPG sex game  Gay Harem [NSFW] and the dating sim Dream Daddy.

Best Sex Games on Steam

One Night Stand

Here’s a question: what exactly qualifies a title for being the most realistic sex game? What is perceived as being realistic? Graphics can be part of it, trying to avoid that uncanny valley another, but what about the story?

That’s why we’re including the sex simulator One Night Stand [NSFW] by Lucy Blundell on our list of the best sex games and most realistic sex simulators. Instead of focusing on sex as pure fantasy, this title plays a mystery game that begins with you waking up next to a stranger after a titular one-night stand.

This sex simulator is an erotic visual novel that supports Windows, Mac iOS, and Linux.

Through a series of on-screen choices, you—as the male protagonist—work to figure out who the woman is and what happened the previous evening. This leads to one of 12 different endings: some good, some not-so-good.

While maybe not a steamy exercise, it’s still recommended for its elegant art style and unique approach to the realities of sex: the morning after.

Waifu Sex Simulator

One of the Internet’s favorite virtual reality hentai games is Waifu Sex Simulator. It was created by Lewd FRAGGY, who calls the VR sex game content “unofficial fan-made work.”

Players can have their pick from more than 1,000 hot models inspired by top anime characters, games, and TV shows. You can also make the scenes interactive by controlling the action with your bare hands or VR controllers. For these reasons, Waifu Sex Simulator is one of the most realistic and best sex simulators around. It also features more than 300 sex animations and high-quality graphics.

For more info on installing the realistic waifu sex simulator, there’s a very useful tutorial posted on Reddit.

The future of realistic sex games and sex simulators

While we are rapidly approaching a time when in the most realistic sex games graphics will become indistinguishable —it’s important to call out another form of the uncanny valley: that it’s time for games to try and approach the less-than-visual realities of sex.

Not that fantasy should be avoided. However, when too many people are engaging in physical pleasure without a clear idea of the emotional, social, and physical realities of what can come with it, developers of adult PC games need to take responsibility to become part of the solution and not the problem.

Hopefully, because of public demand as well as game designers understanding their responsibilities, we’ll be seeing realistic sex games that aren’t just pretty to look at but will provide a deeper, more nuanced, and even educational approach to the realities of sex.

What do you think of our list of the most realistic sex simulators and best sex games? Did we miss any great realistic sex game titles or adult PC games? Please feel free to share your top picks with us on Twitter or Bluesky.

Image sources: Image sources: 3DXChat [NSFW], Adult World 3D [NSFW], 3D SexVilla 2 [NSFW], XStoryPlayer [NSFW], Mirror Life [NSFW], Sex Simulator [NSFW], BDSM Simulator [NSFW], Adult Online Play [NSFW], Captain Hardcore [NSFW], Dezyred VR [NSFW], Hurt Me Plenty [NSFW], Trans Pornstar Harem [NSFW]

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An apparently dire present doesn’t mean tomorrow can’t be wonderful

With new age verification laws and attacks targeting the adult industry and LGBTQIA+ people, our rights to sexual autonomy, consensual love, and unbiased education are under threat. These measures often reflect a conservative agenda rather than efforts to truly protect people.

But if history has taught us anything, it’s that the future is ours to make. If that’s the case, we’re willing to fight for it. Because if we don’t, then far sooner than we might expect, we really will live in a world ruled by sexual ignorance, irrational fears, and where healthy desires could land you in jail—or worse.

Lines being drawn

This isn’t an exaggeration. The World Population Review states that sixty-two countries restrict access to adult materials, and thirty-two make the production or use of sex-related content fully illegal.

Meanwhile, Human Rights Watch reports, “67 countries have national laws criminalizing same-sex relations between consenting adults. In addition, at least nine countries have national laws criminalizing forms of gender expression that target transgender and gender nonconforming people.”

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If groups like the Heritage Foundation succeed, the United States could drastically increase censorship, criminalizing sexual expression, education, and those who enable it. Their vision threatens basic rights and freedoms.

Even learning about essentials like birth control is under attack. Planned Parenthood states only ten states require inclusive, affirming discussion of LGBTQIA+ identities. Six southern states either ban discussion of LGBTQIA+ topics in sex education, or require framing such identities negatively.

