ABSTRACT
The relationship between technology and sexuality is a symbiotic one. As humankind creates new inventions, people find ways of eroticizing new technology. Today, sex shops sell sex toys for all sorts of sex acts, but in fact, virtually anything can be a turn-on to someone. Once, lacking a real dildo, my partner and I dug out a frozen carrot from the refrigerator, thawed it under running water, and tried, rather unsuccessfuly to use it as an organic replacement. The role sex plays in human endeavor is an area always worth exploring, and despite the contemporary focus on matters sexual, one could argue that society has paid attention to sex throughout recorded history. Tierney even argues that the erotic technological impulse dates back at least to some of the earliest works of art, the so-called Venus figurines of women with exaggerated breasts and buttocks, which were made by firing clay 27,000 years ago—15 millenniums before ceramics technology was used for anything utilitarian like pots. 1
