''Hug me till you drug me, honey;
Kiss me till I’m in a coma;
Hug me, honey, snuggly bunny;
Love’s as good as soma."
“Switch Bitch” by Roald Dahl
It was in Neuromancer that she told the story of her prostitution days, and what went wrong.
But the House of Blue Lights was also mentioned in the Gibson short story Burning Chrome, which is set before the events in Neuromancer.
To nitpick, IIRC, the Orgasmatron was the name of the device in Woody Allen’s movie Sleeper (which I don’t think has been mentioned yet in this thread). I don’t recall what the device was called in Barbarella, if anything. One reviewer called it “a real sex organ” (since it looks kinda like an organ).
Gibson’s Neuromancer - she relates waking up in the middle of what was essentially a snuff scene where the client had her killing another girl with her razornails. Molly also appears in Johnny Mnemonic IIRC.
Nope, I can attest it’s in Flash, not Flesh, as I’ve never seen the latter, and I reacall it. Weird light from a jewelled ring, I recall…
You forgot the single most-mentioned fucknology in the series; neural implants that can be used to postpone orgasm for as long as you want.
BTW, in case anybody was confused the movie with Mimi Rogers and Rutger Hauer is Wedlock, not Deadlock. “Deadlocked” is the title of the 1995 sequel, but neither Hauer nor Rogers feature in it.
In Gun, with occasional music by Jonathan Lethem, the main character (a private detective) has had his nerve-endings rewired so that. although he still has male genitalia, he experiences sex as his wife would and vice versa (then his wife leaves him and he’s stuck that way). They also have animals that have been modified so that they are similar to humans, but sex with them is taboo and only mentioned in passing.
In The Larry Niven ‘Known Space’ series, there’s the tasp, which is like wireheading, except that it acts remotely on a person’s pleasure centres and can be used to enslave them.
OH MY GAWD!..after I read this 80+ page “scene”, I became convinced that Terry Goodkind is a total bottom. I swear, if the first book had not contained this amazing and kinky twist, I don’t think I would have read the rest. He never did manage to do as well, IMHO.
And don’t forget the ‘Tasp’ which does much the same thing at a distance in the same series. Some folks like to shoot folks at the park with it for fun, IIRC.
And I failed to see Mangetout’s post how, exactly?
I’m not sure, but I’d like to add that we mustn’t forget the “tasp” from Niven’s posts, which provided for remote stimulation of the pleasure centers and could be used to enslave those who find pleasure pleasurable.
Most everything I read by Farmer involved one sexual fetish after another. He’s second only to Piers Anthony as far as wringing the most sex out of SF.
Try finding Dare.
There’s also the renowned erotica-SF series The Journal Entries by Elf Sternberg. (Warning, NSFW, nor for anyone not willing to read bisexual erotica.) In a nutshell, a genetic engineer goes down on Gaia and in return is granted the ability to create an entire planet full of furry fetish races to have sex with. (That description really does it an injustice, even though it’s technically true.)
Frank Herbert explored sex a little in the Dosadi Experiment, where two characters telepathically link while making love.
Also, in Hellstrom’s Hive, where the hive uses, erm… just the essential parts of reproduction… and also breeds an assassin whose pheromones make men exhaust themselves in bed with her… fatally.
And also mentions Tleilaxu (sp?) genetic engineered sex workers in Dune.
Hm… I’m sure I’ll recall more, later…
Like the “pleasure model” replicants in Blade Runner/DADOES?
I was thinkig of a human/android sex scene in the first of Piers Anthony’s Apprentice Adept series (between Stile and Sheen), but I’m pretty sure that’s not what you’re looking for.
However - Dean Koontz’s book Demon Seed uses technology for kinky purposes. It’s a typically bad Koontz book, and it’s been reissued in the last couple years to be more “contemporary” - but it’s still pretty bad. I believe it was made into a movie a number of years ago as well - starring Julie Christie, if memory serves. ANYhow - the lady has a plug-in device that seems to be a precursor to VR technology, and she uses it to get her jollies. Then, I think it becomes possessed or something and it’s all downhill from there.
Well, I have Anthony’s Pornucopia which is the least erotic erotic book I’ve ever read. Farmer is much better (IMO, of course.)
Arthur C. Clarke (of all people) has one - Patent Pending in Tales from the White Hart. This is about a machine which can record sensations, specifically sex. It was published originally in 1954.
*Mindbridge–*another by Haldeman.
“The Barbie Murders” in Varley’s *Picnic on Nearside–*the characters are altered to be genderless, but put on fake pubic hair etc. Now that’s kinky.