Profit and Lust

Self, Will. Profit and Lust." In Cybersex anthology.

Time-travel story going into the future. Relevant here, and in part for its inclusion in the Cybersex anthology, for its grotesque time-travel ... device; strongly contrast H. G. Wells's The Time Machine and its offshoots:

For sex is always either about procreation, or not about procreation. It tantalizes with this binary opposition and in so doing draws our attention inexorably to the future-that-is-in-the present, and the past that is eaten up in the ecstasy of now. Therefore, in order to travel to the future, some sort of mechanical gizmo that linked orgasm to time seemed to be in order.

Rummaging behind my bed, I came up with some 15 vibrators left there by unsatisfied former lovers. I wired all of them together using hanks of frayed telephone extension cord, plugged them into various of my orifi [sic], and then plugged the socket into the phone. Finally — and I think this [...] will guarantee me my place in the history of engineering alongside Watt, Faraday, and Ann Summers[1] — I dialed the number of another dissatisfied former lover, who had moved east, to a time zone well ahead of ours [...].

She picked up the phone, I started panting, and - bingo! — I found myself yanked forward into the future. About 55 years into the future to be precise. (pp. 1-2)

RDE, finishing, 24Jan23