Like your sex lives depend on it

In the face of these attacks, the fight is about securing our fundamental right to sexual freedom—what Emma Goldman called ‘the right to love and be loved.’

To begin with, it’s important to stay informed: both about these and similar threats to our sexual rights, but also the vitally important sexual facts conservative laws are aiming to suppress.

Planned Parenthood is one such invaluable resource, as are the American Sexual Health Association(ASHA) and the World Health Organization (WHO). 

Unfortunately, due to the current US administration’s intervention, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is no longer reliable and should be avoided.

The mentioned Human Rights Watch, along with the American Civil Liberties Union and the National Coalition for Sexual Freedom (NCSF) are excellent resources for tracking anti-sex laws.

Stand for love

Never forget that the most potent way to battle against sexual ignorance is to open our minds to exciting new possibilities. Though an admittedly odd choice in this context, H.P. Lovecraft said it best, “The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown.”

By this, I mean that if anything, sexual conservatism seems fueled by unreasonable fears: masturbation is bad, pornography is self-destructive; LGBTQ+ people are (at best) confused or (at worst) were “groomed” by an abuser; sex education leads to promiscuity, the list sadly goes on and on.

The scientifically proven reality is that none of the above is remotely true, that masturbation and sexual fantasies are physically and emotionally healthy, sexual pleasure helps ensure people experience safer and happier lives, LGBTQIA+ people deserve nothing but respect, acceptance, and support. 

Above all, we can turn optimism into action. Instead of waiting for change, actively challenge bigotry and misinformation. Join local or online advocacy groups, vote for policies that protect sexual freedom, and have open conversations that promote consent, understanding, and inclusivity. Every small step you take contributes to building a future filled with hope, respect, and consensual enjoyment.

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Limitless creativity versus the same old, unimaginative slop

“The disturbing irony of our culture’s current mindset is that as society fights against women’s victimization, it also collectively promotes and celebrates the porn industry—an industry that inherently, directly, and unapologetically victimizes women for entertainment and profit,” claims Fight The New Drug, a non-religious, nonprofit anti-pornography advocacy group.

Other groups and organizations agree, such as Citizens for Decency, Enough Is Enough, and the UK-based Naked Truth, with CEO and founder Ian Henderson, declaring “Porn is hijacking people’s lives, robbing futures, families and freedom. We educate on the damages of porn and journey people towards a life without it—a life of authentic connection and healthy relationships.”

Though what if adult content could be produced that not only doesn’t involve human performers but also provides an emotionally healthy sexual outlet?

The answer is it’s already here, compliments of another currently controversial subject, image-generating artificial intelligence—with an explicit twist.

Tell me what you want

While major players in the AI industry remain committed to keeping their Large Language Models sexually chaste, the proliferation of similar technologies has led to the rise of more erotically liberated options. Candy AI, Deep Swap AI, Lovescape, the list goes on and on—and is getting longer nearly every day.

Naturally, anti-porn crusaders aren’t happy, though aside from Collective Shout’s demonetization campaign against erotic game developers, it seems most of their focus has been on supporting anti-deepfake laws.

In all fairness, the creation and distribution of anyone’s likeness without their permission is inexcusable —let alone whether exploitive or intentionally harmful—just as AI also shouldn’t ever be trained using creator-unapproved media.

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Not dismissing these and other legitimate concerns, the issue appears to be whether trying to put the sexually explicit digital genie back in its bottle is either futile or possibly even emotionally and/or sexually harmful.

As 404Media put it, “Much like anti-abortion laws don’t end abortion, and the so-called war on drugs didn’t ‘win’ over drugs, anti-porn laws don’t end the adult industry. They only serve to shift power from people—sex workers, adult content creators, consumers of Porn and anyone who wants to access sexual speech online without overly-burdensome barriers—to politicians like Senator Mike Lee, who is currently pushing to criminalize Porn at the federal level.”

Your wish is my command

Without ignoring the necessity for some legal regulation, it’s important to frame the discussionaround the crucial importance of consent and less about anti-porn hysteria. In that context, non-human-involved adult content has a lot going for it.

To begin with, people have enjoyed making and viewing sexy pictures for as long as we could carve our fantasies onto cave walls—or drag a stick along the ground Sure, our sticks are now ultra-sophisticated algorithms, and our canvas is the world-spanning internet, but the principle’s the same.

