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Buttplug: An open-source software suite for teledildonics

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Re: Buttplug: An open-source software suite for teledildonics

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Post by runeb »

herdodoodo wrote: post #5
seph-reed wrote: post #3

In 2013 I imagined this industry as being the next big thing. Mixed with VR, Deepfake, and Voice changing tech, literally anyone could be anyone fucking anyone. Thank you Buttplug, for getting us closer to that dream.

No doubt the tech is cool, but this is actually somewhat disturbing to me. I see it as an expressway for the continued objectification of women, and an easy way for false nudes to begin spreading around. Even if they aren't real, they still violate the most intimate form of privacy. Maybe this is just me.

I'm sorry your mind immediately goes to such a dark place regarding this subject. Sex and sexual fantasy can be a wonderful thing.

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Post by claudiawerner »

adwn wrote: post #7
herdodoodo wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

No doubt the tech is cool, but this is actually somewhat disturbing to me. I see it as an expressway for the continued objectification of women, and an easy way for false nudes to begin spreading around. Even if they aren't real, they still violate the most intimate form of privacy. Maybe this is just me.

> I see it as an expressway for the continued objectification of women Why? And do you also see it as an expressway for the objectification of men? Of not, why not?

It probably is also an expressway for the objectification of men, but it seems to be used (currently) for women - arguably the objectification of women is much more widespread with modern porn and tech than it is for men. Look at the number of female sex robots on the market versus male sex bots (and no, dildos/fleshlights emulating a single body part such as a penis or vulva by any reasonable argument is not the same kind of objectification of a whole body sex toy), or the amount of porn focusing on the female body versus the male body, nudes of female celebrities leaked versus male celebrities, pornographic deepfakes of women versus deepfakes of men, etc.

Objectification in media is common to both sexes. That does not mean to the same degree or in the same quality. (I'm making no comment as to the harm or benefit of objectification[0] here, and I don't buy the idea that programmable sex toys are a form of objectification).

[0] There is interesting research, though: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11199-019-01024-0 and https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/ab.21719

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Post by whalesalad »

seph-reed wrote: post #3

In 2013 I imagined this industry as being the next big thing. Mixed with VR, Deepfake, and Voice changing tech, literally anyone could be anyone fucking anyone. Thank you Buttplug, for getting us closer to that dream.

Total Recall

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Post by cgb223 »

gnulinux wrote: post #6
vorpalhex wrote: post #2

The io domain is actually for a British Indian Ocean Territory. I know a startup I worked at had issues being allowed to use an io tld previously, are there any concerns with the tld given the provacative nature of teledildonics? Edit: Correction of British Territory to British Indian Ocean Territory

.io domain is for British Indian Ocean Territory: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Indian_Ocean_Territory

> The only inhabitants are US and British military personnel and associated contractors

So wait, all .io domains map to a US/UK military base in the Indian Ocean?

How does that affect privacy...?

Re: Buttplug: An open-source software suite for teledildonics

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Post by ben_w »

enahs-sf wrote: post #4

This sounds like some erotic sci-fi come true. "In a world swept by a pandemic leaving billions unstimulated, teledildonics kept us together."

Here in Berlin, the unavoidably well-advertised dildo company seems to have started a poster campaign just for the pandemic. Roughly translated, the posters read “Keep Calm and Use Dildos”.

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Post by chrischen »

cgb223 wrote: post #16
gnulinux wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

.io domain is for British Indian Ocean Territory: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Indian_Ocean_Territory

> The only inhabitants are US and British military personnel and associated contractors So wait, all .io domains map to a US/UK military base in the Indian Ocean? How does that affect privacy...?

Given that they didn’t give a f*ck about the natives (they kicked off all the native population in the 60s and 70s), probably the same amount of care.
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