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...assumed wrong. "It's a little scary," Alexa confessed as we talked on the phone and I squinted at a live picture of her on a tiny, fuzzy box on my screen. I'm pretty sure she's pretty and possibly blond. "It looks like it might hurt me. And it's making these ramming noises. Like a jackhammer." I had never prided myself on being a gentle and considerate lover; "ramming noises" and "like a jackhammer," however, were not phrases I was used to hearing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Will Cybersex Be Better Than Real Sex? | 6/19/2000 | See Source »

...Alexa, ever the playful one, told me she'd take off her top if I could make her light box change colors, so I got one of the tech guys at work to help me. Soon I could see her yawning on my monitor. This, I thought, was getting to be more like the sexual experiences I was accustomed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Will Cybersex Be Better Than Real Sex? | 6/19/2000 | See Source »

After 20 minutes, I think I got the color to change and the scary jackhammer noise to increase. "I get turned on by anything sexual," Alexa purred as she took off her top and jeans. "But not this...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Will Cybersex Be Better Than Real Sex? | 6/19/2000 | See Source »

Still, in the name of science I concentrated on the image of Alexa on the screen and tried to act sexy. "You are driving me crazy," I told...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Will Cybersex Be Better Than Real Sex? | 6/19/2000 | See Source »

Even if the technology vastly improves and if Alexa and I can one day consummate our awkward phone conversation, I don't think teledildonics is the next generation of pornography. Perhaps it might replace 900 numbers, with men paying to control the toys of women they can see on their screens, but that's about it. Most people will still want to enjoy their sexual fantasies alone, because even a programmable robot is going to be just an annoying, unsuccessful intermediary--not to mention a very difficult thing to hide in an underwear drawer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Will Cybersex Be Better Than Real Sex? | 6/19/2000 | See Source »

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