VR And Female Pleasure
I have always assumed that horny young technically-adept men were the primary market for VR porn. Porn enjoyment generally is said to skew heavily male, and adding nifty cutting-edge electronic gadgets to the porn-viewing enterprise perhaps reinforces that. All of this is changing rapidly and a lot of the actual research on porn habits is both out-of-date and dubious in its methodology. I might be wrong. Still, it’s been the baseline of my thinking about VR porn for the last few years.
I’ve told you before, though, that I tend to view culture through the lens of porn and erotic art. Erotic art, in particular, is where we start to see meta trends, as expressed through art that’s about porn (and people enjoying porn) rather than just being porn. So what does it mean when we start to see erotic imagery of women pleasuring themselves while enjoying VR porn?
It might mean nothing. Even with detailed lists of the best VR porn sites at our fingertips, it would be a huge job trying to figure out who is watching, who is subscribing, who is paying, and who is getting off. Also, art that’s at all “meta” is perforce ambiguous. Who is to say that all these masturbating women are watching porn in their VR headsets? They might be watching something else entirely, like Smurf cartoons or classic music videos from the 1980s.
But no. We are the viewers and critics here, and thus one of our chief pleasures is the power of interpretation. We are empowered to say “I understand this to be an image about a woman viewing porn” and while anyone might disagree, no one has the power to declare us wrong.
So, what does the emergence of all this women-enjoying-VR-porn imagery tell us? Maybe art imitates life; maybe this is an emerging phenomenon, a thing that’s happening now. And since it’s sexy to imagine, it becomes the subject of erotic art. But we don’t assume that tentacle sex artwork heralds the arrival of tentacle beasts in our space-time continuum, so we must remain mindful that we might just be seeing the erotic projections of male artists, sharing their fantasies, in this as in all else. The male gaze, looking into the mirror of VR porn desire, and seeing… itself.
Did I say I tend to view culture through a porn lens? I did say that, but it doesn’t mean I necessarily understand what I see.
Image credits, top to bottom: The cartoon blonde giving a simulated blowjob is by 3Palec. The woman wearing a “slut” tee and giving herself wand-vibrator orgasms is by Jiffic. The blonde with busy fingers inside her panties is by an unknown source. The woman with her hand tucked discretely between her spread legs while her heels rest on her computer desk is by Area5de. The lady in her pleasure chair sweating through multiple VR-assisted orgasms is by Rikena. And cute sysadmin who is creating her own personal waterfall in the server room is by Piyorin.
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Anything that normalizes female masturbation and positive body identity is, in my book, good(tm).
VR and teledildonics is getting there fast, and its going to be fantastic.
We already have the awesome technology, it’s just a matter of financial backing and the willingness to pool creativity and specialities.
There are toys out there already that a mere decade ago seemed like way distant fantasies.
I run across some obscure sites sometimes and am pop-eyed and slack-jawed at the sophistication of some current toys.
The financial return that somebody is receiving must be truly staggering.
Women by the way, are just waiting, and rather impatiently I might add, for many of these tireless toys to hit the market.
Many were surprised by the HUGE female market that suddenly appeared as soon as women could easily access video porn to watch in the privacy of their own home.
The tide may also be slowly but surely turning of women who no longer deny their own sexuality, and admit that they are as horny as the men whom they so vocally decry. Truth be told that certain statistics show that they are quite often as “dirty-minded” as males, they’re just more highly motivated to deny it.
When technological production catches up to women’s desires, the vast internet-based enterprises that deliver goods anonymously to their doorsteps will have a difficult time keeping supply up to match the demand.
It mystifies me somewhat why they continue to lie about their very real desire for virtually unlimited non-human sexual satisfaction.
Whiplash, I agree with everything you say here. The extent to which the perfect privacy of ebooks and e-readers revolutionized the market for dirty books for women (these days known as “erotic romance” but it’s pure porn with pretty covers) is all the proof I need that you’re right. I don’t think most men realize just how many expensive sex toys women are already buying, either. I think I first started writing about this 10 years ago, but I’m sure there’s much more going on in this space than I know about.
In case any of your readers (male or female), are skeptical about the elevated level of horniness in the female if our species, I would invite them to perform a quick web search on the meme of ladies selfies (both in their mirrors and with selfie sticks), where they forgot to hide their huge rubber penis replica dildoes and these toys are “lurking” embarrassingly in the foreground or background. I personally get a huge kick out these innocent-looking, girl-next-door youngsters who are completely oblivious about what they have just revealed about themselves to the world. The fact that they didn’t bother to store these objects away after use, implies that they plan on using them soon and with some regularity, yet many of them would have you believe that their popular reliance on these objects are purely the creations of male fantasy, and further that males are despicable sex addicts bereft of noble and wholesome thoughts like those of our prim and proper counterparts, the fairer sex.
These countless photos are not of the mere ivory-colored reasonably-sized vibrators that some women claim are for sore back muscles. These are monstrous veiny penis replicas that are seeing a LOT of action…