The Future of Sex Isn’t All That Promising

So, in the future, sex will be like a video game? Great. As if he isn't playing enough 'Halo' already. Image via dpape/FLICKR

If you’re like me, you’re pretty pissed that we aren’t traveling around in flying cars—or at least teleporting from point A to point B—now that it’s 2011.

But I apparently shouldn’t be too disappointed in the lack of technological advancement for two reasons. One, it keeps the Marty McFlys of the world at bay. And two, some seriously sexy stuff is only 19 years away. Because in the year 2030, remote virtual love making will exist.

In layman’s terms: LONG-DISTANCE SEXY TIME.

The prediction was made by an engineer and “futurologist” hired by Travelodge. He explains virtual sex as a way for partner’s to connect while away from home. Granted you’ll need to stay in a hotel, which doesn’t offer much of a solution to couples who are too-far-for-sex on a permanent basis, but at least it’s a start, right? I mean, virtual reality sex. It’s got to provide some benefit, correct? Something better than masturbation? Unless, of course, it’s all just an illusion to create a sense of intimacy even when thousands of miles separate you, in which case why not just choke your chicken while staring at a picture of your significant other? But, I digress…

The only apparent downside (aside from all of those listed above) is the ‘special accommodations’ that that can be applied to each romp in the virtual sack. Fancy glasses can be worn by the hotel-stayer to change the appearance of his/her partner. And the person on the other end will have no idea.

So, you want to put your cyber P into my virtual-reality V, but you’re going to morph my face, ass and tits in the process? No bueno, future lover. No bueno.

Unless, of course, I can turn you into a mixture of Ryan Gosling and Jake Gyllenhaal while I’m on a business trip in 2030. In which case, beware—I may never come home.

Source: The “Futurologists” at Travelodge, via The Telegraph