CurrentTV's Ben Hoffman takes a comprehensive look at various nifty apps you can use to look at scantily-clad women, arouse yourself through a magical tone, or turn your iPhone into a (moderately-effective) vibrator. Because if technology can't be used for fapping, it isn't any good.

· iPhone Sex Apps (current.com)

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Previously: Taking A Penetrating Look At 3-D Porn

This year's edition (theme: "Of Intercourse and Intracourse") promises to be just as exciting as the past two installments; with both io9's Annalee Newitz and Fleshbot alumna Violet Blue on the roster of speakers, we're sure attendees will receive quite a bit of food for thought (and, er, fantasy). Full details are available on the Arse Elektronika website. And for those of you who can't make it out to San Francisco this weekend, never fear: we're sure we'll have more than a few highlights from the event covered right here on good ol' Fleshbot.

· Arse Elektronika (monochrom.at)

Will we still be boning when we're all plugged in to computers, Matrix-style, experiencing the world in a virtual way? Will our robot avatars be bumping uglies? And what about porn? H+ Magazine has assembled some of the leading minds in the radical tech community to get their thoughts on the issue. A few selections below:

Conventional sex will likely persist in a transhumanist future, but only as a small subset of a much larger space of pleasurable activities which have been deliberately engineered. The connection between certain activities and the sensation of pleasure lies entirely in our cognitive architecture, which we
will eventually manipulate at will. It's probably less complex than we think - many drugs can directly stimulate the pleasure center, and these are much simpler than brain-to-computer interfaces. - Michael Anissimov

Anything that has persisted for hundreds of millions of years clearly has high survival value. Transhumanism seeks to enhance the positive aspects of the human condition, so love and sex are unlikely to be abandoned. Differences? Yes. Sex for procreation will be separated from sex for pleasure. Polyamorism will be the norm. After all if "I" have uploaded, duplicated myself and exist as self-similar copies in cyberspaces co-existent with realspace, where does the "self" end and the "other" begin? - Extropia DaSilva

The experience of gaining pleasure via in some sense merging with another being... that will probably survive the Singularity, but will likely be customizable into various forms, which may end up bearing little resemblance to "sex" as we know it today... - Ben Goertzel.

The primary purpose of the Singularity will be seen, after the fact, to be Awesome Sex. There will be exponentially more sex, with exponentially more interfaces, and with exponentially more measures of pleasure. - Alex Lightman

Exosex, sex outside the biological body, would be simulated in virtuality, much like Second Life or Skype and other digital formats where sex is enhanced, extended, digitized, and synthetic. It would be more real than real - a hyper-real experience.

Endosex, sex within the body or form, would exist even if the posthuman is so-called disembodied or, better, a distributed collection of selves (multiselves) co-existing on multiple platforms, including biological personas, virtual avatar personas or other types of forms in different substrates and platforms. - Natasha Vita-More

So there you have it: sex will maybe, probably, definitely still exist; and will be exactly like nothing we've ever experienced before. Also, we'll be doing it all the time, with everyone. So, uh, win?

For the full article, check out h+'s digitial edition (link below).

· h+ Magazine Fall 2009 Digital Edition (hplusmagazine.com)
· Thumbnail star: Futuristic Sasha Grey (hustlercash.com)

· 3D Porn (current.com)

And if, perchance, the thought of 3-D cam shows makes you more queasy than curious, never fear: Jess does plenty of hot porn in regular 2-D, too. The third dimension stuff is just an added bonus.

· Undress Jess (undressjess.com)

Indeed, if David Levy's right about all of us eventually shacking up with our robot friends, then this video could, in fact, be a preview of the future of strip clubs. Personally, we prefer exotic dancers of the flesh and blood type, but these robot performers do have their charms.

·http://www.gileswalker.org/gileswalker.org/ROBOTS/Pages/pole_dancers.html#0">Pole Dancers (gileswalker.org, via fluffylychees.blogspot.com)

· ディスカバリーチャンネル 苫米地英人 (youtube.com, via BoingBoing

When will we be getting it on with supersonic fuckbots? Or having orgasms at the press of a button? Or doing it... in space? Our friend Violet Blue knows—and she was more than happy to go on TV and tell all to the viewers of "Attack of the Show."

Now if we can just figure out how to be a beta tester for that orgasm button...

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· future sex on Attack of the Show (tinynibbles.com)
· Thumbnail star: Pussean princess Alexia Milano (galacticgirls.com)

This past weekend, the History Channel took the time to investigate this pressing concern, exploring the ins and outs (teehee!) of sex in space. Turns out, sex in space is a lot more complicated (and less sexy) than it is on earth. Maybe it's for the best that Virgin Galactic scuttled that plan for space porn.

· Sex In Space (history.com)

· Rubbot.com: The Male Sex Toy (rubbot.com, via slashdong.org)