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News & ArtsWednesday, December 16, 2009
Sex / Tech The Sexbots Are Coming! The Sexbots Are Coming!
Posted by Dan Savage on Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 9:02 AM
And it's gonna be awesome!
Sexbots will never have headaches, fatigue, impotence, premature ejaculation, pubic lice, disinterest, menstrual blood, jock strap itch, yeast infections, genital warts, AIDS/HIV, herpes, silly expectations, or inhibiting phobias. Sexbots will never stalk us, rape us, diss us on their blog, weep when we dump them, or tell their friends we were boring in bed. Sexbots will always climax when we climax if we press that little button on their butt.... More predictions: Sexbots with this option: do we want eye contact, or not? Sexbots that shower after we use them and put themselves back in the closet. Sexbots available in hotels, cruise ships, vacation homes, and convalescent hospitals. Sexbot booths in liquor stores that wipe out corner prostitution. Sexbots that are delicious when you lick them. Sexbot Packages for sorority parties, military camps, prisons. Parents buy their adolescent children Sexbots for Christmas to assist them in their passage through puberty. Gyms offer soundproof chambers where you work out with 15 minutes of XTreme Sexbot Cardio.
Sexbots! What could possibly go wrong! Besides the stalking! And the killing! And Richard Benjamin's mustache!
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Per usual...I cannot see the content at the end of this post...my hope is that it's a link to the Futurama propaganda film "Don't Date Robots!"
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Lawless violence on the American frontier of the 1880s! Oh baby, nothing sexier than lawless violence.
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When I read the sentence "Parents buy their adolescent children Sexbots for Christmas...", I at first saw a period after "children", LOL.
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If a sexbots has sex with you against your will due to a programming error, is it considered rape?
What makes it rape? The rapist or the rapee?
Can you be a victim of rape from a non-rapist perpetrator?
Sooooo many new philosophical questions to procrastinate with!
What makes it rape? The rapist or the rapee?
Can you be a victim of rape from a non-rapist perpetrator?
Sooooo many new philosophical questions to procrastinate with!
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Calm down, people.
Sexbots are just the new jetpacks.
And we all know how cool jetpacks turned out to be, right?
Sexbots are just the new jetpacks.
And we all know how cool jetpacks turned out to be, right?
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They're still trying to recover from the disaster that is Windows Vista. Pardon me if I don't hold my breath waiting for a sexbot.
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I really don't understand men sometimes. If I want a robotic masturbation experiment, I use a vibrator. If I want a hot robotic masturbation experiment, I use a vibrator while watching The Colbert Report. I can't imagine having sex with a mannequin with a vibrator in the crotch, why on earth would men want to do something similar? Wouldn't they all rather use a Fleshlight, even a Fleshlight hooked up to some kind of automated arm and watch porn with real live women rather than masturbating with a robotic doll?
I know, I know--two words--anime porn.
Still, I don't get it. Maybe it's a guy thing?
I know, I know--two words--anime porn.
Still, I don't get it. Maybe it's a guy thing?
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@ 14, Maybe men are slightly more interested in robotics and gadgetry than women in general... But in my mind, there is not a lot of difference between fucking a vibrator and fucking a robot. In anything, robots are less of an inanimate object.
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Well, conceptually no. But presumably with a robot the guy is looking at the robot to get off, rather than looking at porn. He's sexually focusing on an inanimate object.
On the other hand, looking at it from the other direction, I suppose maybe a case could be made that men have fetishes about inanimate objects anyhow, like getting off with a woman's shoe.
But even there, one would assume that the fetish is that a real live women wore, or was associated with the item at some point. I just don't get it.
Hmm, maybe men who were hurt by real live women or scared of them could benefit from this. But the appeal is bewildering to me.
On the other hand, looking at it from the other direction, I suppose maybe a case could be made that men have fetishes about inanimate objects anyhow, like getting off with a woman's shoe.
But even there, one would assume that the fetish is that a real live women wore, or was associated with the item at some point. I just don't get it.
Hmm, maybe men who were hurt by real live women or scared of them could benefit from this. But the appeal is bewildering to me.
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He left out sexbot games in arcades. You fuck a sexbot, and it scores your performance. Compete with your friends!
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@ 18, I don't think you can presume a man's sexual focus would be on the robot itself as an object. I think that the entire point of building a sexbot in human form would be to make the fantasy aspect slightly more plausible.
Also, I don't think you should take it for granted men would be the only consumers of sexbots. There are plenty of lonely women out there who invest in sex toys- this seems like a natural next step.
