2. Technology is an effective solution to many inefficiencies in human life, but as conventional practice is
gradually transformed into one-click procedures, aspects of human life now severely lack interpersonal
connection and human thought. The idea of being human is lost in code.
In many situations, technology breaks boundaries and augments reality. Many times, technology also knows
no boundaries. The discourse surrounding transhumanism encompasses a range of important issues – ethics
of human-robot interaction, rights to human body manipulation and the replacement of sexual partners with
automation.
Technology
3. SexSexSex
Sex technology has developed exponentially. Developments in sex tech can be talked about as an aid to
humanity in the name of science. While virtual reality (VR) pornography, sex robots and sex apps might seem
intrusive to basic human nature, sex technology is a viable solution to a range of social problems.
However, the further we develop sex tech, the more we open up a Pandora’s box of intricately connected
issues in Chinese family, society and economy.
4. China
China, a largely conservative society governed for decades by harsh family-planning policies under a single-
party communist rule, used to prosecute people who have pre-marital sex under the charge of ‘hooliganism’.
This was only abolished in 1997.
As China slowly crept to the highest worldwide rankings of economic power over the past 30 years, its society
was given little time to react to an influx of foreign influence. The dynamics of love, family and relationships
morphed – Chinese people are having more sex, with more partners and at a younger age.
China is in the midst of a sexual revolution.
5. Code Kink
Code Kink fuses the themes of technology, sex and socioeconomic development in China in a 15-minute
visual feature.
Audiences will understand the introduction of sex technology to societies, possible impacts and inevitable
consequences.
A look at the middle-class demographic of Chinese society tells compelling stories about how sex technology
has improved sex education, enhanced sex lives, broken marriages and created fringe subcultures.
6. Code Kink takes audiences through the various types of sex technology. By speaking to local Chinese
consumers of VR porn, various motivations behind purchasing VR technology for sexual purposes are
revealed.
Is the sexual revolution in China giving rise to more than meets the eye?
The founder(s) of interest-based friend-finding app Pansidong provides a perspective on the need to
enhance sexual health in China, by integrating chat and Snapchat-style photo-sharing features into a mobile
app.
7. Code Kink gives audiences an in-depth look at sex robots in China – the people who are making, selling and
purchasing them for sexual purposes. Consumers of sex robots speak about the importance of lifelike
features on a sex robot and how their robots bring company, comfort and pleasure.
Code Kink explores robot replacement. Liu, a car designer who resides in the industrial suburbs of Beijing,
speaks about forking out US$2000 for his sex doll.
Micdolls salesman Yi Jiange and RealDoll founder Matt McMullen lead the discussion about the issues
affecting Chinese men in modern urban society. Do robots define the future of sex and relationships for
working-class men who currently spend days in an office and go home to empty beds?
8. After introducing the concept of robot replacement, Code Kink fades into a dialogue about transhumanism:
genetic modification, prosthetic human parts and digitalised interfaces of the human brain.
By speaking to Guangzhou-based biotech researcher Junjiu Huang, Code Kink acknowledges that
developments in transhumanism will contort the future of human existence, interaction and reproduction.
As China surges ahead in its economy and technological know-how, Code Kink uncovers China’s need to
rethink policies with components of social inclusion and community-building – the sexual revolution being a
clear indicator of social change.
