Slavoj iek - In the future well outsource sex. in: The Guardian.

February 14, 2013. (English).

Romance is maybe not yet totally dead, but its forthcoming death is signalled by
object-gadgets which promise to deliver excessive pleasure but which effectively
reproduce only the lack itself.
The latest fashion is the Stamina Training Unit, a counterpart to the vibrator: a
masturbatory device that resembles a battery-powered light (so we're not
embarrassed when carrying it around). You put the erect penis into the opening
at the top, push the button, and the object vibrates till satisfaction The
product is available in different colours, levels of tightness and forms (hairy or
without hair, etc) that imitate all three main openings for sexual penetration
(mouth, vagina, anus). What one buys here is the partial object (erogenous zone)
alone, deprived of the embarrassing additional burden of the entire person.
How are we to cope with this brave new world which undermines the basic
premises of our intimate life? The ultimate solution would be, of course, to push
a vibrator into the Stamina Training Unit, turn them both on and leave all the fun
to this ideal couple, with us, the two real human partners, sitting at a nearby
table, drinking tea and calmly enjoying the fact that, without great effort, we have
fulfilled our duty to enjoy.