Chapter One: Logging In
"It's my first time," I said. "I'm going to need you to tell me what to do."
The woman smiled. "Better Than Life is just like any other simsensory game, except that it's run by a powerful AI that can generate anything you can imagine. We have a list of your interests, and the Porno-world setting you've chosen can cater to any kink, but it helps to give it some idea of what you like and what you don't like first when it comes to sex. So. Straight, bi or gay?"
"Straight."
"Any special kinks or fetishes?"
"Not really. Not into BDSM, pegging, choking, water sports, feet, armpits, anything like that. Just oral sex, anal, rimming, titfucking... the usual stuff, I guess."
"Any particular setting? I know you write science fiction and fantasy, and we can do most of those worlds as well as historical..."
"Modern day is fine."
"How often do you want to be able to come?"
"I don't know. Once or twice an hour, like when I was a teenager, with the stamina I had when I was in my twenties and the skills and knowledge and memories I have now. Apart from that, I want to still be me, maybe without the glasses, but in a world where sex is safe and consensual and fun for everyone involved, so women say yes a lot more."
"Okay, that's straightforward enough. We're going to show you some images and get your reaction to those, and when that's done, just walk through the door."
"What door?" I asked, but she was already gone. The wall behind her became a cinema screen showing a montage of images: female porn stars in a variety of costumes, poses, sexual positions, and settings. The screen split into quarters, then sixteenths, and then the wall became blank apart from a very ordinary-looking door. I walked towards this and opened it, and found myself in the lobby of my favourite New Orleans hotel. The receptionist was a gorgeous woman showing impressive cleavage; she looked vaguely familiar, and if you'd put her on the cover of something like BLACK AND STACKED or EBONY BRA BUSTERS she would have doubled the sales figures, but I'm sure that if I'd seen her before I would remember her.
"Mr Singer," she said, smiling, as she removed a key from the rack behind her. "Good morning! Your luggage is already in your room. Number 22, second floor."
"Thank you," I said, taking the key. We both looked at each other for several seconds, but she didn't offer to show me her tits and I wasn't entirely sure I would get away with asking, so I just waved slightly and walked to the lift. Let's face it, I've never been good at propositioning women. Even most of my one night stands have been with women I've known for a while, and it took me most of a day window-shopping in Amsterdam's red light district before I worked up the nerve to ask a busty sex worker if the (very low) price of a fuck included permission to play with her breasts.
I walked along the corridor to my room, and as I passed an open door, I saw a petite blonde sitting on a bar stool and playing with her clit and nipples while a tall zaftig redhead kneeling behind her orally worshipped her lovely ass. I'm not sure how long I stood there and I didn't intend to stare, but the blonde looked around and smiled. "Hi. Just arrived?" She had an English accent, but not the London/Oxford type you usually hear; something more working class.
"Uh... yes."