
http://kotaku.com/i-tried-vr-porn-a...m_source=Kotaku_Twitter&utm_medium=Socialflow
It was breakfast-themed. Sunlight lazily streamed into a white-walled kitchen as a red-haired woman stripped on a table that Ior my "avatar"was seated at. Occasionally she took sips from a glass of orange juice because thematic consistency or something, I guess. As she slowly shrugged out of a thin white shirt, she frequently made eye contact with "me," whispered and giggled playfully, teased touch but witheld sensation.
She got close. Really close. If she were a real person, we'd have been nose-to-nose. It was weirdly uncomfortable. My brainonly partially aware that what it was experiencing wasn't realsurged its synapses with mixed signals, ones usually reserved for awkward encounters with actual humans. "Who is this person? You just met her. Why is she right in your face? Please step back please step back please step back she's not stepping back. Why can't you step back?" I could count the moments of eye contact in eternities, it felt so awkward.
I am sometimes scared of peopleespecially when I can't talk to them. VR porn triggered that reaction hardcore.
The illusion that she was a real human broke when she got even closer. My body was so confused by the lack of heatno warm breath on the nape of my neck, not even a single heartbeatthat I felt it as a phantom sensation. I realized that I didn't feel like I was with another person so much as I was being "stroked" by the intangible ghost hand of some eerie automaton, a one-size-fits-all skeleton wearing intimacy's skin, paying no heed as said skin sloughed away to reveal its true nature.
Then she started eating her own underwear, and I wasn't into it at all. Apologies to folks who are into that, but it's not my thing.
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Later that day, I talked with someone else who'd also tried VR porn (albeit not with Vander Caballero; that is, to my knowledge, an honor only I can lay claim to), and his experience was totally different from mine. He explained:
"At first it felt surreal and disconnected, but I timed myself to get off at the same time she did," said this person, who preferred to remain anonymous. "And suddenly, I came, and we had that moment of [exhausted breathing sounds]. She was breathing at the same time. And then she looked me in the eye and leaned in and said, 'I love you, baby.' I was like, 'Wow, that was amazing.' And then I realized I'd only had that experience with a few girlfriends in my life. That's when I realized this shit is crazy. To connect with a human you need so many things, and this achieved it almost immediately. This girl was there with me, and she recognized me, and she appreciated me."
humanity is gonna be different in like... a year.