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...doubt, we’ll have teleportation devices. Maybe they’ll look like telephone booths, or perhaps they’ll resemble the Orgasmatron from Woody Allen’s Sleeper. In any case, when they finally are invented, teleporters will be the final surrender of travel to the armies of abstraction. And then the hoards of lei-draped tourists boarding their Abstraction Airlines flight to Costa Rica will shout, “So much for the journey. All hail the destination...

Author: By Christopher W. Snyder, WRIT SMALL | Title: Flying Abstraction Airlines | 3/19/2004 | See Source »

...holy grail of pornography, though, has always been a machine that delivers a virtual experience so real that it is indistinguishable from sex, other than the fact that it isn't at all disappointing. Though prototypes have appeared in films (the Pleasure Organ in Barbarella, the Orgasmatron in Sleeper, the fembots in Austin Powers), reality has remained painfully elusive. In his 1991 book Virtual Reality, Howard Rheingold devoted an entire chapter to "teledildonics," his not-so-clever name for devices that allow people to have sex without being in the same area code. Rheingold imagines putting on a "diaphanous bodysuit...

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

...Attention all scientists/inventors: science fiction would have us believe that with the year 2000 comes faster-than-light travel and matter displacement. Let's get a move on, eggheads. A simple orgasmatron will probably suffice...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fifteen Minutes: Groovy Train | 2/3/2000 | See Source »

...pain-suppressing qualities that one day may make it a natural source of pain relief. But other implications were inescapable. Could the ultimate form of Safe Sex be far off? After all, in the go-go brave new millennium, busy women may not have time to get to an Orgasmatron...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Who Needs Men? | 4/7/1997 | See Source »

Their profits can only grow. Radio's electronic orgasmatron shows no signs of exhaustion. Only nine years ago, the Rolling Stones had trouble getting Let's Spend the Night Together on the air. But that was before radio became the billion-dollar record industry's top sales force. Once dormant FM stations now compete for AM's vast audience, who are mostly disc-hungry teen-agers with money to burn. Orgasmic rock, which flourishes on singles, does not outsell everything else; the top records are soft, romantic rock albums. But when a company wants to launch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Sex Rock | 12/29/1975 | See Source »

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