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These days, talk of the metaverse is inescapable. We take work meetings and suck up to our bosses in a virtual boardroom, attend couture fashion shows alongside BFFs, and even belt out “About Damn Time” at Lizzo and Charli XCX concerts in the world of virtual reality. And pretty soon, we might be having sex in it, too. 

With growing advancements in the world of VR, it’s only natural for people to wonder what might come next. And with the sex industry and sex in general making a large shift to virtual spaces during the pandemic (hello the re-emergence of phone sex and the rise of OnlyFans!), it makes sense that sex and intimacy would be the next step. But what does sex and intimacy in the metaverse actually look like? 

If you’re surprised to hear that sex is going digital, you shouldn’t be. People have been using virtual spaces for the purpose of sex and intimacy since pretty much the internet started. Who doesn’t remember the thrill of messaging your boyfriend semi-naughty things over MSN Messenger? A decade earlier, popular games like Second Life allowed users to engage in intimate and romantic acts in chat rooms.

The reasons why someone seeks intimacy have remained the same, but for some, the prelude has changed from dinner and a movie to logging in from your living room. Online spaces, like the metaverse, allow people a potentially safer space to explore desires, fantasies, kinks, fetishes, and things that they don’t feel comfortable or are unable to pursue in their physical lives. A digital space can also be a place for people with less physical mobility or who don’t have the ability to experience certain types of pleasure IRL. But overall the metaverse is an open playground for anyone. “I want to dispel the myth that folks that would participate in sex or intimate relationships virtually are only people who can’t get it in real life,” says sex and consent educator Samantha Bitty. “The truth is that there are so many different reasons for people to engage in intimate relationships virtually.”

So how does sex in the metaverse actually look, and more importantly, feel? Well, it kind of depends. Just like sex IRL is varied and diverse, so too are sexual experiences in virtual reality. The multi-sensory part of VR means that four of your senses are engaged within the online space, providing users with, “a combination of audio, visual, tactile (haptic), and even olfactory stimulus that lends to a more robust sense of immersion in the digital world,” says Brian Sanchez, lead character artist at RD Land, which specializes in creating safe spaces for cybersex, alongside other VR experiences. Currently in beta, the platform allows gamers to use devices like vests, gloves, and adult toys to engage these senses. Companies like RD Land are hoping to push these boundaries of how users perceive the world around them, by subverting the way their senses react. For example, instead of just playing The Weeknd’s latest album to get you in the mood, you could be in a virtual room where your device will vibrate differently to the beats of horny Drake or upbeat Lizzo and give different sensations. “In our worlds, every sensation can bring pleasure if the user so desires and so allows,” Sanchez says. 

Viro Playspace is also testing the waters. Similar to RD Land, the sex-positive company allows users to fully immerse themselves in different scenarios and engage with digital avatars for pleasure. You can have a one-on-one session with Emy, a vampire from Siberia who needs to consume blood to live, or experience Scalie Seduction, which brings gamers face-to-face with a “smokin’ hot dragon babe.” Other interactions include a sexual encounter underneath a waterfall while out for a hike (no fear of ticks or being caught by other hikers, included), and being dominated by an avatar who “puts the suck in succubus.” (Yes, we’re serious). Unlike RD Land, Viro Playspace is completely focused on fantasy, and produces and sells Bluetooth-enabled adult toys so users can actually physically feel what’s happening to them virtually, like clitoral stimulation, in real life — all while watching it on screen. 

Sex in VR is taking the next step of what’s already happening in the sex toy industry (like Bluetooth devices), but doing it in a much more immersive (and arguably) more pleasurable way. “If you look at certain sex toy companies, they have apps where someone could be in Australia on an app and you could be in Canada and they can operate your vibrator or your app and be in possession of the stimulation and the pleasure that you feel,” Bitty says. “So how is that different from if someone was hooked up to a virtual reality?”

