Spy Emerson (L) with Flora Goodthyme (one of the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence)
Commentary by Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
How do you know when the cultural obsession with sex has reached the point of no return? When someone comes up with a “Hook-Up Truck”, a kind of mobile hotel suite outfitted to accommodate anyone who needs a place to indulge in casual sex.
According to CBSlocal.com, the city of San Francisco (where else?) now has a “Hook Up Truck”, a portable sex suite “including temperature controls, birth control, safe sex accouterments, and a camera option, in case you and yours decide to make the escapade a YouTube sensation . . .”
The truck, which was created by an artist named Spy Emerson, made its debut this weekend and is available for short-term rentals.
“The room is designed with cleanliness in mind. I’ve created a very minimalist room. Everything is wiped down and cleaned before and after every person. It’s probably cleaner than the BART [Bay Area Rapid Transit] or any public toilet you’ve used,” Emerson says.
The room has a C-shaped bench which has a stain-resistant vinyl cover that is designed “to facilitate positioning for the average-sized bodies,” she said.
“This is a game for adults who want to play with sex,” says Emerson. “You have to be nice, and cool,” she said, adding “No Drunks! but everyone is welcome to join us. There will be a party going on all the time!”
Even more convenient, the truck can be reserved through mobile dating apps “for immediate dispatch” and can be prebooked for festivals, weddings and holiday parties.
All that’s required is that the users be 21 and register with the “service.”
I can’t help but wonder where this is all headed. Can you imagine going to the annual summer carnival with your family and having a sex truck roll up and hang out it’s “open for business” sign to any kid who can cough up the rental fee? The next thing you know, they’ll add a prostitute to the service and call it a “mobile brothel”. How’s that for convenience? Just like the neighborhood convenience store! Just run in and get what you want, then run out.
This might work for grabbing a gallon of milk and a loaf of bread, but human beings don’t (yet) regard sex in quite so banal a way, especially not young people. Poll after poll shows them to be surprisingly traditional in their hopes to find real love and enjoy a life-long marriage in spite of a culture that insists on offering them condoms instead of commitment and “hooking up” instead of the happiness they crave.
We can only hope (and pray!) that the Hook Up Truck will go the way of the pet rock and disappear into everlasting obscurity.
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