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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
Prediction 5:
Marriage gains new dimensions. Never mind whether he still brings you flowers. In 2012, the average husband will be expected to flirt with you by text message, serenade you in live video, make wanton love to your virtual double over lunch, and still have enough energy to engage in thoughtful conversation at dinner.
To say nothing of how complicated deciding to commit is becoming: Michelle Pignatano of New Jersey met Joe Trykoski of Illinois in the 3-D online environment known as Second Life—and fell head over heels.
They moved in together and got married in the virtual world, then moved in together and got engaged in the physical world. In a nutshell, that’s post-modern love. It’s an increasingly common phenomenon as we erase the lines between “real” and “virtual”— and the lines get blurrier by the day.
Soon, “Cameras will capture our expressions and movements and express them in real-time on our avatars,” says Utherverse CEO Shuster. “[They’ll] move and act like we do in real life.”
You, too, may soon live a double life on Second Life. “We’ll see the emergence of a phenomenally successful virtual world that targets the mainstream audience,” says Brenda Brathwaite, professor at the Savannah College of Art and Design and author of Sex in Video Games (Charles River Media, 2006). And that’s not a bad thing.
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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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