{"id":13527,"date":"2015-02-21T03:00:33","date_gmt":"2015-02-21T11:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/?p=13527"},"modified":"2017-06-04T12:02:06","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T19:02:06","slug":"the-future-of-virtual-sex","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/02\/the-future-of-virtual-sex","title":{"rendered":"The Future of Virtual Sex"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"byline\">By David Linden \u2014 Wall Street Journal<\/div>\n<div class=\"byline\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"byline\">Is another human being necessary for satisfying sex? Secretly\u2014and perhaps especially on Valentine\u2019s Day\u2014many people love the idea of somehow being free from the constraint of needing another person to experience the heights of sexual excitement. But they shouldn\u2019t get their hopes up: The state of the art in erotic gadgetry is still very crude, and there are reasons, both technical and deeply human, to doubt that we will soon transcend the familiar bodily requirements of our most urgent desires.Sex robots now on the market can sense the user\u2019s movements or voice and respond accordingly. One is RoxxxyGold the TrueCompanion, a 5\u20197\u201d tall silicone-and-metal model with measurements of 38\u221230\u221237, on sale for $6,995. RoxxxyGold has some sensors in her skin and can respond to your voice and carry on a minimal conversation\u2014but she can\u2019t move her limbs or her face. For those on a budget and not inclined toward romance, one can get a horrific $995 version of Roxxxy with no arms, no legs and no ability to listen to or talk about anything other than sex acts. There\u2019s also a male version called Rocky on offer for $1,495, available with or without razor stubble.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/the-future-of-virtual-sex-1423845474\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By David Linden \u2014 Wall Street Journal Is another human being necessary for satisfying sex? Secretly\u2014and perhaps especially on Valentine\u2019s Day\u2014many people love the idea of somehow being free from the constraint of needing another person to experience the heights of sexual excitement. But they shouldn\u2019t get their hopes up: The state of the art [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1879],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-virtual-reality"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13527","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/76"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13527"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13527\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64826,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13527\/revisions\/64826"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}