So why, thousands of years later, should the same sort of sexualized media be the downfall of humanity?  If anything, erotic fantasies are often emotionally beneficial 

Enter Psychology Today, “Just as fantasizing about being a world-class jewel thief doesn’t mean you’re going to become a thief, having sexual fantasies doesn’t mean you’re going to act on them. Fantasizing is our brain’s way of projecting a future scenario or trying ideas on for size. It’s also a way of reliving a wonderful moment or deriving comfort or pleasure from an alternative reality.”

Just give it a little rub

The developing, non-exploitative, as it is not based on a real person’s likeness without permission, along with a few other important safeguards like preventing the generation of underage characters or depictions of non-consensual violence or emotional/sexual abuse, might curb, if not potentially eliminate, the female exploitation.

On top of all that, it would put creative control in the hands of the people who need it the most While once we had to accept what the industry put out, with AI technology we’ll be able to self express our erotic imaginations like never before—and, with the exception of those crucial guidelines —without limit.

It’s time to finally accept the warm, human reality that arousal can be as essential and life-affirming as a good belly laugh 

But just as we shouldn’t find humans at someone else’s expense, so too AI-generated adult materials mustn’t ever be based on someone without their permission—instead of focusing on healthy, life-affirming, pleasure-affirming fantasies.

Image Sources: Depositphotos

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Anti-adult entertainment legislation causing industry to rethink its content—and itself

With age verification laws sweeping the world and Aylo Group Ltd., owner of the huge explicit entertainment platform, Pornhub, getting slapped with a record 5 million dollar fine for failing to remove existing, as well as preventing the re-upload of child sexual abuse material (CSAM) and non-consensual material (NCM) from its sites, it’s no wonder other adult content providers are reevaluating not only what they are creating and/or distributing but also how to make their content more erotically appealing to their customers.

The women-run-and-operated site, Ersties [NSFW], is a perfect example, recently having hired its very first “Chief Pleasure Officer,” who, aided by a carefully collected Pleasure Test Crew—aka “The W*nk Squad”—will be personally reviewing the platform’s content to ensure everything’s as immersive and authentically engaging as possible.

Reported by UniladTech, the CPO’s duties, according to the Ersties spokesperson, Cat, will involve “checking that the shot doesn’t cut and change right at the moment the user wants it to stay, to evaluating camera angles, and the natural rhythm of scenes to ensure the content remains sexy, authentic, visually appealing, and emotionally resonant.”

Lights, Camera—Consensuality?

Viewer satisfaction might be one crucial aspect, but the Chief Pleasure Officer also reflects the company’s mission. That is, as Cat further explained, “making ethical, authentic, women-led adult entertainment, with a pleasure experience that’s like no other. We want our users to feel good watching our content from the moment they click on the website to the moment they ‘finish’.”

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Whether it’s trying to criminalize the production, distribution, or consumption of anything remotely sex-related—as with the proposed Michigan law aiming to erase LGBTQIA+ people from existence—or utilizing age verification laws to effectively drive companies such as Pornhub out of business, it seems like the adult entertainment industry has never been so relentlessly, ruthlessly targeted.

But also, like Pornhub, due to its inability or unwillingness to prevent the proliferation of CSAM and NCM videos, it’s easy to see why. It sometimes even feels as if the industry wants to be in the crosshairs, especially considering Ersties’ apparently simple approach could be what the industry needs to pull itself out of its self-imposed gutter.

Filth Doesn’t Have to Be Filthy

Admittedly, religious zealots like the authors of the already mentioned Michigan bill will likely never be swayed. However, promoters of the idea that adult materials foster unhealthy sexual attitudes, like the objectification of women, or are non-consensually created, might have their views swayed by Ersties-inspired companies.

“Sex shouldn’t be intimidating, it’s meant to be fun,” the company’s site eloquently states, “so even the most sensual, sexy moments should feel relatable and beautiful to watch. We want to show the kind of sex you could be having, just with better lighting! Real people, real bodies, real moans, real consent, real orgasms.”

Since they are such a well-deserved target, compare that with Pornhub and the myriad other sites the Aylo Group owns: nothing about taking responsibility, zero about authenticity, and especially nada about consent.

Listen and Act

It’s naive to think the adult entertainment industry’s driven by anything except making as much as and as fast as possible—no matter who gets hurt in the process.

