<a fr-original-style="" href="https://apos.to/a/60034f1a56860f0008078427" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: rgb(9, 9, 9); text-decoration: none; background-color: transparent; outline: none; cursor: pointer; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; touch-action: manipulation; user-select: auto; box-sizing: border-box;" target="_blank">Nur Kardelen Ay</a>The intersection &nbsp;points of sexuality and technology offers a new, unfamiliar and intense experience for all of us. It seems that we will be able to leave our human partners behind with sex robots or live our repressed identity freely with virtual reality. But in a future corrupted by concepts such as consent construction and hypersexualism, the blurring of boundaries with technology raises ethical questions. Could the disappearance of boundaries that prevent us from behaving as we wish create a negative revolution in the future in human relations?As a young woman in her mid-20s and socially active, I am intimately experiencing much of what we talk about today in terms of gender inequality. After finishing Sex And The City for I don't know how many times and then watching the sequel series And Just Like That, I realized once again that the cultural output of the media aspect of sex is quite powerful. From mythology to bedtime stories, the tendencies and objectification encoded in our genes form the basis of the cultural output of the female phenomenon today. And in a rapidly changing future, the culture we build together will be the sum total of all the content we are exposed to. Years from now, this article may be written by another woman in her 20s or Kardelen in her 50s. But the main theme never changes, it only changes shape. In the following parts of the article, we will often touch upon the places where sexuality and technology touch each other and their possible effects on our real lives.<h3 fr-original-style="" style="margin: 0px; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.85); font-weight: 500; padding: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;">The female image from mythology to Hollywood</h3>I think we encounter the commercial dimension of pornography mainly in the TV series and movie industry. The recent hit series Euphoria has garnered a enormous audience since its release. The apparent differences between the two seasons of the series, in which actors in their 20s play characters who are high school kids, reaffirm our thesis that sex sells. The point I am trying to draw attention to here is not the use of sex as a commercial value, but how high school-age characters present themselves, how they are evaluated by adults, and how they normalize hypersexualization among themselves. Violent and deviant adolescent sexuality makes it inevitable for young girls in search of an identity to resort to one of the easiest ways to express themselves: body exposure. It is worth mentioning that even though the series set out to criticize how young and adult women are sexualized in the eyes of men, it positioned in a place that very prone to deviate from its line with what it expresses to its audience.<img src="https://images.aposto.com/2022/5/1/1655114528234.jpeg" style="display: block; vertical-align: top; margin: 5px auto; text-align: center; width: 100%; max-width: 550px; border-style: none; position: relative; cursor: pointer; padding: 0px 1px; box-sizing: border-box;" width="550" ratio="1.69" fr-original-style="display: block; vertical-align: top; margin: 5px auto; text-align: center; width: 100%; max-width: 550px;" fr-original-class="fr-draggable"> Sexualizing young girls is a phenomenon that appeals entirely to capitalism and the commercial aspect of sex. Without having to go to TV series or movies, we can also look at the comments made to celebrities on social media. Take Millie Bobby Brown and Billie Eilish, who struggle with two different ends of sexualization in Gen-Z. While Millie is criticized for looking older than her age with her makeup and clothes, the same arrows point to Billie for hiding her body and choosing a masculine dress. Both are getting to the same point: Hypersexualization is an output of capitalism, and commodifying your body for fame is a permissible means to end.<img src="https://images.aposto.com/2022/5/1/1655115097501.png" style="display: block; vertical-align: top; margin: 5px auto; text-align: center; width: 100%; max-width: 550px; border-style: none; position: relative; cursor: pointer; padding: 0px 1px; box-sizing: border-box;" width="550" ratio="1.78" fr-original-style="display: block; vertical-align: top; margin: 5px auto; text-align: center; width: 100%; max-width: 550px;" fr-original-class="fr-draggable">Rachel Hills explains that sexual freedom is not only about women being free to live their sexual lives without being judged or condemned but also about being able to safely refuse sex when they don't want to. The concept of 'sexual freedom' is the strongest argument that can made against most of the above and given Hills' plausible explanation, it is inevitable that young girls will use the concept of freedom as a cover for a predatory and imposing understanding.