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Showing Original Post only (View all)Will we ever want to have sex with robots ? [View all]
yes, the original headline.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-23637225
Meet Roxxxy the sex robot with a triple XXX. Depending on your view 'she' is either at the cutting edge of the human-robot interface, or a modern reflection on some men's difficulties in relating to real-life partners.
While sex aids are nothing new, what makes Roxxxy different is "we've taken artificial intelligence" and "combined it with a human form," says creator Douglas Hines.
Of course, humanoid robots have been the stuff of science fiction for decades - ever since Fritz Lang's 1927 film Metropolis, or Isaac Asimov's I Robot stories.
The reality is somewhat more clunky.
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Are you sure it wasn't because of a martyrdom complex or a bizarre paranoia rather than sexism?
LanternWaste
Aug 2013
#91
Wtf ? You've removed masturbation from thngs to do that are having sex?
Warren Stupidity
Aug 2013
#57
Owners will also be able to select different personalities .., from "Wild Wendy" to "Frigid Farrah,"
jakeXT
Aug 2013
#61
Consider the robot as a large dildo, and I think you can answer that question n/t
Yo_Mama
Aug 2013
#71
Hard to say, but if I'm ever stranded on a desert island with Ann Coulter and ...
11 Bravo
Aug 2013
#95