What is lacking is a shared sensation. Amateur video porno chat is just instant messaging with pictures. There is the benefit of not needing to learn to type with just one hand, but none the less either party is fully responsible for their own pleasure. When she says that she is stroking my throbbing member the illusion is busted by my hairy knuckles. It takes a considerable amount of imagination to maintain the simulacra (good buzzword use: 10pts).

Enter teledildonics. This growing industry is a marriage between telephony and the adult toy store. Toys are being enabled in many different ways. One manufacturer makes a toy for women, the Sinulator, that is controlled through software via the internet. Plug it into a USB port, launch the software, login to the site, and let a remote lover control the pleasure. Couple this with video chat and you have a shared (albeit one-way) experience. At least no one has to come up with phrases like “throbbing manhood”.

The latest development in teledildonics is “recorded stimulation”. Girls Rainbow of Japan (god, I love the Japanese. Have you seen the Hello Kitty vibrator?) is making a pleasure system that uses an instrument to record activities and another to ‘play’ them back. The target market is amateur and professional web video vixens. The performer uses a dildo, the Virtual-Stick, to record the performance. Imbedded into the dildo are pressure sensors that record direction, speed, and pressure. The recorded data is then embedded into a video or audio file and setup for download. For the client, there is a bowling-pin shaped sleeve (for discreet storage/display) called the Virtual-Hole (I guess it’s better than ‘fleshlight’). It is connect via USB to a PC. Inside the bowling-pin of love are actuators that playback the recorded stimulation when the file is played back.This raises the bar of remote mutual-wanking. The first solution reminds me of Virtual Valerie. Your object is to stimulate her to orgasm. However, you have no actual contact with her. It’s onscreen button pushing and lever pulling (stop snickering). More importantly, it only addresses the woman’s pleasure. I am all for bringing her to a grinning orgasm, but where’s mine? The new twist at least has the street running my way. Two people could stage an encounter. Him controlling the remote vibrator and her on video in all her glory.

Here’s the exchange:

Her: Get the video?
Him: Yep. are you plugged in?
Her: Sure am. Ready?
Him: Let’s not waste bandwidth.
Click, click, moan, yes, click, yes, whirwhirwhir, that’s it, click, whirwhirwhir, moan, click, click, whirwhirwhir, click, click….  

Everyone is happy. If the industry keeps maturing, this type of technology could advance toward two-way realtime traffic. This may mean strange bits of electronically loaded anatomically shaped silicon residing near our computer stations. But it means that holo-suites and stim-suits are just around the corner.

Here are some related links:

• Teledildonics Takes a Step – Regina Lyn of Wired
• Groovin’ on a Sunday Afternoon – Regina Lyn of Wired
• HighJoy
• Je Joue