<img src="https://images.aposto.com/2022/5/1/1655116056727.jpeg" style="display: block; vertical-align: top; margin: 5px auto; text-align: center; width: 100%; max-width: 550px; border-style: none; position: relative; cursor: pointer; padding: 0px 1px; box-sizing: border-box;" width="550" ratio="1.41" fr-original-style="display: block; vertical-align: top; margin: 5px auto; text-align: center; width: 100%; max-width: 550px;" fr-original-class="fr-draggable">Of course, the desire the control women is not an idea that has suddenly emerged in recent years. I remember the mythologically based book Circe where it was repeatedly emphasized that the character of Circe, with her independent and rebellious attitude, freckles, and honey-colored eyes, was never preferred by men. Or the ruthless Medusa turning men to stone was portrayed not as an act of defiance of patriarchy but as a monstrous and dangerous form of female aggression. The real danger is that in a world of increased accessibility and no boundaries, the perception of unconstrained sexualization can lead to identity confusion for a much broader age range. Moreover, the fact that the possibilities offered by today's technology in the pornography industry are seen as moves that protect women does not help to improve our perception of sexualization at all.<h3 fr-original-style="" style="margin: 0px; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.85); font-weight: 500; padding: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;">Sex robots: Sexual consent and capitalism</h3>Are sex robots a new chapter in sexuality or an escape from human relationships?One of the biggest proofs that sex sells is the millions of people eagerly awaiting a future in which sex robots become commonplace. Devalued as an innocent alternative for loners and a puzzle piece for fantasies, sex robots actually serve a more general purpose. The idea of sex without a 'human' in it distances a large community from its human values and brings it closer to the ideal of commercial and illegal sex. However, there are always values and boundaries that should not be ignored in a bilateral relationship, whether human or robot.<img src="https://images.aposto.com/2022/5/1/1655117876818.jpeg" style="display: block; vertical-align: top; margin: 5px auto; text-align: center; width: 100%; max-width: 550px; border-style: none; position: relative; cursor: pointer; padding: 0px 1px; box-sizing: border-box;" width="550" ratio="1.91" fr-original-style="display: block; vertical-align: top; margin: 5px auto; text-align: center; width: 100%; max-width: 550px;" fr-original-class="fr-draggable"><blockquote fr-original-style="color: rgb(9, 9, 9); border-color: rgb(38, 34, 84); border-width: 4px; font-style: italic; padding-left: 10px;" style="color: rgb(9, 9, 9); border-color: rgb(38, 34, 84); border-width: 4px; font-style: italic; padding-left: 10px; margin: 0px 0px 1em; border-left-style: solid; box-sizing: border-box;">Every action that human beings take on another human being is a choice and is political.</blockquote>- Kathleen Richardson, professor of Ethics and Culture of Robots and Artificial Intelligence at De Montfort University, who started an activism movement against sex robotsThe political nature of sex has been naturalized over the years and people have made their choices according to the boundaries of legal or illegal. Today, the only thing that limits most people in terms of what is normal and what is abuse is the legal order. Sex robots, which are claimed to be widespread to protect women and <a fr-original-style="" href="https://www.gelecekburada.net/turkiyenin-cocuk-gelin-ve-cocuk-pornosu-rakamlari/" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: rgb(9, 9, 9); text-decoration: none; background-color: transparent; outline: none; cursor: pointer; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; touch-action: manipulation; user-select: auto; box-sizing: border-box;" target="_blank">children</a>, actually pave the way for sexual violence and consent, regardless of the limitations of the law.<blockquote fr-original-style="color: rgb(9, 9, 9); border-color: rgb(38, 34, 84); border-width: 4px; font-style: italic; padding-left: 10px;" style="color: rgb(9, 9, 9); border-color: rgb(38, 34, 84); border-width: 4px; font-style: italic; padding-left: 10px; margin: 0px 0px 1em; border-left-style: solid; box-sizing: border-box;">Sex robots can be seen as girlfriends, as normal relationships, as future wives. This can unite many men on a sexist point. Because for them, they have sexist prejudices that they can bring to the forefront when they are having a hard time in everyday life or when they are rejected by a woman. A woman may not want sex at that time, or she may not see this man as the best partner in the world, but instead of thinking about these different possibilities, men immediately give in to sexist thought patterns of "Oh, this woman doesn't like me".</blockquote>- Kathleen RichardsonIt is of course not our intention to make positive discrimination or to label one gender as completely bad. Similar situations can happen on the men's side as well. But the stark difference, and the fact that the commercial market for men is much larger and more widespread when it comes to the human body, highlights the sensitivity of the gender gap.