I don't have an issue here, actually. If this keeps less women and girls from being forced into sexual slavery (either literally or via desperation) then I am all for it. I'm sure many will say that these robot sex realities will lead to a further degradation of the female, which is why I believe there should be an equal upsurge in male robots. Just think of the good they could do for women who are lovingly hetero and need a safe bridge back to their healthy sexuality after being the victim of a sexual assault? Also, I think the world would be surprised at the number of gender crossover enjoyment you would see amongst the homosexuals and heterosexuals alike; the inclusion of transgender robots of all stripe could help people work out their predilections in private so as to avoid the sudden UH-OH in the brain of a man attracted to a male to female person(s) and let him safely have just such sex without putting the lives of transgender sex workers in harm's way. Ultimately, as a former sex worker, I think that this somewhat creepy step forward may be exactly what a repressed and violent country (America is but one example) needs.

I love this kind of stuff.

Isn't "objectification" about as natural as eating? Anytime you take pleasure in a landscape painting, aren't your really just taking pleasure in an objectified image? It's certainly not the real thing (which is kind of the point). I tend to see all art appreciation as a sort of masturbatory exercise for that reason. I'm doubtful that men take any more pleasure in the image than women. Why is having sex with a doll any different? It's an aestheticized form of sex. Looking at the human-plastic hypbrids we have walking about in Hollywood, I'd say science has a long way to go before the representation (i.e., a robot) takes the place of the real thing (man or woman). But, if fading trophy wives of Beverly Hills and the hair metal stars of reality tv are any indication, many might start changing their view of the Real to fit the simulated plastic versions long before a realistic human is created for realistic sexual pleasure. That is, those with the money to spend might start to prefer the plastic over the flesh, obviating the need to make the plastic more flesh-like. This is sort of like the baldness of Capt. Picard in STAR TREK. Some fans once asked the creators of that show why baldness hadn't been "cured." The creators answer was that society got use to baldness before any cure was found, making scientific progress based on today's view of follicular perfection irrelevant. I guess the moral question of fucking a robot or a real person depends on how you take the Turing Test: is there a difference between a program and a human consciousness which can both respond in the same complex ways, such that you can't tell the difference between them? Is anything lost in that situation? My own answer would be that there's something wrong with treating the A.I. creation as a mere object, even if it's not the same as a human consciousness. A la BLADERUNNER, there's something not quite right about treating such a consciousness as if it were a toaster. But, as I said, we're a long way off from that particular dilemma.

I was just shaking my head when I started to read in the blog about having sex with robots. The first thing that came to my mind is the show Battlestar Galatica(the new series). For the past two months now, I've been watching the series DVD's up to season three. Throughout the show there have been scenes where the humans are making love with the robots. Having sex with a thing that has a red glowing beam going down their back....HELL TO THE NAH! LaterZzzz!
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Now this is the kind of intelligent discourse you always hope to find here. A toast to Billy, indeed. As to Chaz, we aren't dealing with Star Trek, NG's Data yet, so I guess we're safe from the liberation or uprising of the robots demanding their equal rights. Besides, be it Data or sexbot, they're a machine ... and they get to vote when I can't reload my shotgun fast enough. Dat's dat.

I agree with some of the previous comments that this is a really good blog. Regarding the issue of robot love or advanced machines that are almost human like. I think that if or when they become a reality that they will never replace real human beings. Yes, I agree that men especially will have sex with anything (LOL) including these robots. But I bet that there will a stigma attached to be seen as "having to resort to" sex with a machine (like you cant get a real girl) so the average macho guy will not admit to it. I do not agree that these sexbots will replace prostitutes - maybe only in a few cases - because sex is often about power over a human and prostitutes satisfy that power for certain men. Same for the hope that these machines as sex objects would wipe out crimes against women - specifically rape. We could only wish but they will not since rape is about power over a victim, not just sex. But ultimately I think that these sex robots will be just like all of the other new technological inventions today and in the immediate future - just more unavoidable global e-waste to mess up our already screwed up environment.

With all due respect the hype behind the Apple iPad is much stronger than the Google phone. A search on Google for each of the terms shows a 2 to 1 ratio of pages dedicated to the topic. Google News search shows a 4 to 1 ration. No matter how hard people from Google or Microsoft try to pan this produc others will push it forward.

fo real... get real... if everyone starts to think like this, we are all FUCKED. robots are you serious. what has this world come to. please if anyone need pussy that bad. that they will fuck a robot.. you are very sad and lonley. if you cant get it by a real human being then you should just kill yourself.. go ahead and do it .. PULL THE TRIGGER!! this world is goin to be filled with fuck robots putting everyone out of a job. and one day, these fucking things will one day come and kill every moterfucking idiots that are stupid enough to produced this. i hope they all come kill you in your sleep. and the machines will rule this planet. and it already taking progess. get a clue.

I think it all fits in quite perfectly. Men mostly treat women as dolls anyway, and the women don't seem to mind or notice; everyone's dehumanised. Not me of course, and that landscape painting idea is wrong, as paintings like that make more real and true the landscape than most people can see it usually, so it's actually less objectified rather than more, sprung through with vitality and emotional power, and that is why art, or good art rather is important, because it's the opposite of objectification (something called the pathetic fallacy that Keats writes about but which Chaz (above) denies the existence of - in fact sees all art as semi-masturbatory, which it of course is quite the opposite and practically our only salvation. Of course you have to have eyes to see it. I'd be dead without Hamlet or Botticelli). But there's very little of that around these days, I mean inspirational art that has meaning, and a great degeneration taking place; in fact most people haven't the faintest idea of what the human soul really is; emotions are pathologised, no love exists - I am walking around in a state of nausea nearly all the time, and of course I don't have a vibrator or ever want one. As for this idea that if we get some dolls in, then that is fine because real women won't be turned into prostitutes (when they are already, and it's no better for the men who are so divorced from their central human current they're not human any more either, and are told that's fine) or exploited, or raped, well I say rubbish to that. Far far better that we open death camps and Joy Divisions everyone and are forced to actually witness and take part in the brutalisation of the human spirit that is taking place anyway, instead of pretending it's not happening and getting all sanitised about it so we don't even notice it, or notice it less than ever. The only men it's possible to have sex with are ones who are in a similar state of ruin about the state of affairs as I am, and women like that too, the rest are no longer available for contact in any form at all if you ask me, but I don't think they should be allowed to reproduce, or not until they can prove their humanity, as I've spent too much time having to put up with half humans, and it rots my soul. As far as I'm concerned we're already breeding robots, or pale versions of humanity, an no one seems to think it's wrong. Disconnection is everywhere.

The anti-robots person seems to have some sort of idea (immediately above), but of course is taking the question too literally, even though I agree it was a literal question, and doesn't seem to register that there may be something inevitable about all this - as far as I'm concerned we're already in Invasion of the Bodysnatchers and there are fewer and fewer real people left. How many human beings does anyone really know? I only know imitations. Bloodless, heartless, fake, decrepit. The human race is nearing its end unless some sort of romantic revolution takes place, a counter-culture war on banality and emotional sterility. Without that, there really won't be any difference between robots and human beings, and from where I'm sitting there's very little difference anyway.

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