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Love in 2012: What The Future Holds
Looking for love? Want better sex? Get ready for Relationships 2.0.
by Regina Lynn
Inspired by our online shopping sprees (for once), our partners will become more willing to experiment. Says Waxman, “So many hetero men actually like prostate stimulation, but are scared to go into a store and talk to a salesperson about it.” Just imagine the future of stocking stuffers.
The new impulse buy? Americans spent $1.7 billion on adult novelties in 2006, up 15 percent from 2005.
Prediction 4:
Long-distance lovers plug in. We can already buzz each other from afar: HighJoy.com and Sinulate.com offer systems that enable you to plug sex toys into your computer and put yourself at your partner’s mercy. Both companies anticipated that their products would be in demand among the porn and professional webcam community; what they didn’t expect was the long-distance couples and frequent travelers who have embraced them.
A large number of his customers are military couples, says Sinulate president Steve Rhodes. But another factor driving the next generation is the desire to get away from the computer. The portable Boditalk vibrator switches on when you receive a cell phone call—from anyone, not just your lover. The Bluetooth enabled vibrator (known as “The Toy”) waits for you to receive a text on a compatible phone—at which point it wiggles ecstatically, making a different movement for each character in the message.
And today, the prototype “Hug Shirt” from CuteCircuit.com lets you embrace your darling through strategically placed “actuators” triggered by your phone’s Bluetooth signals when a text comes in.
This melding of the physical with the virtual extends beyond sex, becoming a means to express romance and affection, whether you’re near or far.
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1 Spiritual Sex: 10 Erotic Commandments // May 2, 2008 at 5:47 pm
[…] Love in 2012: What The Future Holds […]
2 Nicole // Apr 30, 2008 at 11:40 am
Seriously, who are you people that don’t know what a Yenta is? You never saw Fiddler on the Roof?
3 Final Messiah // Feb 18, 2008 at 1:31 am
BTW, if I were ever offered a ‘yenta service’ I wouldn’t have it for free! The joker who wrote this piece needs to go to grammar school.
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/yenta
Maybe,he was referring to this
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/shadchen
4 Jesus // Feb 16, 2008 at 4:58 am
Why does the writer presume that anyone outside of fucking Tel Aviv knows what a fucking Yenta is? Is it like a Yeti? Makes you want to root for that little Iranian dude..
5 A // Feb 15, 2008 at 5:31 pm
What’s a f…ing yenta? Can’t you people speak English??? This is USA, not Israel!
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