Maybe it's premature but as I sit here on my love seat alone drinking homemade beer, I wonder why the hell no one is talking about what posthuman sex might be like. I mean, sex is always ripe for discussion, right? And don't give me that "posthumans won't be having sex because they don't need to, end of story" crap. That's just a boring thoughtless answer. Obviously, some of the six billion humans on this planet are having sex even though they aren't making babies (my boring thoughtless response).
Like most humans, I generally do "it" because it feels good. Humans, if nothing else, love things that give them pleasure. Given this generalization, I can make a simple assumption here without stepping to far out of line. Posthumans will be having sex because it will still feel good. At least, that's how the future had better be. I don't want to be posthuman if there's no pleasure in it. Who's going to want an upgrade that takes away their desire to seek pleasure. Personally, I'm planning to skip early adopter upgrade versions and wait for ver. 2.0. especially if Microsoft is involved.
Since posthumans will be pleasure seeking and since we can be fairly certain that businesses will be catering to transhuman sexual pleasures (there will be lots of those) when the first posthumans are upgraded into existence, we can move on to imagining what it might be like to have sex as a posthuman.
My first thought on posthuman sex is drawn towards the "Lawnmower Man" type virtual reality sex scenario but this seems kinda boring because of the body suit and v.r. helmet they used in the movie which, by the way, is here but no one has figured out how to make it mass marketable. Instead, I want to start with thoughts on how the posthuman possibly senses the world. The posthuman will, I imagine, have pretty complicated firmware. This firmware could be adjusted at will to allow, for example, an auditory signal to be routed to both the auditory processing system and to pleasure processing systems so that sounds could be perceived as sexual pleasures. Then certain auditory frequencies and amplitudes might lead to a posthuman orgasm (posthuman orgasm to follow). Even this experience is limiting because that auditory stimulation is still related to the current five senses. Going further, I imagine senses being developed in the transhuman era which incorporate a sixth sense that, for example, might be perceived as a kind of pressure or resistance when network bandwidth is restricted possibly due to high volume traffic or slow routing. In this strange posthuman sexual scenario, then, a pair of posthumans or a group of posthumans (maybe posthumans are used to sharing intimacy with groups since sharing will be so easy) link their traffic sensing and routing systems with their pleasure sensing systems, create a virtual private network (VPN) and voila, commence with manipulating bandwidth and wildly manipulating routing network traffic...ooohhh...aaahhh!!! Wild routing of the network traffic...Gotta love that style!
So what happens at the end of the errr...umm...wild routing?
Orgasm of course. Uncontrollable spasms of pleasure and random processes swirling through neural pathways, temporarily overloading and shutting down and then, after a few moments, thoughts and feelings become coherent again as the posthuman mind adjusts and reflects upon what took place just moments earlier
After a pause, the posthuman mind and body settles down. All is calm and relaxed again. Euphoria is all that remains...and some grogginess...
"Was it good for you," she asks, unsure.
You respond, "I have never lasted more than three microseconds since the doctors removed that last bit of biological brain tissue...It Was Great! You continue. Yawning, "Sorry babe but my diagnostics are logging an unusual amount of errors. I need to go into sleep mode for a little while until my maintenance system sorts things out. Night."
Damn, some things never change!
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