In collaboration with our sister site MEL Magazine, this week, both MEL and Futurism will be bringing you stories from both publications about the highs and pleasures and edges (or edging) of tomorrow, today. This week, we’re pleased to bring you a different version of Futurism, containing stories from the horizon of hedonism: Welcome to The Science of Pleasure. But sometimes, it’s just because we’re horny.
Necessity isn’t always the mother of invention. And surely you can recognize that those peddling erotica have always been pushing the fringes of technology forward, from the printing press to home video, web forums, DVDs, high-definition streaming, and VR - more often than not, porn has gotten there first.įorget the ancient Sumerian who invented the wheel, or Ben Franklin’s key-tied kite - because for all of humanity’s legendary technological pioneers, innovators and inventors, there have always been those undersung geniuses, those pleasure-hungry sensualists, libertines, and thrill-seekers at-large answering the call from humanity (to say nothing of their own base desires) to feel higher and hotter, to go faster, to make it last longer and get it harder, stronger, sooner, and simply more, and more, and more. Unlike Jonas Salk, Peter Dunn and Albert Wood didn’t invent a vaccine - but they did invent Viagra. But the 19th century British physician who invented the vibrator belongs just as much in the pantheon of great inventors as any, so influential remains his work to the lives of ordinary humans. It is a period of time between the past and the future, and can vary in meaning from being an instant to a day or longer. Mortimer Granville isn’t a name that goes with Alexander Graham Bell or Philo Farnsworth. The present (or here and now) is the time that is associated with the events perceived directly and in the first time, not as a recollection (perceived more than once) or a speculation (predicted, hypothesis, uncertain).