Lovemaking in the Post-Revolution Era - Speculation on how universal access to physical beauty might change us
Actually written AUGUST 2, 1999 (SUSPECTED)
Some will seek changes on a level deeper than mere health and wealth. Some will seek fulfillment in the world of the spirit; though that quest lies beyond the scope of crude material technology, new physical possibilities will provide new starting points and time enough to try. The technology underlying cell repair systems will allow people to change their bodies in ways that range from the trivial to the amazing to bizarre. Such changes have few obvious limits. Some people may shed human form as a caterpillar transforms itself to take to the air; others may bring plain humanity to a new perfection. Some people will simply cure their warts, ignore the new butterflies, and go fishing.
(K. Eric Drexler, Engines of Creation, the Coming Era of Nanotechnology, P234)
Soon after the final phase of the [super-nano-technology-trans-humanist] revolution, when one’s body could be changed at will, lovemaking had become a new frontier of possibilities.
People experimented with multiple sets of genitals and so on.
But there was one peculiar practice which tended to surprise many folk, initially.
While love and sexual attraction would spark widely via the new, beautiful bodies; people occasionally wanted to revert to their older, uglier bodies for lovemaking. They found that much of their spiritual identity was still bound up in the experiences unique to their old bodies, and that no lovemaking could be complete without experiencing it through their old bodies as well. It soon became obvious that we all had two (or more) bodies through which we wanted to fully experience the world and each other.
Soon the old bodies would be seen in public just as frequently as the new. In this respect, bodies were like clothing choices. But there was more to it than just fashion. It had to do with bringing up the “old wounds” for true healing.
Now people could wear their ugly bodies and still be treated as a potential sexual/romantic opportunity by beautiful people. One may be pursued sexually no matter how ugly one happened to be at the moment because everyone knew that even the ugly could “put on” a super gorgeous body in the bedroom. People wearing their new, beautiful bodies would readily pursue people wearing their old, ugly bodies.
But it soon became common knowledge that no matter one’s initial attraction for another’s beautiful body, one would eventually want to make love with the ugly body as well. It was part of the more general desire to love the whole person. And this desire was reciprocal. One also wanted to receive love in both bodies, and from both bodies of one’s lover.
This did not, however, apply to those born after the revolution. Their identities were bound in the experience of only beautiful bodies.
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