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I was recently rereading Ghost in the Shell and it was great to re-encounter the scene where the Major is having hot lesbian sex with the help of AR applications.
Nope, sorry, full VR. Definitly. After all, when Bateau gets that call through (by forcing himself not to get lost by punching out one of his cybereyes) she sits up, disoriented, in a room with the other two girls (clothed) wired to some sort of console beside her. So, yeah, definitly full VR.
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Unless something happens to bring about a new puritanism in the West (and the US is far more puritan than most of Europe) I don't see anything other than a progression toward an "Everything is Permitted" culture, and it's consistent with the Shadowrun material.
1) No offense to Americans, but HELL YEAH IT IS.
2) That's what the Sprawl Survival Guide said in it's sex chapter. Excluded are forced sex, sex with those unable to consent (minors, mentally impaired, coma patients), and other-sentient-species-sex is the currrent hot button issue, if I remember correctly.
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So perhaps in 2070, ugliness is seen as something of a sin, when there's so much cheap, easy, safe, and socially acceptable cosmetic surgery for sale at the local mall.
I'd rather go with Neuromancer there. More precisely, with Ratz, the chatsubo barkeep, whose uglyness in a world of readily available beauty is his trademark. It makes you different, stick out, interesting. Sure, in some circles, it might be a sin, but in others, especially subcultures that fashion themselves mandatory, it might be a sin to be pretty.
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Also reminds me of a page in Transmetropolitan. A guy has just gotten a new penis, and the fact that they were made in a sweatshop by underage workers doesn't bother him in the least. It's just like his old penis, but has a minidisc player.
One of the first things I thought of when reading through arsenal, too.
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Or a mage with a rating 1 sustaining focus (or quickening) walking around with a force 1 orgasm spell on themselves.
He'd die of high blood pressure fairly soon. It'd burst his heart. An orgasm is rather stressful to the body (hence all these old men dying of sex after taking viagra, while their bodies aren't fit enough to handle the stress anymore). Plus, I bet it would be HIGHLY disorienting.
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I'm sure with the vampires and ghouls wandering about that necropheliacs are pretty happy too, the only thing they have to worry about is not catching HMHVV.
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You know they are going to be huge in the goth set, though... How many of the ones who are REALLY into it are going to turn down sex with an actual vampire?
Too bad you guys don't have access to the second Germany Sourcebook, really. In the Leipzig chapter (which seemingly is the centerpoint of european Goth culture), this is covered extensively. Also sexual magic rituals performed by european witches.
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Also, one no-one has mentioned. The RAS Override. Restrainers, blindfolds and classic cuffs are pretty standard sexual practices these days. Now imagine if your girlfriend's RAS over-ride is at your mental command. They're not just restrained, they can not move a muscle. They can't scream. They can't do a thing. They can still feel though. Now imagine the abuses. Imagine the cover-ups after sexcapades go wrong, and there's no safe-word anymore.
Yeap, this form of sex slavery has been around in the SR world for some time (I believe it was introduced with the Underworld book).
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You think a supplementary sexual organ is depraved? Think of the gengineers who dabble in a bit of "erotic art" for the original gene-work pieces. Something that is all orifices for you and your buddies to come over and enjoy comes to mind.
Nice idea, but only a very, very niche product, with the high availability of complex biosculpting and it's equally high illegality. Quite likely something Tamanous does on the sidelines.
And Rape beetles are very old, too. Sure, now you get it live. But that's hardly a new idea either.