SIMSEX is a sex simulator that can be programmed to offer any sort of virtual sexual experience with the touch of a screen. Recently, a scandal erupted when anonymized customer data indicated that around 10 percent of women who use SIMSEX selected “rape.” Some said the data proves that many women really do want to be raped. Others claimed that it doesn’t, because rape is by definition non-consensual and therefore can’t be “chosen.” “This is not about sex,” one prominent public intellectual was quoted as saying, “but about ontology.” A spokesperson for SIMSEX disagreed. “I don’t even know what that means,” he said. “But I do know what women want, and that’s a choice.”
Niko Osobito is a writer who moves between Ithaca and New York City.
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