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Sasha Grey is much more than just a porn actress these days. She’s been busy volunteering as a guest reader for elementary school children in California among various other philanthropic activities. Nevertheless, this didn’t stop her from voicing her opinion on the state of the industry when it comes to virtual reality porn in a recent interview with CNBC.
The award-winning porn star who, according to the A.O Scott of the New York Times “is distinguished both by the extremity of what she is willing to do and an unusual degree of intellectual seriousness about doing it,” had a surprisingly conservative position when it came to VR porn. According to Grey, virtual reality porn is “too much, too in your face” to be enjoyable. Sasha suggests that pornography is all about indulging in fantasy and too much realism can kill the mood. While this might still be true for a few, I think that even this small minority is shrinking.
The Picture of Dorian Gray
A growing number of people not only express their sexuality through porn but actually define their sexuality by it. While Sasha’s position is actually fairly nuanced, she still fails to recognize just how radically transformative pornography has become. The line between virtual sex and sex IRL (in real life) has been diminishing for decades. Art imitates life. For someone whose name is based on the famous novel written by Oscar Wilde (The Picture Of Dorian Gray), I’m surprised miss Grey doesn’t get that.
To suggest that pornography can be too real is like suggesting that art can be too emotionally moving, or that science can be too objectively true. The fact is that the ultimate goal of pornography is to become EXACTLY like real sex. Not only that, but it is the goal of real sex to become as fantastic as pornography. These two spheres of life have become so intimately interwoven that it’s hardly possible to imagine modern sexual fulfillment without a complete marriage of the two.
Meat Space
Sasha, like many others, still believes that porn is a passive technology used to enhance one’s sexual satisfaction – a satisfaction that is ultimately rooted in meat space. But as technology improves, porn will play an increasingly active role in our preferences. It’s this failure to recognize the reciprocal relationship between porn and sex that leads Grey to eventually say “I don’t think people watch porn to have a real experience, it’s for fantasy… I don’t want it to be too real.”
If people don’t want their porn to be “too real” then yes VR porn will fail. But so will television, radio, and every other form of multi-media entertainment that’s currently available. We would all still be reading Dickens and Melville if we wanted more room for imagination. Instead, we’re watching reality television and streaming Youtube. The fact is that people do want their entertainment to be realistic. The question isn’t whether or not people want porn to be like “real sex.” The question is “what will the meaning of ‘real sex’ be once pornography attains perfect realism?” That is the question that VR promises to answer in the coming decades and something that I look forward to witnessing first-hand
VR porn is a new media type, it is for people like me who will never be able to have sex with someone like Sasha.. If she is worried about the future, think about this, in 20 years there will be no porn stars there will be virtual porn stars, you specify the proportions, you pick a face, and it generates all the scenarios, and it will be interactive, and 3D, and.. People will be coming back to the VR porn to see what real women were like..
Sasha just please leave it to your audience to decide what they like… You please on doing the porn job and create more hot videos…
well obviously, Sasha doesn’t watch porn. ALL things are more awesome when they’re more realistic.
I completely disagree with Sasha and I believe that it makes porn more enjoyable to me if I use VR headset.