Sunday, May 19, 2019

Life & Love Substitutes


Headlining the main page of the Life section of the Straits Times today:
        “ Breaking Taboos
         Talking about sex is becoming less of a taboo now, with intimacy coaching, sexual wellness events and sex toy parties gaining popularity among the young”
         Astonishing. 
         Perfectly understandable.
         Precisely what one would expect from the housing towers, grills, CCTV and sheltered walkways, the malls, F-book and Instagram penetration, the growing automation and robotics in a free fuck everybody/nobody market economy. 
         Almost real sex toys. Once integrated properly with virtual and augmented reality, pleasure, excitement and comfort at a swipe, or voice command. The Internet of Things.
         The angles and quirks of these slight, stick figures on the streets here that fetch back to the old Chinese scroll paintings could be produced in soft, malleable form for holding, squeezing for dear life, covering the surface with kisses and joining as one body in the old time honoured way.
         Superior latex stretched over cheekbones and forming hollows for delicate mouths like that of the young lass passed on the march up to supper at Tasvee who had yawned with a narrow winsome chasm. The lovely actresses of the French New Wave cinema knew how to fake that. A simple, natural look like the Geylang Road girl would be perhaps just a tiny bit harder to reproduce.
         Curvaceous limbs had long been straightforward; formerly difficult hands and feet have been mastered with scanning. Delivering convincing animation might not present insurmountable challenges for recent generations.
         Sculpted smooth jaws like tubers of plants like leeks say, ears glistening shells and eyes…. What were they saying now the biological anthropologists how many hundreds of thousands of years had been needed for the human eye to emerge from the failed, inadequate forms?
         Encoding the gestures could not prove difficult for the contemporary technicians; sighs and groans in the audio files countless to choose from. Conversation derived from novels and flicks.
         With wider usage prohibitive prices would fall and over time superior product available on the shelves mail-order branded.

                                                                                                   S. T. Sunday 19 May 2019

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