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Supposedly, the first group of content providers to colonize a new medium once it becomes commercially viable will almost always be the producers of adult-oriented material—i.e., pornography. They will, of course, attempt to maximize their profits by flooding their customers with product. This, in turn, will drive up demand, pushing the new medium into the mass market, where economies of scale come into play and make it affordable for increasing numbers of consumers. As more consumers can afford the medium, more non-adult content becomes available, until finally the adult material becomes a niche rather than the primary content available. (But not before the media and Moral Guardians get ahold of it and create a moral panic about all that "smut".) This belief does appear to be promoted by the adult industry itself with the result that a significant number of claims don't hold up to scrutiny. |
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Parodied in Coupling in which, after making a brave attempt at rationalizing his possession of a movie called "Lesbian Spank Inferno" with in-depth critical and symbolic analysis to the other members of a dinner party after his female friends bring it up to embarrass him, Steve cracks and engages in a lengthy and not-unconvincing rant in which he makes the case that the entire history of human artistic and technological development — right back to the discovery of fire — has been motivated solely so that men could get a better look at women's bottoms. | |
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Similarly to Caprica, the Shirow Masamune series Real Drive. The potentially world changing Meta-real was popularized as and continues to be used for sexy purposes. | |
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One of Cracked's 22 Terrible Ways We Would Use Sci-Fi Technology is using a Star Trek replicator to make a sex toy. | |
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Interspecies Reviewers approaches this topic with a certain amount of frank levity. Grand Mage Demia, who has her own stake in the adult entertainment industry, uses her "business" to fund her research, and markets some of her discoveries and creations in terms of said adult entertainment in order to recoup research expenses and raise funds for more projects. She has employees running facilities for 'enjoying' gender-bending potions and water-based magical slime, maintains a large crew of Decoy Doll clones that dominate the Succu-girl scene in her hometown, and she actively discusses this trope when she talks about how it was more lucrative for her to market rings of fire resistance towards men eager to have sex with Salamander fire spirit women rather than to have them only as niche specialist gear for adventurers looking for a source of fire resistance. | |
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While the early computer game industry had relatively few sex related games, the potential was recognized by just about everyone from the start, and one text-based title — Softporn Adventure by Sierra Games — was a notable breakout title. Parts of Softporn eventually became the basis of the hugely successful Leisure Suit Larry series. A number of video strip poker games had some modest success, as well, with a notable example being Artworx's Strip Poker from 1982-83. The early video game industry had even less room for sex, which is not surprising given the perceived target audience. This was especially true on the consoles, where the hardware was hardly up to the task, and the market severely restricted by high entry costs and the watchful eyes of the Moral Guardians. Nonetheless, at least one company, Mystique, released a few such titles, most infamous of which being Custer's Revenge. Averted with the PC-FX. NEC was one of the few console companies to actually license adult games in hopes of gaining a foothold (and even certain, if not most, non-porn games featured some level of fanservice, some even involving minors), and the system still bombed. |
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The Naked Director: This occurs in episode 1.3, set in the early 1980s. The folks behind VHS, locked in a battle with the folks who make Betamax, go to Izekawa the pornographer and offer him a Briefcase Full of Money as a bribe to adopt their format. It works. | |
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This was also basically the first use for the World of Warcraft Dance Studio while it was in beta testing — which resulted in it never being finished. | |
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One of the first third-party supplements to be produced and sold when Dungeons & Dragons owner Wizards of the Coast developed the Open Game Licensenote essentially declaring the d20 System and the core Dungeons & Dragons 3rd Edition rulebooks to be open-source was The Book of Erotic Fantasy, which is exactly what it sounds like: a gameplay and gamemastering manual for R- and X-rated adventuring. The same creative team later made a new version for Pathfinder called The Book of Passion. | |
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Star Trek: Deep Space Nine seemed to be the only Star Trek series to realise that the only thing most people would use a holodeck for would be having sex. Quark's was essentially a holo-brothel, although the Federation characters were just a bit too squeaky clean to ever use it for that (onscreen). You might wonder how anyone would ever get anything done in the 24th Century with the ability to create fully functional, three-dimensional interactive characters that have no free will whatsoever. As Scott Adams (creator of Dilbert) once wrote, "The holodeck will be mankind's last invention." | |
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Tropic Thunder: Discussed about how Blu-Ray overpowered HD-DVD: | |
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Star Trek: Star Trek: Deep Space Nine seemed to be the only Star Trek series to realise that the only thing most people would use a holodeck for would be having sex. Quark's was essentially a holo-brothel, although the Federation characters were just a bit too squeaky clean to ever use it for that (onscreen). You might wonder how anyone would ever get anything done in the 24th Century with the ability to create fully functional, three-dimensional interactive characters that have no free will whatsoever. As Scott Adams (creator of Dilbert) once wrote, "The holodeck will be mankind's last invention." Star Trek: The Next Generation implied that use with Barclay and his holo-addiction and Geordi and his recreation of Leah Brahms, that female engineer. In both cases the real people were very angry when they saw how their holographic selves were being used (Deanna Troi, in particular, when she was cast as "the Goddess of Empathy"). Riker had to reluctantly tear himself away from Famke Janssen. See it here. Star Trek: Voyager actually featured Tom Paris simulating an attractive female Vulcan for the sole purpose of sex, but only because another Vulcan (Tuvok) on the ship was going through pon farr (and with Tuvok's permission, said female was modelled on Tuvok's own wife, at the time still several decades of direct uninterrupted travel away). Earlier than that on Voyager, the Doctor created a holographic female Vulcan companion for another male Vulcan going through the pon farr. |
