The Metaverse will Be the Leading Cause of Erectile Dysfunction in the Future
The metaverse is a dystopian nightmare waiting to become a reality. Everything from its namesake to the hyper-monetization involving cryptocurrencies and NFTs spell nothing but doom for it. Yet, the metaverse is not without its merits. It will make pornography and sex work safer and more accessible to those who indulge in it. Create jobs for people who want to work in this field; even forge a new digital market for sexual subcultures like furries. However, despite these positives, the metaverse is just as likely to raise a generation of porn addicts. People who can’t control their spending when presented with the opportunity to engage in virtual sex; or spend their entire day masturbating to yiff. Constant exposure to sexual content will also desensitize men to sexual content, creating a generation that will find it nearly impossible to become aroused. Furthermore, due to overexposure to porn, developing minds will inevitably find themselves addicted to the constant stream of pornographic content available.
Pornography is enjoyable; that is a proven fact. Most healthy adults will openly admit to partaking in it to varying degrees. At least 35% of all internet downloads are pornography-related. Plus, even if you don’t agree with the two prior statements, the fact that the porn industry generates $12bn in revenue yearly should tell you something about its popularity. Pornography is so ubiquitous that as you’re reading this article, someone you’re acquainted with is masturbating to porn right now. But do I believe that’s a problem?
Nope, humans are sexual creatures, and sporadically indulging in the fantasy elements of pornography is normal. Yet, too much of a good thing can be a problem. A porn addicts’ personal and professional life suffers devastating ramifications due to their uncontrollable urges. After all, it’s rather challenging to do work when both hands are preoccupied. Nobody knows this better, though than the victims who have to endure it daily. But, if porn addiction is such a devastating problem, why don’t more people seek help for it? Stigma.
American society, for the most part, tends to demonize addicts. It treats them as social pariahs with poor moral fiber. Bad actors in the play of life, and then it uses those determinations to justify their treatment of these victims. The government, for example, offers minimal funding to programs that help addicts. Our private jails, until recently, didn’t provide rehabilitation services to inmates. Even churches, typical safe havens for the sick, needy and poor, aren’t exempt from this behavior. While they might offer counsel to a person, the fact is, an addict can’t pray away their addiction anymore than they can cancer. Yet, perhaps it’s for the United States to rethink its strategy for dealing with mental health because the metaverse is about to create a new legion of porn addicts with erectile dysfunction.
The internet era made it so that porn was never farther than a screen lock away. All you need is a wireless connection and a smartphone to look at all the pornography your heart desires. But, it was only looking, never touching, never feeling. Exchanging lewds, watching streamers having sex, reading a doujinshi, or visiting porntube were all visual experiences. Despite being visually pleasing, the only physical feedback available to the observer was through autoerotic behaviors. This limitation created a wall, though, meaning that viewing pornography would never compare to real sex. While it didn’t mean that people couldn’t become addicted to pornography, self-pleasure wouldn’t nearly have the same impact as fully simulated coupling. The metaverse, however, is about to overcome that hurdle in a meaningful way.
Facebook’s metaverse will feature fully simulated sex. It’s inevitable; if it is the next evolution of the internet, it will not be long until someone
creates the first metaverse porn site/game; that’s if it doesn’t exist already. But, you might be asking yourself, how is that any different than pornography today? Simple, the metaverse will integrate haptic technology. Currently, engineers are designing suits that use this tech to simulate sensations from virtual reality games on our bodies. When this type of technology becomes available to the masses, it will turn online pornography on its head.
Suddenly, it will not be about watching porn but fully interacting with it in a three-dimensional environment. The limitations of our world won’t exist in the metaverse, and with it, a brand new reality will take its place. Inside the virtual world, your imagination is the limit. Want to be a three-legged wolf or a mutant that regrows limbs? You can do it. Are you into big beautiful women, people of short stature, or anthropomorphic cats? The metaverse can provide their services to you for a nominal fee. Want to be chased by an alien monster hell-bent on impregnating your fertile body? Go for it. But if you’re thinking this sounds like heaven, and nothing could go wrong. Well, that’s not exactly right.
If people can become porn addicts by merely watching it from a computer, what will it be like when they can feel it? Sex is addictive; it’s one of the most intimate acts we can do as humans. It provides a veritable cocktail of hormones that stimulate our very essence. Every stroke, touch, kiss, and sensation that comes with sex reminds us that we are human. Which is only part of why we love it since it also comes with the added benefit of ensuring our species survives. But, to engage in sex in the real world, we have to seek it out. Whether that’s paying for it; or hooking up through an app, there is some form of action involved.
The metaverse, however, will have no such physical limitations. People are free to pay for as much virtual sex as inhumanly possible without leaving their house, and no law in the world can stop it. After all, while prostitution is illegal in some countries, the metaverse exists outside any country. It’s inside the internet and your headset. The rule of law of the metaverse will belong to the companies hosting the servers, and only Jack Jillenberg’s words are law. That’s if he can even control his creation because the metaverse is shaping up to be the online equivalent of Frankenstein’s monster. Once it’s free, there will be no stopping it.
In the same way, the first porn site came to be a reality, so will porn happen inside the metaverse. Plenty of startups will be racing against time to incorporate the technology of haptic suits into their VR games. It will be a rush to the finish line for them, and with that, a plethora of bugs and glitches will follow. The best they can hope for is that nobody dies in their hedonistic pursuits (e.g. they starve to death). However, the constant stimuli will have grave consequences for developing minds. The endless stream of hormones will rewire their brain. It will make them harder to find appeal in the real world, cause erectile dysfunction, and open an avenue for all manner of sexual deviants (read pedophiles, zoophiles, and necrophiliacs) to engage in unsavory acts. Yet, those will be stories for another day, as we have focus on Facebook’s creation for what it is right now.
The metaverse is the wild west of the future. People will inevitably go crazy pushing the boundaries of what they can achieve inside of it. But, pleasure is addicting, and by the time they realize there is a problem, they’ll be too ashamed to get help. Still, none of that will matter to the people who will now be able to indulge in their darkest fantasies. They will experience a constant barrage of sexual encounters from their headsets; until they become desensitized to it all. Nothing, except the most depraved of acts, even getting a reaction from them. But that isn’t the worst of it. No, indeed, the most destructive part is that nobody will be able to stop it. After all, the metaverse is not a real place. People aren’t having real sex, and paying someone to role-play with you isn’t illegal. Not even if that person pays someone to take the form of a realistic cow for them.