Now I would have to compare Avatar to a previous movie that premiered called Surogate, played by Bruce Willis. You sense all the senses in your surogate body with your real body as well, but you are giving your conscious self while your surogate body gives “itself”. Like a wet dream, you dream of having sex and thus your genitalia emits its juice, because your brain gave off the signal of ejaculation. So in your avatar body you would just do the same thing.

I wish we never go towards a Terminator future, because that would definately suck. But if we have to go towards a future of machines, perhaps a future closely related to Battle Angel, the manga that James Cameron is pursuing to make a movie out of. Now that is another HOT THING. Yum.

Of course he is. His body is his avatar, not that vacated lump of flesh awaiting his return in the pod. He cannot feel the body in the pod, he is not connected to it's sense organs, he cannot control it, he does not inhabit it. He is in the avatar; he sees, hears, smells, tastes, and touches through it only. When he gets excited, it is his Navi heart that he feels quickening in his chest. When he is aroused, it is his Navi sexual organs that become engorged (*snicker*). How can having intercourse with that body while he inhabits it NOT be “physically having sex”? It's real flesh and blood, certainly not virtual.