Also, I don't think you should take it for granted men would be the only consumers of sexbots. There are plenty of lonely women out there who invest in sex toys- this seems like a natural next step.
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Oh, so men would close their eyes and imagine a real woman while having sex with the robot. That I could understand.
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So, would pedophiles be able to custom order a child sexbot? Could people into bestiality order an animal sexbot? How about necrophiliacs ordering a zombie sexbot?
I mean, no laws would be broken, right?
I mean, no laws would be broken, right?
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@24, Actually, it would be the perfect therapy. The laws would only be broken in their *minds* and no real harm would come to people. Genius.
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@21, They don't judge, it's all about your pleasure. Gaybot, lezbot, fuckbot, suckbot, multiple choice for one low low price but only if you call within the next 10 minutes. It even cleans up and put's itself away. I'm calling mine Harold!
Dan, NO eye contact, that's just too creepy (I'll be waaatccching you). No, no, no.
@25, No real harm would come to, um, any...thing, man, child, beast, dead people. Yes, totally genius.
Dan, NO eye contact, that's just too creepy (I'll be waaatccching you). No, no, no.
@25, No real harm would come to, um, any...thing, man, child, beast, dead people. Yes, totally genius.
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@24, 25: But isn't that sort of like the whole "picture of a child from 1880" thing? That 'child' is long dead, so what harm comes from a pedophile jerking off to it now? It could be argued that allowing one outlet for the desire increases the desire. Not saying I agree with this argument, but it will of course be made.
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LOL--Okay, yes I'd hit Data. But that's because he's human, pretty much. I don't think I saw AI. Blade Runner...can't quite see it.
Now a torso of a guy I could use, just to strengthen my thighs and get better at cowgirl--like an exercise device. I've already got a furniture harness I use, and it's a pain setting up a bolster and dildo and all that. I don't have any problem with the idea of sex toys, just sex toys as sex objects. Hm, in this case "sex objects" is confusing!
Now a torso of a guy I could use, just to strengthen my thighs and get better at cowgirl--like an exercise device. I've already got a furniture harness I use, and it's a pain setting up a bolster and dildo and all that. I don't have any problem with the idea of sex toys, just sex toys as sex objects. Hm, in this case "sex objects" is confusing!
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Sexbots would have to be pretty damn realistic to be worth it.
But also, think of the fetishes this would *create*
You KNOW there would be people who would have a fetish for pretending that they or their lover is a sexbot!
But also, think of the fetishes this would *create*
You KNOW there would be people who would have a fetish for pretending that they or their lover is a sexbot!
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I saw Westworld on a double-bill with Sleeper. Sexbots and the Orgasmatron! My pre-teen head exploded...or rather, it would have exploded, if only I had the slightest idea what the hell all the fuss was about.
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@24 Some plushophiles already have sex with stuffed animals, its not too far off. I'd rather people do fake kids, fake animals than real ones.
@18. I don't see why anyone considers the whole sexbot thing weird. It's not for me, but I don't see it as any stranger than people that masturbate to 2D pictures. I mean, a photograph is not a real person, its just an image captured on film. A drawing is just lines on paper. A 3D mannequin, RealDoll, sexbot, whatever, is the same principal but 3D, not 2D. Maybe it is all a little strange, but that's the power of human imagination and invention.
If I got a sexbot it'd have to be the most weirdest, inhuman looking thing out there. Something no one would ever guess would be a sexbot. I'm still debating what it would actually be, but it'd be hilarious.
@18. I don't see why anyone considers the whole sexbot thing weird. It's not for me, but I don't see it as any stranger than people that masturbate to 2D pictures. I mean, a photograph is not a real person, its just an image captured on film. A drawing is just lines on paper. A 3D mannequin, RealDoll, sexbot, whatever, is the same principal but 3D, not 2D. Maybe it is all a little strange, but that's the power of human imagination and invention.
If I got a sexbot it'd have to be the most weirdest, inhuman looking thing out there. Something no one would ever guess would be a sexbot. I'm still debating what it would actually be, but it'd be hilarious.
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Rutger Hauer as a replicant in Blade Runner would definitely make me give up any possible reservations about sexbotism.
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Wow, this is posted just a day after the visit from Tera Patrick? What a coincid... er... why those two are connected (cough cough)... well, I've always predicted that if the time comes within the next 5 to 10 years, she'll probably be the first model sold. Just based on her overall career path/longevity.
The Christian Right is going to FREAK over this. All of a sudden, you're going to hear all sorts of bellowing from them about how sex is only for PROCREATION... from a bunch of folks who ain't so Catholic re. contraception.
