Touching Spiders
“If you touched the spider, it only works for a few minutes and then it’s not that cool anymore.” — Dr. Hunter Hoffman of the University of Washington on using virtual reality as a therapy to treat people suffering from arachnophobia.
That’s what he says, but do you think it would hold up as a bar bet? Let’s take that totally out of context and ask ourselves about the true nature of the spider? Could it be a metaphor for sexual nirvana?