Tech invades sexuality, goes ‘boink’

One out of 10 Americans uses a smartphone during sex. Two out of 10 young adults use their smartphones during sex. "This statistic has been thrown around the web like it's big news," writes an online-only adult entertainer calling herself Apt No 7, who says that the sexualization of our mobile devices has become so much a part of today's life that it is not news any longer.

"Our iPhones and Androids shoot aggressively climbing digital vines that grow into our identities and even into our biological processes," she says.

This digital imprinting is so personal that we lose sight of what it is doing to us as a species, where digital devices are becoming more and more part of our mental processes, like memory, communication and sexuality.

"We couldn't internalize these devices more unless we ate them or biohacked them into our bodies. What is even more startling is these devices are actually paying attention, and not just passively either. To say that our devices are literally an extension of ourselves much like an unbridled sexual prosthetic isn't far fetched, or science fiction. It's a fact," she writes.
Our smartphones have become an extension of our senses, too. They enhance them and increase their reach. "More times than not we are actually physically touching our device in some way," she writes.
At The Guardian, Jonathan Freedland elaborates on this theme. He uses the example of the letters the late Margaret Thatcher wrote to her sister Muriel, which provided the insights for Charles Moore's Thatcher biography. "There will be no such letters written by the prime ministers of tomorrow. Though we now reveal so much more... we leave behind so much less. Texts, tweets and Facebook updates exist in abundance, but they rarely provide the depth of a letter. And few would bet on them surviving 70-odd years," he writes.
Freedland notes that the initial reaction to internet porn was that it was just another form of the skin magazine. But that turned out to be wrong. "Images that are now commonplace were once visible only to those who were determined to seek them out, knew where to go and were not ashamed to reveal their appetite for them. Now they can be reached at a click, without fear of disclosure or embarrassment. And that may well be altering, if not distorting, the sexuality of the next generation."

For more: TheGuardian.com, BusinessInsider.com

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