In his book, The Metaverse: And How It Will Revolutionize Everything, author Matthew Ball theorizes what sex could look like with ongoing developments in the metaverse, pointing to the development of haptic bodysuits and vests, which allow you to feel virtual environments and stimulate your sense of touch, like feeling rain on your skin or a massage on your shoulder (or… another part of your body). Suits like the Teslasuit, which uses muscle stimulation to simulate real feelings and sensations on your body, currently run for around $20,000, meaning that not many people, aside from maybe millionaires, will be running to get them. But we’re at just the beginning of a burgeoning industry, and gadgets that help you feel the sensory resistance of drawing a bow and arrow in games like In Death: Unchained could also in theory be used for other sensory experiences. 

Specifically, Ball points to the development of CTRL-labs, an armband device that records electrical activity from skeletal muscles and can pick up the smallest of hand gestures — like pointing one finger or beckoning someone — and reproduce it in a virtual world. Although it’s a device that’s most often used for something like a virtual concert, the idea is that it could be used for more sexual or intimate activities. Instead of people throwing hands in the air at a virtual concert, in theory virtual hands could be on you. The opportunities and pleasure are endless. 

Of course, as with anything, there are challenges and drawbacks. There are concerns about safety around unwanted encounters, and some see the metaverse as potential grounds for predators. And we can’t blame them. In May of this year, a report was released detailing several accounts of sexual assault and harassment in the metaverse. But “our outside world is [already] a predatory space.” Bitty says. The real issue surrounding sex in virtual spaces, she says, has more to do with us as people — and the mentality around virtual intimacy — than the actual technology itself. “Technology has evolved faster than our ethics around sex and relationships in those spaces.” We’re still waiting for people to stop taking liberties online, like touching people without their consent or using slurs that they’d never utter in person. “Like with any other kind of sex, we have to treat it with the same ethics and values that we would in our in-person relationships,” she says. “So coming to it with authenticity, empathy, and those sorts of things is really important.”

How we get there — and whether or not we get there — remains to be seen. Experts differ on whether or not the metaverse is officially and actually “here.” Like with anything new, the OG internet, TikTok, or even Instagram, it’ll take time to work out the kinks and figure out what works best for users. 

But virtual intimacy — and the platforms that help users find it — can be vital. Sanchez points to one user who is in a wheelchair and disclosed that sexual intimacy was something they were unable to find or access regularly. “Yet in our [digital] worlds, they could find that type of much needed and humanly vital intimacy without judgment and without any perception of body or gender,” he says. And that’s a big deal. “Our real-world bodies don’t matter,” he adds. “We can choose how we are represented. We can choose a body that feels better to us or allows us to feel in different ways, and have a safe space where we can consentingly engage in exploration around our digital identities.”

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What Will Beauty Look Like In The Metaverse?

TikTok beauty trends have a unique way of making me feel both seen and exposed. I’ll explain. In the pursuit of finding niche beauty hacks that work on my specific features — especially my Black features — I’ve become extremely self-aware about all the various nuts and bolts that make me, well… me. After all, it’s through time well-spent scrolling on TikTok that I now know that the siren eyes trend works well on my #hoodedeyes, that there’s an ideal way to contour my long, #oblongface, and, in more recent scrolling activity, that I have a prominent  “double lipline” — and I may have been applying my lipstick incorrectly all along.

As a Black woman with full lips and a thick lip line around the border, the emerging double lip line videos on TikTok —  which are currently garnering more than 6 million views on the social media app —  are speaking directly to people with lips like mine. It’s a term spearheaded by Śola, a Black fashion journalist and UK-based content creator whose channel BeautyByŚola has been going viral for her make-up videos about her own double lip line. As she explains in her videos, it’s something Rihanna, FKA twigs, Gigi Hadid and more are said to have (and importantly, are celebrated for) yet double lip lines can be tricky when it comes to applying lip liner. Videos explaining how to effectively line lips like these are designed to be helpful but some have accused them of making people hyper-aware of something they may have otherwise been oblivious to. So what exactly is a double lip line and why should we care?

What exactly is a double lip line?

The phrase “double lip line” was coined by Śola after she learned she has a prominent vermillion border, which is the line just above the coloured portion that connects the lip tissue to the rest of your face. For some, this demarcation line between their lips and their skin is more defined and noticeable than others. It can mean that when applying lip liner and lipstick, the colour can bleed or look unnatural. 

