: The modern pressure to "perform" or "curate" sexual experiences, often influenced by digital aesthetics and pornographic standards, which replaces the raw, passive vulnerability of being present.
One day, we may look back at sex as a "much-loved but frivolous game," much like jousting, as digital lives increasingly replace "touchable skin". passive intimacy? Goodbye to sex: a short and heartfelt eulogy - The Guardian 2022---A-short-eulogy-to-sexual-passivity
By 2022, academic and cultural discourse began to treat "passivity" or even "low desire" as a valid state rather than a medical pathology. : The modern pressure to "perform" or "curate"