[RT] Academics are arguing that many people will soon be identifying as "digisexuals" and taking their sexual identity from having sex with robots.Women are too complicated. Your robot doesn't need bought dinner, doesn't have PMS, doesn't ask you to take out the garbage. She never complains about the way you smell, has massive bewbies and buttox, but she doesn't keep house.
While sex robots are currently quite primitive, a new report published in the Journal of Sexual and Relationship Therapy argues that before long they will be able to look, speak and act like real people - and will be specifically designed to fulfill a person’s desires.
Robots with a Jolly Green Giant Creamed Corn fetish?
The report’s authors, Neil McArthur and Markie L. C. Twist, from the University of Manitoba, Canada, argue that we need to be ready to deal with the phenomenon when it comes to fruition.
I can see this will contribute to morality, stability, and setting a good example for the children, if any.
"There is no question, then, that sexbots are coming," McArthur and Twist say. "Our view is that they will represent a different sort of sexual experience from what existing technologies offer. First of all, people will form an intense connection with their robot companions."
"X98276, I'm falling in love with you!"
[BZDEEP!]
"These robots will be tailor-made to meet people's desires, and will do things that human partners cannot or will not do. For this reason, significant numbers of people will likely come to use robots as their primary mode of sexual experience."
On the other hand: Saudi Arabian robot citizen wants a baby
The pair, who also co-authored the book "Robot Sex: A Book for the Enlightened Sapiosexual," argue that the rise of digisexuality will bring benefits, including potentially saving human relationships.
Not saving human population.
They also say that digisexuality will have a positive impact, particularly for people who experienced sexual trauma in the past or for those who have difficulty forming human relationships.
So now you can sit in your room alone. All your friends can be digital,
your shopping can be digital, and your love life can be digital. I recommend a healthy slug of digitalis.
However they warn that it will also bring a slew of difficulties and argue that doctors must be prepared to deal with digisexuality and have a framework for how to approach it.
No! Re-e-e-e-eally?
Noel Sharkey of the Foundation for Responsible Robotics (FRR) recently argued against sex robots being used by the elderly in care homes. "They are being proposed for the elderly in care homes, which I think is controversial.
| Given the level of STDs already to be found in nursing homes... |
So no anatomically correct digital love for the geriatric set. I saw another article that people with rape fantasies shouldn't be allowed to rape their robots -- stick with real flesh and blood. There was another one that said pedos shouldn't be allowed to buy robot partners with the bodies of a nine-year-old. Seems to me those are the sort of people who should be encouraged to explore their digital sexuality, while the normal and the near normal should be encouraged to get together for some serious fleshly encounters.
"It’s very sad because it’s going to be a one-way relationship," he continued. "If people bond with robots it’s very worrying. You are loving an artifact that can’t love you back, and the best they can do is fake it."
Doh.
| I suspect that once the novelty wears off, about the same people will turn to such devices as currently use vibrators and similar aids. The dolls, eventually no doubt available in male as well as female versions, will become the punchline of the same jokes. |