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Referenced in 30 Rock, where Tracy Jordan decides to combine two things he loves; porn and videogames. One of the guys in the writing staff tells him it's impossible because of the Unintentional Uncanny Valley, and cites that all the best have tried, including the Japanese. Against all the odds Tracy actually succeeds in creating his porn video game. invoked | |
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Dollhouse took this to a new extreme: the technology that will reprogram humanity into a horde of mindless engines of pure violence and bring about the apocalypse? Let alone allow the technology that would allow the villains behind said apocalypse to gain immortality via erasing innocent peoples' minds and over-writing them with their own mind? It came from technology that allowed for prostitutes/escorts to be programmed into personalized sex puppets. Which itself seems like a Shout-Out to Molly Millions, the best-known character of William Gibson. In Neuromancer the use of sex puppets is the only thing such technology is used for. The most surprising thing about Dollhouse is not that people use the technology for that... it's that not only are there people who use it for other things than that, "other things" seems to actually predominate, at least from the examples we're shown. Of course, even an extremely high-priced callgirl would be cheaper than hiring an operative, so people who just want sex have less expensive alternatives. |
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The Good Place: When Janet creates a highly realistic virtual reality software, Eleanor's first question is whether she can use it to simulate sex with a celebrity. Janet can't understand why this is the human reaction to new technology, but she later has to argue unconvincingly that a currently running scenario of her love interest in a sauna is "a glitch". A later episode reveals that the vast majority of the time, when someone does something that's never been done before, it's for the purpose of a weird sex thing. This trope is then Double Subverted when a new activity is tracked, which is a man hollowing out an eggplant and filling it with coins and hot sauce, which strangely doesn't seem to be a weird sex thing... and then they get an update of the situation, and confirm that it was. (The guy responsible for filing anything classified as a weird sex thing is very depressed.) |
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Hijinks Ensue brings up the Holodeck quite wonderfully right here. (Not entirely safe for work, but good for a laugh.) Turns out they had to change the name. | |
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2048 soon gave birth to versions where raunchy images or GIFs replaced the numbers. | |
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Minecraft and its gigantic penis monuments in Creative mode. | |
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In Empath: The Luckiest Smurf, the first use of the Imaginarium was to... well, satisfy a Smurf's desire to be alone with a Smurfette. The real Smurfette was not pleased to see Brainy replaying the role of King Smurf having an imagined version of herself being his personal servant. | |
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In the Battlestar Galactica Spin-Off Caprica, two of the characters are discussing the Holoband, essentially an easy on, easy off, voluntary Matrix. Guess who first adopted the technology. | |
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Before Sailor Moon, Pokémon: The Series and other children-targeted shows were brought to America, anime was practically synonymous with porn. This was because the only people who could afford it and had an interest were older sci-fi nerds looking for something different. Amusingly, that also brought in a group of people that cop to the idea that characters for those children-targeted shows were designed specifically so that porn would be made out of them (given the above statement that former eromangaka also work in clean comics), thus bringing the concept full circle. | |
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In a PG example, The Legend of Korra has shipping magnate Verrick create the Avatar-verse version of Sallie Gardner at a Gallop. His idea for how to use this new medium to its full potential? He wants to have Ginger pose for the camera. | |
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Sex is possible in-game in Sword Art Online. While that wasn't the first adopter, when the designer built his VMMORPG deathtrap, he made sure to include the option. | |
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While it doesn't show up in the plot of OtherLife, the characters specifically namecheck that porn is likely to be one of the first adopters of their technology that allows insertion of new memories that will be experienced as dreams. | |
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Star Trek: Voyager actually featured Tom Paris simulating an attractive female Vulcan for the sole purpose of sex, but only because another Vulcan (Tuvok) on the ship was going through pon farr (and with Tuvok's permission, said female was modelled on Tuvok's own wife, at the time still several decades of direct uninterrupted travel away). | |
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In the Babylon 5 movie The River of Souls, a sketchy businessman runs a holo-brothel in Down Below, using holograms and special suits to simulate touch. It is never stated how often the suits are cleaned, but they are glitchy enough to occasionally electrocute the wearer. Not just used for a brothel, but a celebrity/famous person brothel. One of the images used is that of the station commander Elizabeth Lochley. |
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Star Trek: The Next Generation implied that use with Barclay and his holo-addiction and Geordi and his recreation of Leah Brahms, that female engineer. In both cases the real people were very angry when they saw how their holographic selves were being used (Deanna Troi, in particular, when she was cast as "the Goddess of Empathy"). | |
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A variation happens in Cobra Kai in which Johnny Lawrence buys his first computer (an 10-year-old Dell laptop) and discovers the Internet for the first time. The very first thing he searches is "hot babes" and "wet t-shirt contests." | |
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