That was then, but now that reckless expediency is coming back to haunt them. If creators, distributors, and platforms want to keep raking it in—to the tune of 275 billion USD by 2032, as per Maximize Market Research—they should start by listening to what those anti-porn advocates are saying, then, armed with this essential knowledge, act intelligently.

Borrowing a page or two from Ersties’ sexually-progressive playbook might be one approach: not merely claiming you’re going to be more responsible but actually making systemic changes to ensure it—as WHPDD (“What Hasn’t Pornhub Done”).

Likewise, instead of relying on cheap algorithms to regulate what does and doesn’t end up on your platform, hire your own Squad. More expensive? Sure, but so is a 5-million-dollar FTC fine.

The truth is that a majority of adult entertainment companies are too big to fail or be outlawed. But that doesn’t mean theycan’t be knocked back, hobbled, or kept from evolving into a sexually and emotionally healthy, ethically responsible, beautifully imaginative industry, which might happen if those involved keep failing to pay attention—and don’t realize that sex, joy, and pleasure aren’t just profitable but important.

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Penalty levied for failing to remove CSAM and NCM videos

Aylo Group Ltd, owner of the popular explicit video sharing site, PornHub, agreed to pay the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and the state of Utah a five million dollar fine. According to an FTC press release, Aylo deceived “users by doing little to block tens of thousands of videos and photos featuring child sexual abuse material (CSAM) and nonconsensual material (NCM) despite claiming that this content was “strictly prohibited.’’’

The substantial fine comes on the heels of a 2020 New York Times article exposing the company’s failure to control PornHub’s content. As another New York Times piece noted, this caused Mastercard and Visa to cut ties with Aylo, which, even after Aylo started requiring content uploaders and performers to provide proof of consent and of legal age.

J’Accuse!

The FTC press release also accused Aylo of misleading those very same content providers, writing that it “told its models that they could ‘trust that their personal data remains secure’ yet failed to use standard security measures to protect the data.” 

But Aylo’s problems didn’t stop there. The FTC said the company was also unable or unwilling to block anyone attempting to upload CSAM videos, instead only keeping them from circumventing the ban by setting up other accounts using the username or email address.

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Not only that, but Aylo was caught in a lie when it claimed it had begun digitally marking potentially under-age content to alert them should the producer try to resubmit it to any of PornHub’s other sites—but the FTC pointed out this wasn’t effectively implemented for four years, from 2017 to 2021, resulting in what could be as many as a hundred CSAM videos being re-uploaded.

We promise, really—

In response, Aylo told TechCrunch it would be redoubling its self-policing efforts, pledging to “reaffirms [its] efforts to prevent the publication of CSAM and NCM.”

However, though accepting the judgment and fine, Aylo seems resistant to its intent, adding “The resolution reached involved enhancements to existing measures but did not introduce any new substantive requirements that were not either already in place or in progress”—apparently unaware of how many times it failed to fulfill any of its previous promises.

By admitting guilt, along with paying the five million dollar fine, Aylo agreed to verify the content and legal identity of anyone appearing in content submitted to PornHub or its other adult platforms; establish new, more stringent ways to halt the spread of underage and/or nonconsensual materials to any of its sites; permanently delete any CSAM and NCM still in its systems.

Porn needs help

Though their efforts might end up driving adult content viewers to unblocking sites, the age-verification laws sweeping the United States and other countries have certainly hit adult platforms where it hurts them the worst: their bank accounts.

Case in point: Anthony Penhale, Aylo’s chief legal officer, even went so far as to send a letter to Microsoft, Google, and Apple, begging for their help.  As Wired reported, he asked the tech giants to integrate age-verification tech into not just every app they sell but into their operating systems as well:

Based on our real-world experience with existing age assurance laws, we strongly support the initiative to protect minors online. However, we have found site-based age assurance approaches to be fundamentally flawed and counterproductive.

While Apple and Microsoft didn’t respond to Wired’s request to comment on the letter, Google’s Karl Ryan gave a less than supportive answer, saying, 

Google is committed to protecting kids online, including by developing and deploying new age assurance tools like our Credential Manager API that websites can use. We don’t allow adult entertainment apps on Google Play and would emphasize that certain high-risk services like Aylo will always need to invest in specific tools to meet their own legal and responsibility obligations.  

