Calico Rudasil is a feature columnist for Sssh.com, the award-winning porn site for women & couples. With over 16 years’ experience under her belt, writing about and for the adult entertainment industry, Calico qualifies as something of a Web Porn Dinosaur; similar to a tyrannosaurus, only with far more attractive arms and a less pronounced overbite.
Virtual Reality Porn Could Be A Game-Changer
Doubtlessly, a lot of people will consume VR porn the same way they currently do ‘traditional’ two-dimensional porn: Alone, on their couch, with an ample supply of tissue nearby. Support for functionality like remote-control of physical stimulus (something which has been in use by ‘teledildonics’ enthusiasts for some time now) and two-way, real-time communication open things up significantly, however, giving people on opposite sides of the planet a means to be intimate with each which goes well beyond phone sex.
This is why I’m so disappointed to hear the Oculus Rift store content will disallow pornographic apps and content – not so much because it deprives porn entrepreneurs an outlet to make money, but because it probably will also have the effect of denying Oculus users entertaining and useful “sexual communication” tools developed by the aforementioned porn entrepreneurs.
It’s not hard for me to picture, for example, a VR porn company developing an app for simultaneous use by cam girls and their remotely-located customers using an Oculus Rift-optimized virtual environment as a medium in which to interact – something which could also be adopted by, say, a soldier stationed overseas and his wife back at home.
But VR Porn Can’t Change A Game It Isn’t Allowed To Play
Sure, just like with Android devices, it sounds like Oculus intends to allow third-party developers to create porn-related apps, they just won’t be allowed to distribute them through the official Oculus app store.
This may not sound like a big deal, but if you’re an Android user, ask yourself this question: How often have you used a third-party app store? How about another question: How much do you trust third-party stores compared to the official on-deck app store?
Yeah; that’s what I thought.
In the grand scheme of things, denying VR porn developers access to the official Oculus app store is not exactly a show-stopping big deal – nor is it “censorship” as some will no doubt argue. Oculus Rift (and more to the point, its owner/overlord Facebook) has a First Amendment right of its own to not distribute porn, just as Google and Apple did with their official stores.
Wait, Though: Isn’t Oculus Rift An ‘Open Platform’?
What differentiates Oculus is just last month, its founder gave people reason to believe its app store might be an exception to the basically universal “no porn” rule among on-deck app stores.
“The rift is an open platform,” Oculus founder Palmer Lucky told an audience at the Silicon Valley Virtual Reality Conference in San Jose. “We don’t control what software can run on it, and that’s a big deal.”
I’m not sure whether Lucky simply hadn’t been handed the content policy memo, if he was speaking out of turn, or if he was getting a little cute with us. After all, since the Oculus will be able to use apps from third party developers sold through independent app stores, it’s technically true porn isn’t ‘banned’ from the device, even in light of the official store’s policy, and it’s still an “open platform” by virtue of not being completely locked down to apps not distributed through the official store.
Still, not allowing such apps to be sold through the official store is to honor only the letter of what Lucky said, however, not its spirit.
If there was any doubt about the content policy in light of what Lucky said last month, a Facebook rep erased such doubt in an email to FastCompany.com: “Oculus only distributes developer content that meets their terms of service, which forbids pornographic content from being a part of the Oculus Store.”
(Virtual) Love Will Find A Way
Having said all of the above, if there’s one thing working in the adult entertainment industry for almost 20 years has taught me, it’s woe betide those who would stand between porn fans and their smut. Put up a content filter, they find a way around it, make it too expensive, they’ll pirate and share it like it’s their goal in life to murder your bottom line – and if you close it out of your walled tech garden, porn fans will find a way to crack the sucker and load it up with buttfucking videos, your garden be damned.
It’s just that it would be nice, for once, if a tech company would look around at the online world they help to create and realize the people who populate it, by and large, don’t want walls – they just want to be the one who decides how and where their world is divided.
Someday, one of these massive tech companies is going to get a wild hair up its ass and offer a truly open platform for its apps, one in which the issue is the quality, safety and security of the app, not the nature of its content. If they’re smart, what they will do is include adult content in a section which can be easily and permanently disabled on the consumer end, allowing more sensitive consumers to completely avoid any exposure to adult materials, if such is their preference.
When this happens, the intrepid tech company which makes the move is going to be rewarded with extra business – because however much business they might lose from obsessive “family values” types, I firmly believe there are many, many more people in the world today who want adult content than those who can’t abide by its mere presence in some invisible corner of a store they just happen to frequent.
Maybe I’m right, maybe I’m wrong; hopefully, someday, we’ll all find out.
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