As someone who is studying cybersecurity and who enjoys technology, I have noticed the rise of technosexuality from software apps to the evolution of more realistic looking sex dolls with artificial intelligence. While each of these offer interesting topics as they relate to developing technology, the connection between technosexuality is of interest in a society that is increasingly becoming more single. There are some concerns that relationship professionals have presented about these increasingly human looking robots, but these same professionals also recognize some of the positive aspects that these dolls can give to people who are lonely and socially isolated. Technosexuality provides singles with an option to have an artificially intelligent robot that they can interact with on multiple levels. Sex tech is on the rise and this is an introduction for singles about sex tech.
The Technosexual Era And The Rise Of Technosexuality: An Introduction
Who is a technosexual and what is technosexuality? A technosexual is usually defined as someone who loves technology over an actual romantic human relationship. The term technosexual is often used to insult someone who enjoys technology, but does not have a romantic partner. Technosexuality, or robosexuality, combines “techno” and “sexuality” denoting a sexual attraction to technology. People who are technosexual are commonly stereotyped are being unattractive, socially unintelligent, and lonely men by society. This stereotype demeans an individual because they really enjoy technology and like to talk about on a level that society believes is only reserved for talking about love, romance, and sex. The stigma attached to technosexuals is similar to those that society places on singles. Both technosexuals and singles do not fit a culture where one must be in a romantic relationship or married to be fully accepted by society in order to fit in.
However, sex technology comes in many different types that can used by both men and women. This breaks down the stereotype that society has constructed that single lonely men are the main users of sex technology. There are many more specialized sex technology devices that are aimed at women. These different devices come in a range of technology from hardware, software, virtual reality, and artificial intelligence to meet the preferences of the user.
The many types of technology components from hardware to hardware to artificial intelligence allows the user to customize the type of experience that they want with their sex tech. The software variety are often apps that help the user to find a friend or a sexual partner such as Tinder, Android After Dark, or MiKandi to only name a few popular mobile applications. In terms of hardware, these are amped up smart version of vibrators and dildos. These virtual reality devices typically combine hardware with software to create a virtual reality experience for the user of their choice. Finally, there is artificial intelligence, that is a machine that is able to learn the preferences of the user or have setting that have realistic reactions to a sexual encounter. The two main examples of the artificial intelligence — which combines hardware, software, virtual reality, and artificial intelligence – are VR Tenga and RealDoll.
Technosexuality presents a range of concerns as well as positive attributes to the human sexual experience according to some relationship experts. The concerns tend to enter the dystopian science fiction realm that humans will become attracted to these robots and humanity will end. However, these relationship experts also recognize that sex tech can make sex more interesting between couples or allow individuals who are single, and maybe lonely, to have an artificially intelligent robot that they can talk to or have a range of relations with to form a human-robot connection. This human-robot relationship has opened up interesting questions that will be explored in the context of singles in this series on technosexulity by Secure Single.
Views expressed in this article are the author’s opinions and do not necessarily reflect the views of Secure Single. It is intended for informational and educational purposes only. It is not investment or financial advice. James Bollen is the author of Thriving Solo: How to Flourish and Live Your Perfect Life (Without A Soulmate). Now available in paperback and for the Kindle on Amazon. Subscribe to Secure Single’s Substack for free!
In the last 50 years, the number of women entering the workforce in the United States has significantly increased. Career focused women today are far more independent today than they have ever been. The number of women holding off on starting families and putting their college and career first is a remarkably positive trend. For women, growing financially secure and independent is proving more lucrative and more opportune for all single women.
Historical events in the US provided the perfect opportunities for women to join the workforce. The events leading up to the change can be known as the tipping point:
The Feminist Movement: the 1960’s push for equal rights and liberation for women.
Government Legislation Passed: The Equal Pay Act of 1963 and the Civil Rights Act of 1964 legally paved the way for equal pay in the workforce.
World War II: Men leaving the US left many jobs unfilled, leaving the country with labor shortages. As a marketing campaign to entice women to fill in the labor force, Rosie the Riveter was created and proved a success in getting women to join the workforce.
Women Accessing Higher Education: positive trend of women earning degrees has grown from 1250, 796 degrees in 1949, to over 1,849,200 degrees in 2008. Women now have more access to higher education than ever.
