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 All of this is changing rapidly and a lot of the actual research on porn habits is both out-of-date and dubious in its methodology.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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