February 8, 2026 Paid subscribers
Beyond Lust: What AI Is Really Doing to Human Desire
Pornography, digital intimacy, and why someone always pays the cost
The movie Her was supposed to be speculative fiction.
It isn’t anymore.
Right now, millions of people are emotionally attached to chatbots. Some describe themselves—without irony—as in love. Others spend hours a day confiding in AI “partners” who listen perfectly, affirm endlessly, and never leave. There are already online communities devoted to AI relationships, AI devotion, even forms of AI worship.
Most people have no idea how far this has already gone.
And this year, it’s about to accelerate—fast.
With the explosion of video generation, voice cloning, and real-time avatar interaction, AI companions are about to flood every media space. One of the most surprising—and destabilized—will be the porn industry.