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Get ready for the Sexapocalypse – some say it’s already here


Annalee Newitz
Annalee Newitz
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Posted: Feb 16, 2012

We are living through the golden years of apocalyptic storytelling, and nothing is immune from dystopia fever - even sex.

In fact, the sexapocalypse has been with us since at least the days of Hieronymous Bosch, a 15th century Dutch painter famous for depicting the end of days in vast canvasses packed with tiny figures enjoying bizarre sexual scenarios. More recently, novels like The Handmaids Tale and comic Y the Last Man suggest that horrific gender scenarios will play a major role in our dark future.

But is the sexapocalypse really something to fear? Or could it actually usher in a new era without the old sexual hangups and oppression that many of us struggle with today? We asked a group of brave scientists and science fiction writers what they think the coming sexapocalypse will bring.


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Annalee Newitz is an American journalist who covers the cultural impact of science and technology. She is the editor-in-chief of io9, which named in 2010 as one of the top 30 science blogs by The Times. Her work has been published in Popular Science, Wired, Salon.com, New Scientist, San Francisco Chronicle, Washington Post, and AlterNet, and she is a regular lecturer at colleges and conferences.
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This is truly nit-picking, but want to write it anyway:
since we know humans have always been the way they are, we apply our
modern/postmodern/post-postmodern view on the past. The Bosch painting above concerns sexuality in a tertiary sense; first it is (no surprise re the era it was painted in) about religion. Next comes Bosch’s stylistic expressions, plus referring to other artists of the period. Number three concerns sexuality.
Let’s not think Bosch was some kind of an artistic Hugh Hefner. The nude paintings of the distant past (just for instance the countless Venus-Aphrodite canvasses) were more about artists using hues, brushstrokes, etc., than sexuality.





... look carefully at all the figures in the thumb (the same painting) below, esp. the figure lying on the ground being studied by a deer, the canvas is far more about death than sexuality; and of course it is.. way back when, the connection between sex and death was more apparent—today it has been buried and sublimated:
http://www.ieet.org/images/uploads/6aca48e8b1bbd7bd98e177636c3823fc_thumb.jpg





Personally, I’m hopeful that the “sexapocalypse” will be more positive than negative. In fact, I’ve wondered what sex will mean when we can and do occupy multiple networked bodies at the same time—something that I think is coming. What gender will be when one is male in one place, a female in another, and sexless in a third?

victor-storiguard.blogspot.com





“I’m hopeful that the ‘sexapocalypse’ will be more positive than negative.”

More positive than in the past, surely the distant past.
Look again at the Bosch painting: the subjects do not look happy-  going by their expressions, they appear as if they were attending funerals; they don’t seem like Hefner at his mansion.





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