Pleasure Points

Pleasure Points is a journey under the covers of the past, present and future of California’s pleasure product industry. Pleasure Points is an exploration of sex doll workshops, family run dildo factories and virtual reality porn sets that shines light on some of the more interesting ways that people chose to take control of their sex lives. People can't always control where, when and with who they have sex in the real world, but they can control their own fantasies. At the sex doll workshop of RealDoll in San Marcos around 30 dolls are produced per month and the company has just released its first doll with a robotic head that can interact with its owner. Every doll is completely customisable, from hair, to lips, to nipples, to vagina (there are more than 10 types). " ... a lot of people are lonely" explains Jeff, who works in the workshop. "They want somebody there, you know, they've lost their wives or boyfriends, girlfriends." RealDoll customers are gaining control over part of their lives that they have lost, or that they never had. In Hollywood, at the factory of Doc Johnson, 450 employees produce around 75,000 dildos, vibrators, masturbators, butt plugs and more every week. These products allow people to take control of where and when they get their sexual satisfaction, and new products are increasing connectivity so that couples can control each others products remotely, allowing interaction over long distances. Technology is also playing its part in the pornography world, and VR Bangers is a company that is producing highly immersive virtual reality porn shot in a 180-degree point-of-view (POV) angle. Viewers where a headset and can look around as though they are in the room as the star of the show. As more people watch porn (there were 33.5 billion visits to Pornhub alone in 2018), use dildos and interact with sex robots, more people are gaining control of a part of their life that up til now has been dependent on a relationship with another human.