In the Times to Come: Imagining the Adult Entertainment of Tomorrow

M. Christian
5 Min Read

Do you think today’s exciting? You ain’t seen nothin’ yet

We’ve only just begun to see the erotic potential of technologies like machine learning systems, mixed reality headsets, and the growing proliferation of Internet-enabled smart sextoys—which, in the next few years, may enable us to enjoy erotic activities beyond our wildest imaginations.

With a little help from our friends

From casting the performers, setting the stage, filming the action, editing out the dull bits, and packaging them for sale, making adult content takes a surprising amount of work.  

So much so that those involved usually have to stick with what they know will sell: a business philosophy that far too often means having to leave risk-taking innovations behind and leaving consumers to settle for what they can find as opposed to what they actually want.

At least, that’s how it used to be. Now, with the advent of video image systems like OpenAI’s Sora, it may soon be possible to create an entire production by asking an artificial intelligence to make it for you.

It should come as no surprise that the adult entertainment industry is already working on it. According to The Washington Post, Steven Jones of Porn.ai described his site as being “where people can explore their sexualities and fantasies in a safe space.” And that “Unlike some corners of the traditional adult industry, no performers are being pressured, underpaid or placed in harm’s way.”

With this in mind, it’s easy to envision a time when, if we can describe it, an AI system will be able to create it for us—including our choice of actors, voices, and activities, or anything else we may desire.

Seeing is believing

Why stop by merely watching our fully customized adult experience? Artificial companions are also progressing by leaps and bounds. While we may be more than a few decades away from autonomous sexbots, in a much shorter time frame, we could see hyper-realistic ones capable of moving certain (ahem) parts of their bodies very realistically.

Where this intersects with adult entertainment is that, with the help of mixed reality hardware like Apple’s groundbreaking Apple Vision Pro, you could make your artificial companion appear like anyone or anything you’d like.  

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Plus, augmented reality would allow you to merge your personalized sexbot with whatever sexual wonderlands you and your partner-in-erotica artificial intelligence might create together.

Looking at sexually explicit movies is certainly fun so why shouldn’t we also expand our sensual horizons by feeling them as well?

Reach out and touch

Feeling in virtual reality isn’t that far off. In fact, erotic augmented reality games like HoloKatsu already support bhaptics’ TactGloves, so likely, we’ll be seeing far more advanced haptic systems readily available.

In the meantime, smart sextech products have already become mainstream, with Bluetooth-enabled toys such as Kiiroo’s Pearl3 Vibrator and others capable of seamlessly linking to specially-coded 2D or virtual reality adult films.

Connect one or more of these sextoys—as well as some other haptic tech goodies—and in a few years; you’ll hear, see, feel, touch, and perhaps also taste everything and everyone in your AI-generated fully immersive adult fantasy.

A never-ending story

Wait, there’s more! After all, if an artificial intelligence can help make the adult movie of your dreams, why shouldn’t it be able to make it interactive as well—or even an ongoing erotic adventure?

Rather than making static performers programmed for a specific set of sexual actions, you’d have a cast of limited-function AI playmates, with their own drives, desires, motivations, and, yes, their own turn-ons.

Tomorrow’s digital erotic adventures could be like stepping into a fully realized, totally immersive digital world and less like sitting back and watching a pre-scripted story unfold.

All together now

One-on-one playtime is fine and all, but what about sharing your good times with others? By plugging your hyper-realistic sexual fantasy into the net, you could open it—and yourself, of course—to entirely new erotic experiences. 

Maybe humanity will reach a point where we won’t know who (or what) we’re playing with—where the only thing that’s important is that everyone has a good time.

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M.Christian (they/them) loves nothing better than exploring the intersections of sex and technology—and speculating on the future of both. A highly regarded erotica writer they have six novels,12 collections, 100+ short stories, and 25 anthologies as an editor to their name. Their non-fiction regularly appears in many sites, but they're most proud of being a regular contributor to Future of Sex. Of their erotic fiction, Tristan Taormino said that “M.Christian is a literary stylist of the highest caliber: smart, funny, frightening, sexy—there's nothing [they] can't write about… and brilliantly.” Reflecting their unique ability to sympathetically and convincingly write for a range of genders and sexual orientations, their stories have appeared in multiple editions of Best American Erotica, Best Gay Erotica, Best Lesbian Erotica, The Mammoth Books of Erotica, and others. Their collection of gay erotic fiction, Dirty Words, was a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award. While a majority of their stories have been collected into books like Dirty Words, their fondness for combining sex and science fiction is clearly evident in collections that include Rude Mechanicals, Technorotica, Better Than The Real Thing, Skin Effect Effect, Bachelor Machine, and Hard Drive: The Best Sci-Fi Erotica of M.Christian. As a novelist, M.Christian’s versatility is on full display with Running Dry, The Very Bloody Marys, Brushes, Painted Doll; and the somewhat controversial queer BDSM/horror/thrillers Finger's Breadth, and Me2. M.Christian has worked on the industry’s production side as an Associate Publisher for Renaissance E Books and as a Publisher for Digital Parchment Services. The latter dedicated to celebrating the works of science-fiction legends such as William Rotsler, Jerome Bixby, Jody Scott, Arthur Byron Cover, Ernest Hogan, and James Van Hise. Covering topics like BDSM safety, sexual education, senior sexuality concerns, queer and gender issues, plus reviewing a variety of sex tech products, M.Christian’s non-fiction has appeared on sites like Kinkly, Tickle.Life, Sexpert, Queer Majority, Sex for Every Body, and—of course—their ongoing work for Future of Sex. If there’s anything M.Christian enjoys more than writing, it’s teaching. A featured presenter, sometimes with their friend Ralph Greco Jr, at national sex and BDSM events, they have lectured on kink play (with an emphasis on safety), polyamory, boosting sexual creativity, and erotica writing--for beginners or those wanting to go pro. M.Christian is a cohost on two popular sex-education podcasts: Love’s Outer Limits with Dr. Amy Marsh and Licking Non-Vanilla with Ralph Greco, Jr.