One trend that science fiction writers have been reluctant to project into the future is the rise of sexual permissiveness.
The reason is obvious : go much past current norms and you are inevitably writing pornography. A talented writer can imply an orgiastic future without being explicit about it, but it is still going to be the sort of story one can’t exactly sell to Disney.
Meaning alas. my dream of wildly explicit animated pornography with Disney level production values and animation will have to continue to wait till I am a billionaire.
At that point, watch the fuck out.
But to me, there is much amusement and titillation to be had in imagining a future where the liberation of the libido has advanced to the point where they as are far ahead of us as we are ahead of the bad old days of the repressive 50’s.
Just imagine it. Explicit sex everywhere. TV, movies, billboards, bus benches, you name it. If it has ads on it now, it has what we would consider hardcore porn on it in this future.
Not all the time, of course. There would still be non-sexual entertainment galore. Sitcoms and rom-coms and action movies and medical dramas and all the rest.
It’s just that wherever “sex sells”, the sex would be completely explicit.
In fact, pornography as we know it might have disappeared entirely because in a world where a five way anal fuckfest is used to sell corn flakes, who needs porn?
Oh, and of course, all clothing and other public lewdness restrictions are long gone. You could show up to church stark naked and with vibrators in every orifice and boink yourself for the entire sermon and nobody would bat an eye as long as you were quiet about it and didn’t leave a stain.
You could even bring a friend or ten. Public sex would be totally legal. It would be looked upon like all other public displays of affection : perfectly legal but depending on the situation and how loud and/or obvious one is about it, possibly considered socially unacceptable, especially if people are trying to eat.
In the interests of not getting canceled, I will leave the kiddies and our four legged friends out of the picture for now.
To my filthy mind, the most interesting part of this future is what effect on society would this revolution have? It is my belief that a truly sexually free world, where everyone can get as much of whatever sex they need without shame of fear, would be a much more relaxed and reasonable place to live.
A satiated world is a safer world. Go pax orgasmus!
The obvious setup for this kind of story would be to have a hip, progressive person from our time get transported to this highly fuckable future and have their minds blown to the point of turning them into radical social conservatives by all that lovely humping.
Could be pretty funny, to be honest. And fun.
Of course, it would also be incredibly obscene. For me, it would not be enough to merely imply things. I’d want the audience to feel some of the shock too.
And hopefully turn that shock into laughter. The good, deep down belly laugh kind of laughter that releases loads of tension and is good for the soul.
What can I say, I want to heal the world with laughter. So sue me.
Obviously, my version of things would be considered pornography. And I am a million percent fine with that. I would love to be a famous pornographer.
I consider it a higher calling.
I’d love to heal the world with porn, too.
More after the break.
A pound of betrayal
Here’s the news from Tamriel, in other words, from the game Oblivion.
So I went through the whole Thieves Guild plotline with my current stealth archer character, whom I named Heartseeker.
Not my best work, in retrospect, but what the hell. I dare not linger on what to calla character or I will end up agonizing over it for hours as I try to pick the “perfect” name that truly expresses the essence of my creation.
So I tend to go with the first name I think of that doesn’t make me wanna puke.
The Thieves’ Guild plotline was okay. A little alarmed at how easily I took to burgling once I got over my initial qualms.
Normally I would feel too guilty. But the thing about burgling is that you never actually see the sad look on your victims’ faces when they find their stuff is gone. I will be long gone and counting the money I got for fencing it by then,
So it’s remarkably easy to rationalize and compartmentalize.
Then I moved on to the Dark Brotherhood (aka the Assassins’ Guild) plotline. So now i am killing people instead of merely robbing them.
Perhaps because I had already rationalized being a thief, it didn’t take me a whole lot longer to get used to assassinating folk.
This was greatly helped along by the fact that the assassination missions are incredibly well designed. Every one of them has been unique, exciting, challenging, and just plain a whole lot of fun.
For one, I had to break into a prison and kill a prisoner without any of the guards eeing me. Another time, I had to arrange an “accident” for someone by loosening the screws holding a decorative mounted troll head while they were sitting underneath it.
I am a little ashamed at how much fun I had murdering people.
And the whole time, I was supported by the other assassins in my Sanctuary. They were all nothing but totally awesome to me (except for one grumpy khajjit) and I loved each and every one of them. They were my Brothers and Sisters. The guild mistress was like a mother to me.
Then the head of the organizing orders me to kill them all.
Um. Nope. Not gonna happen. I am not. deep down, an evil person, and I am not going to kill all my new friends just because the higher ups think ONE of them MIGHT be a traitor. I don’t care what Lucien Lachance says!
He seems twitchy and sketchy AF anyhow. I bet he’s lying about this being something the Black Hand (ruling council of the Dark Brotherhood) ordered and he is actually just trying to silence someone who knows about something HE did to betray us!
But I looked it up and there is no way around it. If I want to go any further in the Dark Brotherhood plotline, I have to kill them all.
Well fuck that.
Then again, I am going to start a new character soon. An evil necromancer. And he’s going to be more…. ethically flexible.
So I will get there eventually.
I’m learning a lot about myself.
I will talk to you nice people again tomorrow.