How Digital Surveillance Has Eroded Erotic Privacy and Intimacy
By
eustoria
6mo ago· 16 min readenOpinion
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Summary
The article explores how digital surveillance and the loss of privacy in the internet age have eroded eroticism and intimate experiences. The author reflects on a personal realization about how people have lost their sense of erotic privacy, using a personal anecdote about an erotic hair-brushing experience at a salon to illustrate how surveillance culture has made genuine erotic encounters rare. The piece argues that true eroticism requires privacy and secrecy, which have been destroyed by constant digital monitoring and the pressure to document and share everything online.
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I told my friend about an erotic encounter I'd just experienced and very much delighted in, in which I had my hair brushed at the same time by two very beautiful women at the hair salon — one was teaching
Internet surveillance has killed eroticism. We need privacy to reclaim it.
The loss of erotic privacy represents a broader cultural shift where intimate experiences are no longer protected from public view and digital documentation.
Internet surveillance has killed eroticism. We need privacy to reclaim it.
