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Since the dawn of time,China Archives people who aren't terrible have been using words to ask other people to have sex with them. What if we could do away with all that and press a fuck button instead?

A would-be product called LoveSync, which is mid-Kickstarter campaign at the moment, wants to do just that. Basically, it's two buttons — one for you and one for your partner — that you can press whenever you're interested in having sex. If your partner has also pressed their button, you'll both be notified with a "swirling glow." Then you just have sex, I guess?

The supposed advantage of LoveSync, according to LoveSync, is that it creates a sexual environment with "no rejection, guilt, or missed opportunities." Since you'll get a clear answer from your partner, it posits, you won't ever feel bad about mixed signals, differences in libido, or any of the other stressors that are part of being a sexual person.

Of course, this is very bad. If you are not motivated enough to initiate sex, you should not be having sex, and gamifying consent is a terrible idea. But the reason people are really going after this thing on Twitter is its Kickstarter description, which is full of mind-boggling phrases like "15 minute consensus window" and "sexual desire spectrum."

There's also a huge focus on being able to push your button "anonymously" — as if your partner would not already be aware that you, in fact, were in possession of your own button. This is all to say nothing of the fact that informing a large silver button of your horniness seems incredibly misguided.

At the time of writing, the creators of LoveSync had raised $1,807 of their $7,500 goal. We've reached out and will update if we hear back.

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