Speaking to Unbothered, Śola explains that she began exploring double lip lines out of a genuine desire to learn more about her own. 

“It’s all about lips right now,” she says over Zoom. “It started with all the various lip kits, and then everyone wanted to have full lips and started to get lip filler. As a Black woman with naturally full lips, I couldn’t figure out why my lip liner never looked good when I put it on. So I began researching and learned about the vermillion border.”

“I always said I had a double lip line because that’s the only way I could describe it,” she continues. “And the only other person I saw had it was Rihanna. And I thought you know what, there has to be a way because she always looks fly”.

Śola explains in more detail that lip liner techniques like overlining can smudge or look unnatural if you have a strong vermillion border. In her videos, she explains to her followers the most effective placement of lip liner along the inner perimeter of the lip and recommends the use of neutral tone lip liner that matches your skin tone when using any shade of lipstick. For me, an avid lipstick wearer, these tips have been extremely helpful for creating a more defined pout. 

“I thought, I’m gonna make a video on this, now that I’ve finally mastered [how to line my lips properly]. The double lip line is similar to videos I’ve done about ‘how to wash your braids properly’ or ‘how to do your passion twists’ or what are the best sunscreens for darker skin’, I have to talk about it because if I’m thinking it, someone else might be thinking it.”

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Is a double lip line worth being self-conscious about?

Not everyone has been thrilled with the double lip-line discourse. As one user posted, “TikTok, I’m begging you, stop making sh*t up, what the hell a double lip line? Everyone has that to varying degrees.” Yet, despite some minor backlash, Śola is unfazed and wants to make clear that the videos are born out of her own real desires for her own features to be represented. 

“Cosmetic surgeries and lip fillers have become more popular over the [last] decade or so, and people are much more exposed to having big lips, but this hasn’t always been a thing,” she explains.

“When I was younger, I didn’t see anyone that looked like me and I was bullied for the way my lips looked,” she says. “And it was hard for me to position myself in a space of thinking I was beautiful because I didn’t see anyone with lips that looked like mine. While everyone in my family had full lips and looked similar to me, growing up all I saw were shows like Sweet Valley High and they didn’t have lips like mine. So when I finally got into makeup, and I was putting on makeup, I didn’t know how to do it.”

As a teen in the noughties, I hard relate to Śola’s journey of learning to love her full lips when they were once something people ridiculed. Yet, I’d personally never heard or cared about my double lip line before now. Could making an example out of it on TikTok make some more self-aware about their face and beauty than is perhaps healthy?

“Just because you may be late to it, doesn’t necessarily mean other people may not be struggling with that particular thing,” Śola says. “I was never told when I was younger, that it was a nice, good thing to have, maybe you did, but I wasn’t exposed to that. There are a lot of people who have had the same issue as me,” she adds.

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“This is why I believe we need to encourage esteem in people that have these natural attributes that weren’t esteemed before, because, for a long time, they’ve subconsciously, like myself, thought [they were] not good enough. But now, I shifted my thinking; this is actually something I can really work with. I know it’s beautiful. And I know it’s unique. I am reinforcing that by learning to work with my unique attributes,” she says.

Śola suggests that like with the natural hair community, where Black people began to learn about how to work with their specific hair textures, learning how to work with your specific lip shape opens you up to a better understanding of how makeup works on your face.

“It’s actually quite simple. It’s not something to be insecure about but something to celebrate. If my videos help you, then this is for you. If it’s not, it’s okay, it’s cool. It’s fine.”

In many ways, extremely niche and nuanced makeup tutorials are just more examples of representation within beauty. And, having more tailored tips only really leads to better makeup. This is certainly true for Śola.

“I feel like — especially among Black women — our lips tend to stand out for many of us. And they can be a centre stage part of our face. Now I get complimented a lot on my lips, and I now love the parts of my lips I used to be bullied for. And now when I do my lips with this new understanding of how to apply my lip liner and my lipstick, it doesn’t look as if the makeup is wearing me.”

“It’s funny,” she adds. “I know other cultures do this too, but remember when our aunties and moms used to do the lip line and the gloss back in the nineties? They had the blueprint all along.”

This article was originally published on Unbothered UK

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