Fate of revenge porn: Angry exes could create 3D avatars of past lovers and use their bodies in a virtual world (dailymail.co.uk).
“The future of virtual reality porn could see people create avatars of former lovers to carry out perverse and violent acts on them, a new study warned. The blurring between reality and fantasy is pushing the dangers of porn to a whole new level and could encourage the spread of degrading behaviour. Models based on real ex partners could be the future of revenge porn, warned the study, who call urgently for manufacturers to set guidelines on their technology.”
“Revenge porn” (Wikipedia) being images and or videos shared or stolen used in some way, often by sharing with a wide audience on the internet, to embarrass, intimidate, distress or humiliate the featured and has been a criminal offence in the UK since April 2015 (Pick of the Week 21st Oct. 2015), thirty-four states in the US and several other countries too.
“Vindictive former sexual partners could use the technology to create an immersive experience whereby instead of merely just viewing an explicit two-dimensional image, it would be in three dimensions. This would allow others to ‘have sex’ with the image of the revenge porn victim in the virtual world. … Research lead and PhD student Matthew Wood, added: ‘Pornography has played a key role in the development of new and emerging technologies—from the stereoscope in the 1800s through home video and now virtual reality.’”
Something more than the VR equivalent of Photoshopping Avril Lavigne’s head onto a nude body with a fake facial and some sort of tentacle trope up her arse which simply having even a Fappening cache of nudies of an ex or rejecting stranger would likely be at present I imaging.
“We found that for most people the potential of a VR porn experience opened the doors to an apparently ‘perfect’ sexual experience—a scenario which in the real world no-one could live up to. For others it meant pushing the boundaries, often with highly explicit and violent imagery, and we know from current research into pornography that exposure to this content has the potential to become addictive and more extreme over time.”
With chaps into such currently sitting for hours daily and nightly edging in Gorean bondage ManOChats under the virtual watchful text-based chat eye of an arthritic DOM.
“The team found that the scenarios mainly fell into two types. One was the ‘perfect’ scenario, which included lavish and fantastical events, where the participants imagined that the VR experience would be ‘better than the real thing.’”
Indeed, and undoubtedly involving Avril Lavigne for many in the sort of action frequently wrote in “real people fiction” (Wikipedia) by fantasy bodyguard writing in the first person, but with ninjas, skydiving into the ocean in a rubber dinghy à la Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull and punching a massive great white shark right on the hooter before virtually sticking it up Avril’s bum on a South Seas atoll—with cannibals.
“In the second scenario, participants described what the researchers called a ‘precarious’ scenario. Researcher Matthew Wood said ‘these stories often went beyond what would be acceptable in real life with sometimes violent imagery, featuring men performing degrading sexual acts on women or forcing themselves upon them.’”
Likely still featuring cannibals but members of Girls Alive instead (bbc.co.uk, Jun. 2009).
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