Virtual reality pornography and tech-related violence against women: To boldly go have sex where no one has done it before!

Imagine a woman standing naked while a few dozen cameras take pictures of every inch of her body, including pictures of her sexual organs, her facial expressions and her sexual identity. As though magically, these thousands of images are used to create an anatomically accurate virtual reality avatar ready to offer visual and sensorial pleasure to users. The porn star avatar lives in computer-simulated reality or virtual reality, where a user can interact, touch and even soon engage in sexual relations with it. The lifelike dynamic avatar is developed using advanced graphic image engines and offers the potential for interactive responses with the user, thanks to advances in simulated reality devices like the Oculus Rift and responsive sexual devices.

These online pornographic interactions are the brain child of Holodexxx, a Toronto-based company that brings together existing virtual reality technologies already used by video gamers and the porn industry. The porn star avatar will perform in an adult video game, where players can “live out their sexual fantasies.”

The impact of virtual reality porn is relatively unknown but if we base ourselves on the porn industry and author Sarah Ratchford, in her article “Behind the Scenes of Tori Black’s Virtual Reality Porn Debut”, it is a game changer. To boldly go have sex where no one has done it before. These changes to the way we interact with pornography could have both positive and negative impacts on the rights of women, girls and members of the LGBTQIA community to find safer internet spaces to express their sexuality and live their lives without violence.

Read the full article in GenderIT.org .

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