You don't need sex to make babies anymore, and this has never happened before. I think what that does is clarify and even accentuate the fact that we are reinventing sex. I mean, we could literally put a moratorium on sex for 100 years and we still would not extinguish the human race. We could do it. In a way it's happening with all the penile extensions, vaginal surgery, and god knows what else.
Women can have penises and men can have vaginas, or the equivalent.
It's a new sex which doesn't necessarily involve any of the old mechanisms of sex because they're not needed anymore. I'm playing with all of that as well, in the imagery that's in the film. The imagery, of course, includes licking, poking, and in other ways exploring these bioports. When eXistenZ 's characters Allegra Geller and Ted Pikul are on the run, Geller becomes concerned that the one and only game pod for her game may be damaged. Once inside the game within the film, these two characters play versions of themselves in a world where supporting characters are underwritten and accents are extra broad.