爱思英语编者按：关于未来性行为，下面有5个脑洞大开的想法。

Imagine this future scenario: You get home from a late night at the office. You feel like having sex. But your boyfriend is out traveling. Back in 2015, you would perhaps turn on Skype to see each other and have some fun there, but on this future evening you can actually touch your boyfriend with the help of technology. He may be on the other side of the world, but he feels your touch.
想象一下这样的场景：你加完班回家后想have sex，但男朋友去出差了。在2015年，你可能会打开微信/Skype等等，玩会儿视频聊天。但随着科技越来越发达，你以后将能直接触摸自己男朋友——即使他在千里之外也感觉得到。

And if you don’t have a boyfriend, that’s no problem. With this technology, you can have sex with a virtual partner on the Internet and feel as if she or he is real. Or you can have your very own sex bot lying at home under the covers.
没男朋友？也没关系。同样的技术能让你和网络上的虚拟性伴侣做爱，感觉就像和真人一样。

Here are five naughty ideas of the future of sex:
下面是关于未来性行为的5个脑洞大开的想法：

1. TELEDILDONICS AND THE VIRTUAL SENSE OF TOUCH
远程性爱和虚拟触觉

Haptic technology—or haptics or kinesthetic communication—is tactile feedback technology, which recreates the sense of touch. An object (for example a T-shirt) is equipped with sensors that make it possible for the user to feel things physically although they’re communicated virtually. It has been used extensively in medicine, as technology allows doctors to perform remote surgery, but it has also been used for military training and space exploration. And of course, sex is the next area in which the technology is gaining ground.
触觉反馈（haptic technology,或者叫运动知觉交流）是一种能重现触感的技术。嵌入了传感器的物件（比如T恤）能让人在虚拟交流时产生真实的触感。这项技术在医学上应用广泛，能让医生远程做手术。它还被应用在军事训练和太空探索中。它下一个进军的领域就是性。

Products like Hug Shirt, which enables you to feel an embrace from a distance, or the Kiss Transmitter, show that sensory technology is well on its way into our sex lives, although still at a level that brings an uncertain smile to most people’s face. At the forefront of this technology, we see electronic toys that can be controlled by or via a computer, also known as teledildonics or cyberdildonics. We are gradually witnessing the beginning of these "remote sex technologies," with products such as Mojowijo, which lets you control your partner's dildo with a remote control, and Lovepalz, which is an interactive sex toy you can play with alone or online on a "cyber-enjoyment platform." It's even mainstream: Condom manufacturer Durex recently launched Fundawear, which is the world's first wearable technology that enables us to transfer personal touch from a smartphone app to a partner's underwear.
能让人远距离拥抱的拥抱衫（Hug Shirt）和传吻器（the Kiss Transmitter）这样的产品已经问世。这说明传感器技术正在进入我们的性生活，虽然大多数人都还保持怀疑态度。目前最先进的产品是计算机操控的电动玩具，也叫远程性爱或者网络性爱。我们正在见证这些“远程性爱技术”的到来。已经成型的产品有Mojowijo（能远程控制性伴侣的假阳具）和Lovepalz（一种互动型的性玩具，可以一个人玩，也可以在“网络享受平台”上玩）等。这种技术已开始向主流渗透。避孕套制造商杜蕾斯近期新推出了名为Fundawear的内衣，能将触感从手机应用传输到性伴侣的内衣，这在全世界还是首例。

2. DIY 3-D-PRINTED GENITALS AND SEX TOYS
自制3D打印性器官和性爱玩具

Easy access to affordable 3-D printers has sparked a boom in demand for personal sex toys that can be ordered online or printed at home, and a large number of startups and companies are stepping up to meet the demand. Take the New York Toy Collective, which now offers what they call the "most personal and customized gift ever." It is a copy of your private parts, which are made with advanced 3-D modeling, 3-D printing, and molding in sterilizable and flesh-like silicone. Maybe an idea for next year's Valentine's gift (or not).
随着3D打印机走进千家万户，人们对定制性爱玩具的需求猛增。现在既可以在网上订购，也可以在家打印。更有许多企业已经开始大展拳脚，例如，New York Toy Collective已经推出了所谓的“最量身定制的个性化礼物”——生殖器的复制品，用高级3D建模和3D打印制造，材料是可消毒的硅胶，摸起来很像人体。可以考虑在明年情人节的时候送一个出去——呃，三思而后行吧。

