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From: kddlab!lkbreth.foretune.co.jp!trebor@uunet.UU.NET (Robert J Woodhead)
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Subject: Re: Virtual Sex
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Date: 17 May 91 03:04:33 GMT
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buckland@ucs.ubc.ca (Tony Buckland) writes:

> A recent posting dismissed an earlier question about expectations
> for virtual-world sex rather cavalierly, with what I take to be
> the derisory term "teledildonics".

Just as a humorous anecdote, back in the '70s at the U of I,
Urbana (home of PLATO), a grad student apparently designed a
microprocessor controlled dildo.  As it was described to me,
said device had temperature, pressure, moisture and for all
I know accellerometers in it, the whole idea being to allow
it to provide an interactive experience.

However, the feature that most impressed me was the concept
of using "plug in (ahem) ROMPAKS" to allow the user to modify
the behavior of the dildo.  So a user could choose between
"Lazy Summer Afternoons" and "Ride 'Em Cowboy", for example.

Such a device, if it was ever built, would bring new meaning
to the term "User Interface."  The developer's toolkit would
be positively pornographic.  And I've always wondered who did
the Beta testing.... ;^>

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