The Christian Right is going to FREAK over this. All of a sudden, you're going to hear all sorts of bellowing from them about how sex is only for PROCREATION... from a bunch of folks who ain't so Catholic re. contraception.
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Guys, do you have no idea of the directions robotics are going?
A sexbot is going to be more than a Fleshlight on a servo-arm with squeeze, vibro and pulse settings. Sex starts in social interaction (e.g. the bar-room or coffee house), not the bedroom. Sexbots, when they enter mainstream (or even common fringe) use, they're going have moved beyond the uncanny valley. They'll be about the interactions that lead up to sex as well as the act itself. The point would be to simulate all the elements of attraction, and to run (rapidly) through the flirting and courtship phases. People will fall in love with sexbots the same way they fall in love with humans, since all those interactive elements that compel the brain to love will be precisely emulated.
In fact, once we nail down human courtship to the eye-dilations and pheromones, it may become easier for humans to engage sexbots sooner than they engage humans, the way we are quicker to engage puppies or kittens faster than we do their owners.
We may, as a species, cease engaging each other sexually except for reproduction, and then only if we still rely on sex to breed. This ability to tap into love responses could prove an effective method for advertising, campaigning or any other kind of marketing.
And yes, expect lolibots (Lolita bots or kid bots), zoobots, bots that are outrageously hung. bots with impossible waistlines or gravity defying breasts that wobble in slow motion, sadobots, dombots, anime bots, bots that teach your son about girls / daughter about boys, bots that look like specific TV figures and anything else that can find a market.
Also: Rodney Brooks covers some of the earlier studies into robotics (this is in 2003) and discusses why we shouldn't expect them to go all terminator on us, despite our recent exponential increases in robotic deployments for military purposes.
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A sexbot is going to be more than a Fleshlight on a servo-arm with squeeze, vibro and pulse settings. Sex starts in social interaction (e.g. the bar-room or coffee house), not the bedroom. Sexbots, when they enter mainstream (or even common fringe) use, they're going have moved beyond the uncanny valley. They'll be about the interactions that lead up to sex as well as the act itself. The point would be to simulate all the elements of attraction, and to run (rapidly) through the flirting and courtship phases. People will fall in love with sexbots the same way they fall in love with humans, since all those interactive elements that compel the brain to love will be precisely emulated.
In fact, once we nail down human courtship to the eye-dilations and pheromones, it may become easier for humans to engage sexbots sooner than they engage humans, the way we are quicker to engage puppies or kittens faster than we do their owners.
We may, as a species, cease engaging each other sexually except for reproduction, and then only if we still rely on sex to breed. This ability to tap into love responses could prove an effective method for advertising, campaigning or any other kind of marketing.
And yes, expect lolibots (Lolita bots or kid bots), zoobots, bots that are outrageously hung. bots with impossible waistlines or gravity defying breasts that wobble in slow motion, sadobots, dombots, anime bots, bots that teach your son about girls / daughter about boys, bots that look like specific TV figures and anything else that can find a market.
Also: Rodney Brooks covers some of the earlier studies into robotics (this is in 2003) and discusses why we shouldn't expect them to go all terminator on us, despite our recent exponential increases in robotic deployments for military purposes.
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Taking your question seriously, sirkowski a sexbot raping a human would be no more of a crime than an automobile accident. If it's due to a programming error, then it's a faulty product, in which case the producing company can be sued for injuries. If the product was misused by the owner (i.e. deactivating safety mechanisms for a rougher ride) then it's using a product outside of its specifications for safe usage.
If someone intentionally re-programmed the sexbot to rape someone else, then its assault with an appliance by the programmer. If the person dies, it's murder (or at very least manslaughter), and the sexbot is the weapon.
If someone intentionally re-programmed the sexbot to rape someone else, then its assault with an appliance by the programmer. If the person dies, it's murder (or at very least manslaughter), and the sexbot is the weapon.
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With reference to your title - one dildo if by land, two if by sea. I suppose I could make those into metaphors for oral and anal but I don't want to put in the effort at the moment.
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Our company, MacMil Cybernetics, Inc., has created female and male sexbots named Susie Software and Harry Harddrive. You may see information, videos, and pictures at www.sexbots.us, or search MMCYB on You Tube. Sex Bots will be featured in an upcoming documentary to air on Discovery Health September 24th @ 10:00 p.m.
Our company, MacMil Cybernetics, Inc., has created female and male sexbots named Susie Software and Harry Harddrive. You may see information, videos, and pictures at www.sexbots.us, or search MMCYB on You Tube. Sex Bots will be featured in an upcoming documentary to air on Discovery Health September 24th @ 10:00 p.m.
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