Robert Silverberg? -- long ago, IIRC these folks were ~~ class=Britney, idiocy=high. Trade your meat for some transistors. Obv. a Consume Everything to Excess society, just slightly less screwy than ours. Don't remember title - but Vol-Amps was what they called selves.

Sex was said to be enhanced; if you ""trust"" your partner sufficiently to become Third Base ... (ie. all 4 appendages deappended)