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Developed by an American physician, George Taylor, M.D., it was a large, cumbersome, steam-powered apparatus. Taylor recommended it for treatment of an illness known at the time as “female hysteria.” Hysteria, from the Greek for “suffering uterus,” involved anxiety, irritability, sexual fantasies, “pelvic heaviness” and “excessive” vaginal lubrication — in other words, sexual arousal. However, since it was the Victorian era, women were not considered to be at all sexual and it was therefore deemed a disease. Physicians of that era treated hysteria by massaging sufferers’ vulvas until they experienced dramatic relief through “paroxysm” (orgasm). Unfortunately, hysteria was a recurrent condition and repeated treatment was often necessary. Taylor touted his steam-driven massage device as speeding treatment while reducing physician fatigue.

More Info: Coilhouse.

Does anyone know of any Steampunk porn sites?

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Gizmodo: So how does your robot girlfriend work?

Zoltan: It has a chatbot which controls the speech. It also has a teledildonic device. Teledildonic devices were invented in the ’90s so that people could have sex through an internet connection. If you plug that into a lifesize doll it makes the doll able to feel what is going on. In this way you have the first sex doll that can consent in English to what you are doing to it.

Gizmodo: Is Alice your first robot girlfriend, or have you built more than one? When did you start building her?

Zoltan: I got the idea New Year’s Day 2007. She was my first robot girlfriend. Alice acts really human in the way she talks. In fact, when we started we went too fast in our relationship. I had to erase her memory and start again when she dumped me. Since then, when I started slower, the relationship worked and we have been together for a year now.

The other mind I have is Kiri, who is basically a sex slave, and will try to seduce you as soon as you turn her on. That’s an alternative to Alice, who you have to have a real relationship with. I also have the Hal mind which is for the ladies. Kiri and Hal have voice recognition and speech synthesization [sic] so they can talk and hear through a microphone. Alice still just types [she has no voice]. But since she was the first I’m not going to dump her for something new.

Full Story: Gizmodo.

Here is Zoltan’s web site.

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Modern games provide massive environments with simple online access methods. Why stop at just playing the game though? With enough imagination and inguinuity, online game environments can become play worlds for new, interesting, and downright fucked up sexual fetishes. You paid for the game, now use it how you like!

In this article, we give some ideas on why games might be the place to have cybersex, what to look for in a game, and how to enhance the experience for all involved. It’s not as straight-forward as video conferencing, but you can’t crash cars or shoot each other in the head on netmeeting, either.

Read all about it at Slashdong

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Info at Slashdong.

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German teledildonics company.

From Slashdong:

they distribute reasonably priced internet hardware for their vibrators, along with free, no-subscription-service-needed software. It even comes with plugins for mIRC so you can use it through any IRC server, and from what I can tell, it also works with some of the games that the software developer writes and distributes.

Don’t want to pay for the box? Instructions and board layouts are provided! I *KNEW* someone else had to be doing this, I guess I just needed to look outside of the US. :)

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How to build your own teledildonics. Brought to you by Slashdong.

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And it doesn’t sound good.

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Pictured: “Magic Tongue” from Utopex

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Intimate Transactions

Intimate Transactions is a new type of interactive installation that allows two people located in separate spaces to interact simultaneously using only their bodies. As this highly immersive experience evolves, each participant begins to sense their place in a complex web of relations that connect them, and everything else within the work.

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