Abstract
AbstractThis research explores multisensory sexual arousal in men and women, and how it can be implemented and shared between multiple individuals in Virtual Reality (VR). This is achieved through the stimulation of human senses with immersive technology including visual, olfactory, auditory, and haptic triggers. Participants are invited to VR to test various sensory triggers and assess them as sexually arousing or not. A literature review on VR experiments related to sexuality, the concepts of perception and multisensory experiments, and data collected from self-reports was used to conclude. The goal of this research is to establish that sexual arousal is a multisensory event that may or may not be linked to the presence or thought of the intended object of desire (sexual partner). By examining what stimulates arousal, we better understand the multisensory capacity of humans, leading not only to richer sexual experiences but also to the further development of wearable sextech products, soft robotics, and multisensory learning machines. This understanding helps with other research related to human-robot interaction, affection, detection, and transmission in both physical and virtual realities, and how VR technology can help to design a new generation of sex robots.
Highlights
Technology is exponentially pushing humans into new realms of existence
The aim of this article is to propose evidence for sexual arousal to be seen as a multisensory event through the use of Virtual Reality (VR) and examine how it can be shared between individuals in VR
Our study shows that the presence of the desired partner in virtual multisensory enviroment (VMSEs) can increase arousability level, as 54.5% of participants reported that the presence of their partner evoked higher arousal levels, as seen in Figure 14, and in the participant reports which determined “Void” to be the most arousing VMSE among the “Couple” group
Summary
Technology is exponentially pushing humans into new realms of existence. Hear, smell, touch, and taste paint the world that we experience. “The immediate objects of the perception of our senses are merely particular states induced in the nerves” [3]. It can be said that “the world” does not exist; rather, “the world” is a reflection of the sophisticated patterns of neural activity which is never the same. “Perception involves ‘symbolic’ representations, in which the state of the world is described using a limited set of abstract symbols” [4]. “Senses are capable of only limited perceptions when operating in isolation” [5]
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