Wake up sheeple! It’s time to unplug your mind from the matrix…as well as your dick! Virtual reality porn is nothing more than a tool that Mark Zuckeberg intends to use to control the masses with, as well as add to his billions through all your VR Bangers subscriptions! When you are deep inside Alex Coal or Rika Fane in VR, you might already feel that you never want to take off your headset again. But this is just the beginning. No less than the creator of the Oculus (Meta) Quest himself has stated his desire to develop nerve implants that will plug your senses directly into immersive experiences such as ‘Anal Secrets With Vanessa Sky’.
Well, surprise surprise, this is not my opinion, but that of conservative ‘investigative’ journalist Seamus Bruner, and put forth in his new book entitled – ‘Controligarchs: Exposing the Billionaire Class, Their Secret Deals, and the Globalist Plot to Dominate Your Life‘. From the snippets I’ve seen, his arguments seem pretty thin and outdated, with most of the facts presented – including a rise in VR bangers subscriptions during the pandemic – coming from at least several years back when it did look like adult VR was about to take over the porn world, and with a whole new level of immersive addictiveness. I first became aware of the book in a sensationalist article at right-wing media site Breitbart that ‘revealed’ Zuckerberg’s ‘Brave New World of VR Porn‘.
“More and more people are turning to VR porn during self-isolation for comfort from depression, anxiety, and frustration,” Business Insider reported. New York City health officials even encouraged self-stimulation as a way to stop the spread of COVID, declaring that “you are your safest sex partner.”
VR porn startup called VR Bangers saw 30 percent growth in sales. Its CEO Daniel Abramovich attributed the surge to the fact that “people are going crazy at home.” VR Bangers touts Meta’s Oculus headset compatibility and offers how-to guides for getting started on Zuckerberg’s preferred VR platform.
Controligarchs reveals that the creator of the Oculus VR headset (no longer with Meta) aims to “make VR porn better with nerve implants.” Apple (with its Vision Pro headset) and Microsoft (with its Hololens headset) are seeking to join Meta in race to create VR products that consumers love. Neither company has advertised any plans to bring VR porn to its platform but at least one top level Microsoft executive appears to be a fan.
Microsoft’s virtual reality chief, Alex Kipman, shocked his coworkers when he reportedly watched VR porn in front of subordinates.
The article gave me a laugh with its apparently wild-eyed conspiracy theory take. But perhaps its not so easy to dismiss, or at least dismiss the potential impact. The author Seamus Bruner has previously penned one bestselling book that both garnered lavish praise from Donald Trump, as well as sparking FBI investigations into the Clintons and the Bidens. Controligarchs looks set to follow that success, and has already been picked up by many Conservative media outlets, including or as well as the Daily Mail and even Yahoo Finance. With all the moral panics building over AI porn and AI girlfriends, the last thing immersive xxx lovers need is for VR porn to be added to the fire.
The book appears to make use of one study to strengthen its case – a 2019 paper that appeared in the ‘Computers In Human Behavior’ journal, and which compared the impact of VR porn with 2D porn as regards sexual arousal and presence. Unsurprisingly, it found that VR porn was indeed found by viewers (at least male viewers) to be a more arousing experience, and which inducing a greater feeling of ‘presence’, than regular 2D porn. However, the authors of the study in the abstract summary make clear :
the immersive capabilities of technology are not the only, and likely not the strongest, predictor of sexual arousal, perhaps tempering concerns that VR could greatly exacerbate compulsive pornography consumption.
A year later, a German study explored the same question in a paper entitled ‘VR Porn as “Empathy Machine”‘. Rather than simply interviewing the participants after viewing the adult content, the researchers in this case objectively measured their exhibited degree of eye-contact, as well as their oxytocin levels.
In the VR condition, participants felt more desired, more flirted with, more looked into the eyes. They were also more likely to feel connected with the actors and more likely to feel the urge to interact with them. Interestingly, saliva levels of oxytocin were related to the perceived eye-contact with the virtual persons indicating a role for the social neuropeptide in the perception of increased intimacy and interaction in VR. Thus, VR pornography seems to be a powerful tool to elicit the illusion of intimate sexual experiences.
Rather than simply ‘objectifying’ the actresses whilst mindlessly flicking through porn tube videos and fapping, in VR porn the actress comes alive, and is a real human being that the viewer feels empathy for, and is interacting with, rather than simply masturbating to with the ‘male gaze’. This German study appears to have been ignored by the author of Controligarchs.
It is very noticeable that VR porn contains far less rough sex, BDSM, or hardcore scenes than regular 2D porn. While some VR porn fans complain about this, it appears they are in a small minority. Perhaps it’s due in part to the difficulty in filming ‘extreme’ action in virtual reality. But I suspect it is more likely that the vast majority of men just find that a turn-off in the very real intimacy of the VR porn experience, and that it’s easier to be aroused by such content when you are detached from the action as you are with 2D porn tube clips. Given that we are constantly being told by anti-porn campaigners that tube porn is normalizing extreme sexual behavior and practices such as choking in young people, perhaps they should be encouraging the adoption of VR porn. That is, if they are actually interested in the values they preach, rather than simply acting from a prudish or a religious motivation.
