Supporters of virtual sex claim that the availability of virtual sex will "eliminate prostitution and will allow safe sex" (31). With virtual sex, human interaction would not be necessary; thus, the threat of sexually transmitted disease will decline dramatically. The appearance of virtual sex will "open [a] new frankness in society about sexual matters" where "physicians would be less conservative about sex" (29). Due to the impersonal nature of virtual sex, instructions in sex and sexual problems and their treatment will be addressed more openly. This area of virtual sex brings two opposing moral ideas to clash: the traditional and the liberal. The openness about a "taboo" topic violates the conservist views of keeping sexual matters personal, but with virtual sex, intercourse becomes impersonal-again modeling the problems encountered in both the medical and industrial applications. Returning to Zhai's scenario of virtual sex, he speculates that procreation via virtual reality would be possible. This seemingly impossible task can be achieved by the real time dynamic process of virtual sex and the physical hardware apparatus used in correlation with the virtual software. The sperm can be packaged, put on ice, and sent to the woman. The woman then places the sperm into the male-like apparatus and can be impregnated the next time intercourse is performed (Zhai 46). Assuming that procreation is possible in virtual sex, all sorts of human morals and ethics would be violated in similar ways as the issues of surrogate mothers or sperm banks. Conceiving a child "virtually" without a partner brings an impersonal light upon the issues of relationships and marriage, adding further chaos in a topic that is already surrounded by controversy. With no moral or ethical obligations, "for the crowd, sex will be out of context of a relationship and in the context of meeting needs and using people" (McRary M1). The more impersonal the world gets, the mo...
