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Virtual reality porn offers a super immersive experience that regular porn just can’t match. In the best videos, you get the feeling that you are present in another space. Virtual reality specialists call this feeling “presence.” This sense of realism makes some guys with girlfriends or wives feel guilty about watching virtual reality porn. Should you be worried that you are cheating?
No!
You shouldn’t be worried! Although more realistic, virtual reality porn technically and ontologically is the same as regular non-virtual reality porn. Your girlfriend may think otherwise but let me explain why.
The Girl in the Video is a Representation
Just like regular non-virtual reality porn, the girl in the video is an illustration, a picture, a recorded image. Shes not an actual person. Tell your girlfriend that it’s the same thing as bating to a drawing. Although technologically more complex, virtual reality porn just provides images of women. These images can be manipulated in a way that more or less mirrors the movement of your head.
Stepsis Cheating While on Phone | Image Credit: VirtualTaboo
This process is called head tracking which works by using a technology called accelerometers. With this setup, it appears that you are looking around a virtual space. In reality, what you are doing is just scrolling around and focusing on portions of a video.
Virtual Reality Porn is a Fantasy or a Dream
Now that we have established that virtual reality porn does not entail sexual acts between two entities but rather one entity and representations, we can move on to what virtual reality porn is. In the purest sense, virtual reality porn is a fantasy akin to a dream. Certainly, it’s a high tech and specifically selected fantasy, but a fantasy none the less. Our capitalist system encourages our desires and fantasies. It programs them to live within us and builds them into our environments
Supporting this perspective, the philosopher Gilles Deleuze and psychotherapist Felix Guattari called modern people “desiring machines.” The argued that desire itself was a root cause for all of our actions. Capitalism has channeled this desire and actualized it in a variety of ways.
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Pop culture philosopher Slavoj Žižek noted that this process is found in every can of coke. You drink Coke because you are thirsty. The high sugar and salt content dehydrates you. As a result, Coke makes you thirsty again. And then, you end up drinking more Coke. This process creates and sustains a cycle of Coke desire.
Your Girlfriend has Erotic Dreams Every Night
So, if we are desiring machines, and virtual reality pornos are representations of our fantasies, where does that leave us? With questions about the fantasies of our girlfriends, wives, or partners. They have fantasies too! If they say that you are their only fantasy they are lying. A comedian once said that all women love three things: 1) Southern Comfort, 2) Chris Isaak’s “Wicked Game” and 3) Men in kilts. I have found this to be true. If your lady isn’t fantasizing about men in kilts, she’s lying to you or herself. Fine. It may not be men in kilts. It could be Sean Connery. Either way, she has fantasies. These fantasies play out in her dreams every night. She doesn’t feel guilty about them.
With all of this in mind, you shouldn’t feel guilty about virtual reality porn. In sum, virtual reality porn is high tech, yes, but it is mere representation. If anything its a representation of your desire, the capitalist system, and the fantasies that society has put there.
Good explanation to reduce the guilt of a man!… Lolz
no i think its not cheating at all… watching porn is natural and experiencing it in VR is just upgrading the experience
yeah..very well explained. I agree with it.