# Your word for the day: Teledildonics **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [May 20, 2008, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-word-for-the-day-teledildonics/450014 "2008-05-20T20:11:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Frylock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ce7236/32.png) [@Frylock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frylock)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2008, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-word-for-the-day-teledildonics/450014/1 "2008-05-20T20:11:46Z")
> **[Teledildonics](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teledildonics)** > > Teledildonics (also known as cyberdildonics) is the name coined for virtual sex encounters using networked, electronic sex toys to mimic and extend human sexual interaction. The term became known after technology critic and writer Howard Rheingold used it in his 1991 book Virtual Reality. In the publication, Rheingold made futuristic conclusions and summaries surrounding technology and used the term 'teledildonics' to refer to remote sexual activity using technology. Nowadays, the term is Teled... Would you believe I discovered this word in a Philosophical work? Well I did. -FrL- ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2008, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-word-for-the-day-teledildonics/450014/2 "2008-05-20T20:23:11Z")
Oh, that’s freaky. The first - no, only - time I ever encountered that word was in Intro to Sociology in college, maybe seven years ago. And the only time I’ve ever had a chance to work the bizarre idea into a conversation was only a few weeks ago, so it’s fresh in my mind. Even on the Dope, I didn’t expect this to come up. So to speak. ---
**Author:** ![Silver\_Tyger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/fbc32d/32.png) [@Silver\_Tyger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silver_Tyger)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2008, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-word-for-the-day-teledildonics/450014/3 "2008-05-20T20:56:45Z")
Well, it’s exactly what it sounds like, innit? Sheesh. ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2008, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-word-for-the-day-teledildonics/450014/4 "2008-05-20T21:06:57Z")
[QUOTE=Marley23] And the only time I’ve ever had a chance to work the bizarre idea into a conversation was only a few weeks ago, so it’s fresh in my mind. [/QUOTE] Cool, a new word. Let’s see if I can use it in a sentence. “So, Bob, have you heard of this freaky thing called teledildonics?” ---
**Author:** ![Autolycus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/22d042/32.png) [@Autolycus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Autolycus)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2008, 11:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-word-for-the-day-teledildonics/450014/5 "2008-05-20T23:27:35Z")
> [@the linked article](#): > > Visualisations of this hypothetical technology invariably featured an image of an attractive woman engulfed in a rubber suit equipped with sensors and built-in, remotely-operated dildos, suggesting an inspiration derived more from rubber fetishism and/or medical fetishism than a desire to meet widespread demand. mmmm… rubber fetish. ---
**Author:** ![Bosstone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/22d042/32.png) [@Bosstone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosstone)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2008, 11:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-word-for-the-day-teledildonics/450014/6 "2008-05-20T23:36:36Z")
First thing I thought of when I saw the sentence “Teledildonics are electronic sex toys that can be controlled by a computer” was some freaky modification of [this USB toy](http://www.thinkgeek.com/geektoys/warfare/8bc4/). ---
**Author:** ![ultrafilter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/3d9bf3/32.png) [@ultrafilter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ultrafilter)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2008, 3:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-word-for-the-day-teledildonics/450014/7 "2008-05-21T03:43:39Z")
[QUOTE=Frylock] Would you believe I discovered this word in a Philosophical work? Well I did. [/QUOTE] Don’t hold back on us. What’s at the forefront of the philosophy of sex toys? ---
**Author:** ![Zoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/a4c791/32.png) [@Zoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zoe)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2008, 6:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-word-for-the-day-teledildonics/450014/8 "2008-05-21T06:12:47Z")
I can’t wait for this to surface in the courses for retired folks at Vanderbilt – just in time for the Boomers. 2008: The Summer of Teledildonic Love? ---
**Author:** ![Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tapioca_Dextrin)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2008, 6:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-word-for-the-day-teledildonics/450014/9 "2008-05-21T06:37:34Z")
For once in my life, I’m ahead of the curve. I came across the term (complete with a flip book) in the very early nineties. Go Me 😃 ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2008, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-word-for-the-day-teledildonics/450014/10 "2008-05-21T20:53:49Z")
[QUOTE=tdn] Cool, a new word. Let’s see if I can use it in a sentence. “So, Bob, have you heard of this freaky thing called teledildonics?” [/QUOTE] Based on the bestselling book by L. Rod Chubbard. ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2008, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-word-for-the-day-teledildonics/450014/11 "2008-05-21T21:22:54Z")
Wasn’t the idea and the word (though not the rubber suits) invented in the early seventies by Ted Nelson? ---
**Author:** ![AskNott](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asknott/32/5790_2.png) [@AskNott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AskNott)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2008, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-word-for-the-day-teledildonics/450014/12 "2008-05-21T21:37:26Z")
I don’t know how long ago, but I told a lot of people several years back about a woman who set her pager on vibrate, wrapped it in a condom, and wore it internally. Then she went bar-hopping, giving out her pager number to every cute guy she found. Wooo! She had Woo! a very enter Woo! taining evening. Wooo! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Roland\_Orzabal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c2a13f/32.png) [@Roland\_Orzabal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roland_Orzabal)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2008, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-word-for-the-day-teledildonics/450014/13 "2008-05-21T21:40:40Z")
All we need now is for some bright young scientist/entrepreneur to create the field of televagonics, and the term “cybersex” will take on a whole new meaning. ---
**Author:** ![HazelNutCoffee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/ac91a4/32.png) [@HazelNutCoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HazelNutCoffee)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2008, 10:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-word-for-the-day-teledildonics/450014/14 "2008-05-21T22:05:39Z")
[QUOTE=AskNott] I don’t know how long ago, but I told a lot of people several years back about a woman who set her pager on vibrate, wrapped it in a condom, and wore it internally. Then she went bar-hopping, giving out her pager number to every cute guy she found. Wooo! She had Woo! a very enter Woo! taining evening. Wooo! 😃 [/QUOTE] [Lo, how technology has evolved.](http://www.thetoy.us/)