Let me preface this with saying that I'm solely looking at the practicality of it. I'm not a chauvanist, sexist, or pervert (well, maybe I am just a touch of all three).
I'm talking virtual, 3-D harems with accompanying "pleasure suits" that respond to the virtual stimulus in very real feeling ways. Hundreds or thousand of girls, customizable personalities, programmable to your specifications, all saved to files that sit on your hard drive or you carry in your USB stick...hell, swap girls with your buddies.
Yes, yes, it's dirty. I know. But it stands to be the great liberator of men. Follow me on this one, you may not agree but I'm sure you'll come to see that what I'm saying has its merits.
The guys out there, you ever go to work angry when you got some that morning? I doubt it. And chances are if you wind up angry that day, it's because someone else made you that way...and in all likelihood they didn't get any that morning either.
While we like to look at ourselves as a civilized and progressed species, we still have an animalistic drive that pushes, pulls, and sometimes takes over. Any guy that ever woke up next to something he regrets knows exactly what I'm saying.
Simply put, we as men think better, feel better, and generally get more done when that drive has been sated. Unfortunately, we rarely satiate that drive when we want to...a lot of times it's on your partner's schedule. Even if she agrees to go for a romp in the hay when you ask, it's still her saying "ok"...so in those times it's still pretty much on her time. How often you go fighting her off cause you got a headache?
Sex is dirty. No one wants to talk about it. But we crave it. It's the one thing that we crave to the point of doing ridiculous things. You ever speed home from work during lunch for some afternoon delight? I bet you never did that kind of crazy speeding to put a fresh gallon of milk in the fridge cause you were out of it. There's a million different scenarios and I'm sure every dude has a few.
But Smut 2.0 changes that. Again, thousands of girls, you personalize, give them different characteristics, tweak them to your preference, make them a harem of your idealized fantasies...and like I said, pass a copy of the file to your friends and try their girls out. What dude wouldn't stand in line for that?
Here's the residuals: more general cheer and happiness...everybody's coming to work in a good mood. plus more productivity with better quality of work...you're not busy thinking about why you can't get any. You're thinking lofty thoughts, putting your mind to its all time best use. It'd end the war on terror; what jihadi is gonna suicide bomb for the promise of 96 virgins when he can get all that and more just with a username and password?
Here's the downside: real women, sorry. While I'm sure digital hunks would be offered, I don't know if that's going to satisfy. Women generally look for an emotional connection, feeling able to confide and trust someone, getting a sense of safety and security. Smut 2.0 may fall flat just like today's current smut doesn't do much for the general populace of ladies out there.
And I'm not saying men don't want or seek emotional connections. Just that the driving, pulling, incessant drive that men carry doesn't look for it. Men don't go to strip clubs or http://www.smuttygoodness.com for emotional connections. And if you think about it, the Internet got as big and as broad and as integrated as it did because it was the best fulfiller of this dirty, unspoken need. It wasn't so we could check our stock ratings in real time. It was so we could see nasty things...and after we finished and we felt more civilized THEN we went out and conquered getting stock prices listed and a gajillion other useful world changing applications.
Don't mean to offend anyone. Didn't address gay men because I don't honestly know how the typical sexual dynamic works in a gay relationship. It's just that I honestly see this as the thing that changes the world. We bring Smut 2.0 online, and later sure as heck we'll invent the faster than light drives, perpetual energy machines, and light sabers.