Tuesday, July 16, 2013

DL - Porn 2.0

So it had been a long time since I'd seen or heard from DL, but he wound up back in Melbourne maybe a year or so back and we've caught up a couple of times since. Turns out that he's been working on the writing in the intervening years, and this is the one he picked to send me to read: "A novella about social media, technology and the end of sex". Pretty enjoyable, and what the description says - an imagining of a future where rampant sexualisation (and its dissemination via the internet and social media) has resulted in a generation with no interest in sex and which in fact reacts with revulsion to people who would today be considered beautiful.