Virtual Reality Erotica: Exploring General Presence, Sexual Presence, Sexual Arousal, and Sexual Desire in Women

Virtual Reality Pornography: a Review of Health-Related Opportunities and Challenges

“…This will affect the way we give meanings and values to love and sex in general Marcotte et al [ 37 ] Empirical quantitative Survey of 8004 American adults, mean age 44.05, 47.8% male, 51.2% female, 1% other People with mental health struggles may be drawn to interactive, digital forms of sexual behaviour as a means of alleviating symptoms through distraction or self-soothing People with higher anxiety and depression were more likely to engage in sextech. However, those who were lonelier were less likely to engage with sextech, suggesting the aforementioned patterns were not due to lack of social connection McArthur and Twist [ 47 ] Review Review article of issues associated with emerging sexual technologies A framework for understanding the nature of digisexuality and how to approach it is imperative for clinicians and researchers Many practitioners are unfamiliar with new technologies like teledildonics, as well as the social, legal, and ethical implications of this technology Milani et al [ 24 •] Empirical quantitative 38 female subjects in a repeated measures design, recruited via university mailing list in Canada VR can induce feelings of sexual presence and presence more generally With medium to large effects, general presence, sexual presence, and sexual arousal were significantly higher for VR videos relative to 2D videos Orel [ 44 ] Review Critical review and exploration of the potential of VR pornography VR pornography has the potential to reshape sexual desire The affordances of VR pornography allow creators to create a new reality, which will allow for new expressions of desire and sexual activity Rubin [ 27 ] Review Review of VR as a technological medium VR pornography may increase empathy with performers and transform viewer-performer relationship Capacity of VR for immersion and presence will transform the relationship between the VR consumer and performer into an empathetic, intimate one Simon and Greitemeyer [ 22 •] Empirical quantitative 60 male participants in a repeated measures design in Austria, recruited via university mailing list VR technology was found as...…”

“…Two studies used samples limited to men [ 22 •, 23 ••]. One study had an exclusively female sample [ 24 •]. The remainder of the empirical studies had male, female, and other gendered participants.…”

“…Research on arousal specifically focusing on women has also been conducted [ 24 •]. The research used high quality, women-centred erotica and examined whether stimulus modality (VR vs. 2D) and point of view (POV: first-person vs. third person) impacted women’s feelings of sexual presence (activation of sexual response induced by the perception of being present), sexual arousal, and sexual desire (dyadic and solitary).…”

Female sexual response to audiovisual stimuli in 2D/3D modality and first/third person perspective stance

“…Despite the widespread popularity of 3D porn, only four studies employing experimental design to study its impact on sexual response were published [5][6][7][8]. Most of them explored the feeling of (sexual) presence and subjective sexual arousal.…”

Effects of virtual reality erotica on ejaculate quality of sperm donors: a balanced and randomized controlled cross-over within-subjects trial

“…Men and women are increasingly engaging in emerging forms of sexual technology [ 20 ]. As a natural consequence, VR has found an application in erotica and studies have showed that VR induces higher degrees of sexual arousal than traditional two-dimensional erotica [ 21 , 22 ]. Additionally, VR for the presentation of pornography made male participants feel elevated on multiple parameters compared to the two-dimensional control [ 23 ].…”