The traditional housewife role was not the only one available when the economy started to shift in the favor of women. Due to the changes occurring, women began to experience more economic freedom than ever. By entering the workforce, women can now support themselves. In the last 50 years, more women in the United States have the option to choose between starting a family or trailblazing down a hot career path. Recent studies find that more women are choosing career.
Know the Facts:
Nearly 47% of the current US workforce is comprised of women, according to a study by the Department of Labor.
The number of female owned businesses increased by 26.8% between 2007 and 2012.
30% of women owned US businesses attract just 5% of the nation’s equity capital.
4% of CEO Positions at S&P 500 companies are held by women.
Also, a recent report from the Institute of Women’s Policy Research (IWPR) found that 29%+ women own small businesses, a spike growth of 26% from 1997.
There is so much progress happening since the early 1900’s. Women in the current era have so much opportunity in the to make an impact in the workforce. Strangely enough, there is an inverse correlation between women in the workforce, and the percentage of people who are married in the US.
A study through summarized marriage data from 1960’s up through 2010. The study found a trending decline of people who get married across the board. The study found that in 1960, 72% of all adults ages 18 and older were married, and that today just 51% are married. The study projects adults who are currently married will drop to below half within a few years, that’s just roughly 25% of people being married. The study found that the more educated a person is, the more likely they are to get married later in life or not get married at all. People are waiting until later in life to get married, if at all.
Summary
For single women, take the opportunity to make the most of your education and career. It is, after all, part of the trend.
Views expressed in this article are the author’s opinions and do not necessarily reflect the views of Secure Single. It is intended for informational and educational purposes only. It is not investment or financial advice. James Bollen is the author of Thriving Solo: How to Flourish and Live Your Perfect Life (Without A Soulmate). Now available in paperback and for the Kindle on Amazon. Subscribe to Secure Single’s Substack for free!
Stereotypes are an “unfair and untrue belief that many people have about all people or things with a particular characteristic.” There are many false stereotypes about singles that is perpetuated by society and popular culture about single men and single women. Unmarried and Single Americans should work to change the negative stereotypes of single people by informing the culture and people when an opportunity presents itself.
Society stigmatizes and stereotypes singles that single women as being either sluts or whores. For women, being called a slut or a whore portrays that a woman dresses sexy in order to get with anyone she can only for the purpose of sex. The insult is then taken a step further when single women are called whores. This implies that single women can be bought off to perform sexual acts because they are not married or in a romantic relationship. These derogative terms used to describe single women, or women in general, should not be socially acceptable to call anyone but it is socially acceptable to call women a “slut” or “whore.” Each individual woman has different values and lives a unique life so society and people making broad generalization about why a woman may be single is offensive. Men are called other interesting things by society.
Society stigmatizes and stereotypes single men are being either criminals, perfectionists, lazy, or gay. These stereotypes reduce men across a perplexing range of characteristics from being an offender of some kind (possibly even a pedophile), too busy to date, too lazy to date, or that a man must only be physically and sexually attracted to women. Like single women, single men have reasons or circumstances for why they may be temporarily or permanently single but society stereotypes them for their single status.
As a single man who has never truly dated anyone, I have experienced many of the stereotypes and stigmas myself from a variety of people. I have been told that I should be careful as I get older to not interact with children and people who are underage because I am not married since parents may get the wrong idea about me. Also, once when a woman thought I was flirting with her at a bar. The woman came over and asked if I was texting my girlfriend, but once she learned that I was single and did not have a girlfriend she began to interrogate me. She proceeded to go through the several sexual orientations from asking if I was gay to if I was asexual since it was apparently odd that I was not dating and enjoyed being single. Needless to say, it is no one’s business to question singles why they are not dating and why they are single although it is socially acceptable to do so.
It is socially acceptable in modern society to critically stereotype and stigmatize the unmarried and singles and to grill them on the spot for reasons why they do not have a girlfriend or boyfriend. Society needs to stop encouraging people to act this way around single people. These stereotypes negatively reduce single women and single men to a damaging characteristic that society does not support and places it on singles. Society should stop single shaming and recognize the numerous reasons why someone may be single.