It would be trivially easy to reward current video game players with porn at the completion of a level. Of course, that wouldn't too accurately resemble the seduction game(although, in past times, fighting and killing other males as occurs in video games might have been a good and common way to obtain sex.) I'd bet that most video game players would still stick to getting porn without a challenge given such a choice.David Quinn wrote:Indeed. As any experienced seducer will tell us, the chase is the main game and the biggest thrill of sex. The actual physical act at the end is almost an anti-climax, a ritual that has to be got through. The woman has already submitted, the game has already been won.
It will be interesting to see if technology can offer the same kind of thrill. I suppose it could one day - e.g. devising difficult games with exotic rewards for advanced users.
But I wonder if the desire for seduction would continue to exist when people have instant access to ultra-realistic simulated sex(featuring perfectly customized, disease-free, pregnancy incapable, unwaveringly faithful, unearthly attractive and talented partners.) I think this desire for seduction might be partly masochistic conditioning - built up by years of difficulty in attaining sex. If a person entering puberty never had to even try or risk anything for perfect sex, they might not develop this rather self-harming desire to put themselves through risky time and energy consuming trials to gain sex.
Then there is the question of even how innate or natural seduction is in the first place. In many cultures and times the current mating and wooing rituals that comprise seduction were completely unknown.
Perhaps we can look back through the history of technology and find some comparisons. Were people raving about how water could never taste so sweet if they didn't have to trek ten kilometres to the well and back for it? Now water is instantly on tap for a lot of people but very few are trying to recreate the old well situation.
I tend to see progress as about attaining goals and then moving onto bigger challenges. If and when perfect simulated sex arrives, I think it might be that I'd consider the goal/issue of sex to be conquered/fixed/attained and move on to other bigger, newer, more challenging and exciting things, like exploring and colonizing space. Sex would still be on tap in my spaceship though.