Storm on the horizon

Putting all this together, it appears Aylo’s dug itself into an extremely deep hole with every failure to block content exploiting non-consensual and underage performers, who suffer great emotional, physical, and financial harm. And Aylo’s out and out lies may ensure it may never see the light of day again.

Worse, its Google, Microsoft, and Apple letters might even be read as an admission of guilt, that despite its public commitment to do better, it seems to admit it can’t fulfil the promises it made to the FTC.

If so, as with any adult platform unable to grasp the why people are up in arms about CSAM and NCM content, then Aylo and all of its other sites deserve an unmarked grave.

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The sextech industry can’t wait to explore the technology’s erotic potential

The next, upgraded iteration of Apple’s mixed reality headset may arrive early next year or as late as the next year, but that hasn’t stopped explicit content creators from preparing for its arrival and the delights in store for their VR customer base.

Details are scant, though sites like 9to5 seem fairly certain the new Apple Vision Pro 2 will include the faster, more efficient M4 or M5 chip; an improved neck and head stress-reducing head strap; and, according to this Bloomberg article, a method to “increase the number of cores inside of the neural engine—a component for processing artificial intelligence tasks.”  

The article further explains, “The neural engine in the current Vision Pro includes 16 cores, a measure of processing power. These capabilities are critical for a device that relies on AI for the live processing of imagery and applications in complex virtual environments.”

Lighter, more powerful, more comfortable—and cheaper?

Often heralded as a significant step towards realizing the immersive potential of augmented and mixed reality, the initial Apple Vision Pro nevertheless received mixed reviews, mostly due to its prohibitively steep price point.  

However, starting at $3,499, excluding the cost of special prescription lenses, and nearly $3,899 for the one-terabyte model, wasn’t the only thing holding it back.  

As another Bloomberg piece noted its awkward heaviness, few supported apps, display glare, and while in-store demonstrations generated interest, they ended up promising, “Consumers on an experience that doesn’t quite exist yet.”

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My own brief time spent with the headset backs this up, as I felt an odd combination of excitement at what it might offer in the future and frustration that I couldn’t take one home.

Unfortunately, while very little is known about what the Apple Vision Pro 2 might be like, there’s little—or more accurately, less than nothing—reported regarding whether it’ll ever be anything but an overpriced novelty.

Looking beyond the arousing horizon

Meager details aside, what the Apple Vision Pro 2 could be has at least one popular virtual reality adult platform all-a-twitter.  

SexLikeReal, which hosts thirteen thousand different titles from nearly two hundred different studios, doesn’t shy away from fresh-out-of-the-box sex tech innovations. The website was quick to support interactive devices, such as those made by Kiiroo and Lovense.

This commitment to innovation helps explain why, in a company blog post, SexLikeReal predicts the Apple Vision Pro 2’s greater comfort and particularly its higher resolution displays will boost customer passthrough, claiming “scenes will feel even closer to performers being in your space. Switch between full VR and passthrough in seconds, without breaking immersion.”

Just like being there—but not yet?

Immersion, after all, is what augmented reality is all about: while VR drops the viewer into a completely digital space, AR — and its close cousin, Mixed Reality — projects a person, place, or thing over the wearer’s existing environment.

Or, to put it another way, by donning something like the current or upcoming Apple Vision Pro 2, you could see and eventually even interact via Bluetooth-enabled smart devices with the adult entertainer sitting on the edge of your bed.

However, the Apple Vision Pro showed that, although the sextech and adult entertainment industries may be eager for the technology, we may have several years before AR’s immersive power is fully realized.

Beginning with what Bloomberg and others anticipate: reduced weight and greater user comfort, a larger selection of apps and further support for existing sites and programs, and—more than anything—lowering hardware costs.

A challenging proposition, to be sure. Notably, regarding price, boosting next-gen AR gear isn’t the same as doing so with VR, where the latter requires maxed-out processing power to not only power and head-track a pair of high-definition displays but also seamlessly match content with whatever the wearer is already looking at.

But as with tech advances from artificial intelligence tech to 3D printing, easy, affordable, fully immersive, and completely interactive AR systems are inevitable—and however long they take to arrive, you know the adult entertainment industry will be ready, willing, and absolutely able to take full advantage of AR’s erotically-awesome possibilities.

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