Sex and technology are two terms that have an ever closer relationship. For thousands of years, human sexuality has not been affected by many technological advances; today, however, technology has also begun to occupy a central place in this area.
Of course, this is possible because the technology itself exists, but also because the way sexuality is understood and experienced has changed, so let’s go a little further.
- Technological advances have provided new spaces for humans.
- No doubt this has led to new forms of socialization in all areas.
- Including privacy.
Since sexuality is such an important facet in human life, everything that conditions it becomes important, in terms of technology, mobile applications, the Internet and social networks are probably the ones that have influenced the most.
Today, almost everyone has a “ghost phone”; however, we make no more calls than before, on the contrary, we tend to opt for more distant forms of communication, in this sense, evolution is occurring at such a speed that it is difficult to study and draw conclusions about our relationship. with technology.
There is no doubt that, on a personal and social level, its influence is important and, although it sometimes seems unpredictable, one must be aware of the relationship between technology and sex, especially when referencing inappropriate or pathological behaviors.
The Internet is infinite and the number of pages and references to sexual content is also infinite. For both leisure and information, the large network is a preferred destination, although not necessarily suitable in all cases.
On the other hand, in younger social strata (including adolescents and minors), sharing sexual content of your own generation is a highly implemented practice There are attributes that make it very attractive, the prominence stays with the visual?In a world of more and more visual people?and it doesn’t take long.
We can find sexual material in different formats, we don’t need to look much. On the other hand, statistics tell us that we are talking about a sex that has a wide audience and a wide range of ages.
Today, for example, it is known that shared content greatly conditions the sexual expectations of those who consume it, somehow our brain does not seem to treat what it perceives as fiction.
One of the practices that unites sex and technology and is among the most dangerous is sexting, which occurs mostly among young people and adolescents and involves sending photos and videos with explicit sexual content that are taken in selfies with the mobile phone.
While it is a practice that introduces seduction into the sex life of adults, it has become young people in an erotic game of risk; in addition to increasing desire, it also causes certain materials to end up in unwanted hands, causing inappropriate and inappropriate content to be disseminated.
Unfortunately, in the perversion of this practice, we find grooming, the groomer is an individual who seeks to harm minors through the use of social networks and technological methods to contact people, generally much younger, disguising their appearance to obtain material sexually explicit of his victims.
“It has become terribly obvious that our technology has surpassed our humanity. “Albert Einstein.
Referring to the issue at hand, we can say that sex and technology are a controversial couple, technology opens up a field of possibilities, but the counterpart is that many of them, far from favoring us, can do us very badly. Whether we want or not, besides being our right, has a lot to do with our self-esteem and empathy.
On the other hand, technology has revolutionized the emotional bond of individuals, applications like Tinder, which give rise to relationships or pseudo-relationships in which all stages pass very quickly, fit very well into a somewhat perverse conception of love: love as an object. independent consumption of the other.
Technology has also developed so-called haptic devices (related to touch), i. e. devices that simulate the feeling of touching or being touched by another person, but all this virtual sex that can be considered an advantage does not imply that intimate communication actually improves, in many cases has generated conflicts, mistrust and serious losses.
At the end of the day, we could say that it’s not about the technology itself, it’s about how we apply it. The technology applied to sex is not bad in itself; our use or abuse of it will determine your benefits for each person or partner.