3. VIRTUAL REALITY AND INTERACTIVE PORN
虚拟现实和互动型爱情动作片

The website Red Light Center, a multiplayer virtual reality platform like Second Life and World of Warcraft but about sex and virtual prostitution, has about 2 million users. The platform also has its own currency, Rays, which you can use to buy various services such as interactive pornography in CamGirl Alley, clothes, shoes, and virtual real estate. If you can’t persuade another player to have sex with your avatar, you can also buy sex. The website also hosts about 100 virtual weddings a month, and there are wedding planners, DJs, after-parties—a whole wedding economy. Users earn thousands of dollars a month by making the virtual wedding dress designs and planning the weddings.
Red Light Center网站是一个多用户的虚拟现实平台，和第二人生（Second Life）、魔兽世界（World of Warcraft）相似，但它的主题是性爱和虚拟卖淫，拥有200万用户。这个平台有专属的货币，叫做Rays，可以用来买各种各样的服务，例如去CamGirl Alley买互动爱情动作片，买衣服鞋子，还可以买虚拟的房产。如果你没办法让另一位玩家和你的化身做爱，你还可以花钱买性爱。这个网站每个月举行100次左右的婚礼，还有婚庆公司、DJ、派对……一整条婚礼经济产业链都有。有些用户帮别人设计虚拟婚纱，筹备婚礼，每个月能挣好几千美元。

It might not sound appealing to you, but the fact is that sites like Red Light Center continue to grow. In Japan, the company Tenga developed a product that combines an erotic video game, a Fleshlight-like contraption, and Oculus Rift to create an augmented reality sex toy. I imagine that we will eventually be able to live out our wildest and kinkiest fantasies with Tenga: If you've ever dreamed of having sex with Gaston from Beauty and the Beast or one of the blue guys from Avatar, then your dreams just might come true.
这对你来说可能没什么吸引力，但事实上，像Red Light Center这样的网站一直在壮大规模。日本公司Tenga用色情电子游戏、假阴道和Oculus Rift虚拟现实头盔组合成了一款增强现实性爱玩具。我觉得，Tenga的这款产品最终会让我们实现自己最疯狂最荒诞的梦想：如果你想和《美女与野兽》中的反派加斯顿做爱，或者想和《阿凡达》里的蓝色人种啪啪啪，你的梦想也许就会成真。

4. DIGITAL LOVERS
虚拟恋人

Some people might think that a preference for the virtual world rather than the real world is absurd, but in the Japanese city of Atami, men go on vacation with their virtual video lovers via the dating simulation game LovePlus+. This is a new spin on the Tamagotchi craze, which you may remember from the 1990s, when children worldwide cared for a virtual pet living on a small plastic gadget, and the purpose was to inspire a true emotional connection. The 2014 Oscar-winning film Her explored the future of digital relationships. The film, set in the future, tells the story of a deep relationship—including wild sex—between a man and his virtual love, Samantha, who is the operating system on his computer. It may sound sci-fi-ish, but if you have an iPhone, you might already have sensed the rough edges of a relationship with a virtual creature like Apple's intelligent personal assistant Siri, which despite its (her?) current flaws, is constantly undergoing development and seeing significant improvements each year.
有些人对虚拟世界的热爱已经超越了现实世界。人们可能会觉得这个想法很荒谬，但在日本热海市,男性会和自己在模拟约会游戏LovePlus+中的虚拟情人度假。这和当年的“电子鸡”热潮很相似。你也许会记得，在上世纪90年代，全世界的小孩都在饲养活在塑料壳里的宠物，目的是为了激发孩子真实的情感交流。在2014年夺得了奥斯卡的电影《她》（Her）探索了人机相恋的未来。这部电影的场景设定在未来，讲述的是一个男人和他的虚拟情人萨曼莎（Samantha）之间的爱情故事（还有狂野的性爱）——萨曼莎是他的电脑操作系统。这听起来很科幻，但如果你有iPhone，你也可能对虚拟生物（如苹果的智能个人助手Siri）产生情愫。虽然它（还是她？他？）现在还有很多缺点，但正在不断发展，每年都会有很大的进步。

5. ROBOT SEX AND THE SEX DOLL ROXXXY
和机器人做爱与性爱娃娃Roxxxy

And then there's sex with robots, or sex bots, as they are called. The inflatable Lolita doll is out, while the sex bot Roxxxy is in.
还有一个想法就是和所谓的“性爱机器人”做爱。充气娃娃已经过时了，取而代之的是性爱机器人Roxxxy。

Roxxxy is the world's first sex robot, and costs between $7,000 and $9,000. Roxxxy comes with preprogrammed personalities—shy, outgoing, and experienced—and you can also set her to different moods like tired or horny. Roxxxy also has a male counterpoint—named Rocky—should you be interested.
Roxxxy是世界上首款性爱机器人，售价在7000到9000美元之间。Roxxxy有多种预设的人格（腼腆、外向、老练等），还有多种心情（累了、性饥渴等）。对了，Roxxxy还有一个男性版本，叫Rocky。

A future where people spend their lives connected to a machine, living their lives on the Internet, and having any physical desire fulfilled with a variety of tools, instruments, and sex robots might not sound very appealing. But the technology is here, and we're just seeing the beginning of it.
在未来，人们会将自己的生活和机器连接到一起，在网络上过日子，并用各种各样的工具满足自己身体的欲望。性爱机器人听起来也许不怎么吸引人，但这项技术已经到来，我们仅仅是看到了它的开端。