this has to be one of the more peculiar articles i’ve ever read: Robot Sex
Just a couple of choice quotes for you:
In his thesis, “Intimate Relationships with Artificial Partners,” Levy conjectures that robots will become so human-like in appearance, function and personality that many people will fall in love with them, have sex with them and even marry them.
“It may sound a little weird, but it isn’t,” Levy said. “Love and sex with robots are inevitable.”
At first, sex with robots might be considered geeky, “but once you have a story like ‘I had sex with a robot, and it was great!’ appear someplace like Cosmo magazine, I’d expect many people to jump on the bandwagon,” Levy said
Instead of a woman saying, ‘Darling, not tonight, I have a headache,’ you could get ‘Darling, I have a headache, why not use your robot?’”
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Marry them? Perhaps.
But…
Matthew Henley invented the vibrator way back in the 1860′s…I’m no math whiz, but by my count: humans have been having “intimate relationships with artificial partners” for about 140+ years!
ooh. Good call!
Stupid scientists
Wow…I guess you can call that pornography that is interactive. Just another way to corrupt American men and the youth to falling for addictions that will cost them and arm and a leg. Plus, it will help decrease the population because I don’t think they come standard with reproductive organs.
joey, do you really want proponents of robot sex to reproduce? i, for one, do not.
plus, robot sex could really help revive the southern baptist’s recently latent sex education program. my church, for one, would be all about true love aspirates.
Naw … I was just being sarcastic.
damn, should have had my sarcasm meter turned on.
I’ve seen this concept explored in an episode of Futurama and it did not turn out well. Although I think that episode was more a comment on illegal downloading than on robot-human relations…