People Are Having Sex With 3D Avatars of Their Exes and Celebrities

This Vice article by Samantha Cole details a troubling trend in the world of sex tech. Find an excerpt below, then the full piece here:

“You can buy a belly button online. It can be an innie, outtie, twisted to the left or the right, and placed on a virtual body. You can also buy a variety of penises, pubic hair, breasts, and tongues, all of which can be tweaked to look however you want. Cobble these together, use a photograph to algorithmically generate a person’s face, and you might be able to make a 3D avatar of someone who is walking around in real life. Import them into another program, and you can have sex with them in virtual reality, without that person ever giving consent.”