&nbsp;<h3 fr-original-style="" style="margin: 0px; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.85); font-weight: 500; padding: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;">Female journalist who pretended to be 13 and was harassed in the Metaverse</h3>Take a journalist's experiment as another example of technology influencing the commercial aspects of sex. A 43-year-old female journalist, working on the effects on children of an alternative virtual universe that will replace the real world as Web3 becomes widespread, impersonated a 13-year-old girl and started visiting virtual reality rooms. First of all, when she checked 13, the youngest age that can be selected on the platform, and created a profile, she realized that she did not encounter any authentication. This meant that anyone on the platform could lie about their basic characteristics such as gender and age.Visiting rooms where avatars performed virtual sex simulations, the journalist witnessed a 13-year-old girl being shown sex toys and condoms by a large number of profiles identifying themselves as adult men. She also reported that consent construction, which has real-life counterparts and serious consequences, is also widely practiced in the metaverse, where she faced sexual material, racial slurs, and threats of rape.The corrupt environment created by virtual platforms and their reckless policies creates the perfect dystopia for the manipulation of children in search of identity and acceptance from society. The cultural outputs we have mentioned so far, which have been built since the dawn of humanity, can turn the cultural direction of the future into a so different dimension with unlimited access and the possibility of hiding oneself behind avatars. It is necessary that technology companies learn from the mistakes of the first generation of the Internet, or even Web3 in its new form, and adopt a more protective and stringent security policy for healthy societies.<h3 fr-original-style="" style="margin: 0px; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.85); font-weight: 500; padding: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;">Avatar Fetish and Metaverse Fantasy&nbsp;</h3>In a world without borders, what is to stop us from stepping outside the norm?&nbsp;In an age where every level of sexuality deserves respect and is accepted as long as it does not cross ethical boundaries, we will normalize the touch of technology. It is of great importance for the ideal of a healthy society that the new sexual identity, which is connected to technology and even has a conceptual equivalent as cybersexual, develops in an environment free from stigmatization and prejudice. But what needs to be considered and thought about is how partnerlessness or a sense of boundarylessness will change vital aspects such as our attitude of consent towards our human partners.<img src="https://images.aposto.com/2022/5/1/1655119166544.jpeg" style="display: block; vertical-align: top; margin: 5px auto; text-align: center; width: 100%; max-width: 550px; border-style: none; position: relative; cursor: pointer; padding: 0px 1px; box-sizing: border-box;" width="550" ratio="2.01" fr-original-style="display: block; vertical-align: top; margin: 5px auto; text-align: center; width: 100%; max-width: 550px;" fr-original-class="fr-draggable">We have been experiencing the intersection of sexuality and technology in our lives for many years, even if we are not aware of it. Today, photo or messaging apps play an important role in our relationships with our partners. While the first wave of technology affected sexuality in terms of partner communication, the second wave, which we can include the latest developments, comes with a different dimension. The new dimension of sexuality, which we can define as partnerlessness, allows us to have an intense experience with what technology brings.<img src="https://images.aposto.com/2022/5/1/1655121324366.png" style="display: block; vertical-align: top; margin: 5px auto; text-align: center; width: 100%; max-width: 550px; border-style: none; position: relative; cursor: pointer; padding: 0px 1px; box-sizing: border-box;" width="550" ratio="1.78" fr-original-style="display: block; vertical-align: top; margin: 5px auto; text-align: center; width: 100%; max-width: 550px;" fr-original-class="fr-draggable">Holding a mirror to a dystopian future, Black Mirror's Striking Vipers and USS Callister episodes offered glimpses of how the limitless world offered by technologies such as virtual reality can cut us off from real life. In both episodes, the characters experienced an existential dilemma between the real and the virtual. Was what was real the life they physically existed in, or the life they wanted to live according to their own rules and tastes? There is not yet a virtual reality application that can mimic physical perceptions, but that doesn't mean it won't happen soon. However, these two episodes dealing with themes of sexuality and violence in VR give us a lot to think about in the context of what we have been talking about since the beginning of this article.Especially when we consider the increasing cases of sexual abuse in Turkey, it makes us think that a future where borders can be removed is only an option for healthy people. Even so, the fact that it is accessible to everyone is the most annoying part. Of course, we will embrace both cybersexuals and sex robots within the right boundaries, but this requires a future where we reach the ideal of the society.

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