I let myself be immersed in a deeply oceanic universe for several weeks, months, and I accepted to be passionate about an element that extends over 80% of the earth's surface. The result? Well, according to Smoos is was more than she ever could have hoped for: So to merge the real with their ocean-representation of it, Fache, in Paris, would monitor real-time nautical conditions and events and then transmit it as data to be received by Smoos, in Lyon, who was using a combination of a virtual reality helmet and an Internet-connected sex tech device. A bridge to the real world, the real oceanĪs Smoos explains, that while the results of her self-imposed conditioning were positive, as well as very pleasurable, she wasn’t actually interacting with the sea but rather an artificial construct of it.
Within it, Smoos also developed what she called a form of Pavlovian response to water, and the sea, by even further connecting her sexual arousal to it. The next step, to further amplify her immersion in aquatic sensuality and to block out any possible distractions, was to use a sensory isolation chamber. I made the ocean my number one fantasy partner, by including it in my solitary pleasures, I made love with ‘underwater sound 360' in my ears. I read poems, stories, listened to music, watched reports, followed by hashtags underwater, ocean, sea, whales. To do this, she worked to totally immerse herself in thoughts of the ocean: The first part of this exploration was for Smoos to use behavioral conditioning on herself to expand her sexuality by psychologically linking sexual arousal with the sea. In the case of InBedWithOcean, this new reality Smoos and Fache wanted to explore was the sea.Īgain from their press materials, they stated their goal as to “believe in the optimization of our sensual capacities, the technology here becoming a means, not to deprive ourselves of our sensuality but to transcend it.” More recently, we reported on the In Bed With Laurent Garnier project, which linked sex tech devices to the throbbing techno beats at the Nuits Sonores techno music festival in France, Smoos and Fache have shown time and again a wonderful playfulness in combining sex and technology.Īnd now they’re back with a brand new experiment: one that, as their press release puts it, has allowed them to gradually push “back the barriers of imagination, sensations and sexuality.” InBedWithOceanĪccording to Smoos and Fache, the core concept of this new project lies in the idea of Cyberesthesia, a term created by the French cyberpunk artist, Yann Minh: “a process that, thanks to technology, allows us to extend our sensuality to several realities, universes, in time and space.” In June we covered the duo’s PussyTalk project, for which they created a system for SMS-texts to control a Lovense Lush 2 vibrator. Pushing the limits of sexualityīeing personal for a moment, there are a lot-and I do mean a lot-of fun things to write about on the subject of the future of human sexuality here at Future of Sex.īut the ones that, without fail, bring a bright grin, as well as a hefty dose of respect for their unique approaches to the subject, always have the name Smoos and Fache attached to them. This face is far from lost on the team of Cathline Smoos and Aurélien Fache, who created a project designed to take the power and eroticism of the sea and make it part of an intimately arousing experience. Gently rolling waves, thunderously crashing surf, froths, and sprays, deep currents, and playful eddies-yes, indeed, the ocean can, without a doubt, be a sensual, very sexual place.