[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NeN5sPMhW9k[/youtube]
Probably the least biased/agendered/insane tedtalk on sexbots.
Personally I’ve never been anti-prostitution, and never really understood society’s knee-jerk denigration of the profession or of sex-workers in general. What shame, exploitation and tawdriness that is (and always has been generally) involved is wholly a symptom of society trying to repress something that has always been irrepressable, rather than just attempt to regulate and protect all parties involved.
When I say “never really understood” I mean, sure, I can see why religions, social groups, governments et al have repressed it throughout history, but never been convinced by any of their reasons. All of the reasons essentially distort a definition of ‘sexual activity’ into whatever convenient strawman suits their purpose, then go on to persecute the people who don’t adhere to it.
Anyway, moving on. There was a piece on the BBC newsite today that I look at over breakfast about “sexbots and psychological damage” which led me to check out how the whole sexbot industry is coming along. And whoo, it’s getting sophisticated. Both the female and male dolls are amazingly realistic, and they talk now too, using (probably a very dumb) AI neural net to pop up canned responses to verbal cues.
Like Siri but with genitals.
If you watch that tedtalk, there are some worrying statistics about the newer generations relationships - I may be remembering wrong - but something like 51% of people in the 18-25 age bracket have never had a relationship. Or sex.
Which is to me, sad.
The instant parallel for me between sexbot and prostitute is that when you pay a human prostitute, part of what you are doing is giving them money to temporarily shut down part of their humanity. The part that has its own drives, wishes, and judgement. The agreement is basically “here’s some money, become an object.”
If you accept this then a sexbot is more suited to the role of prostitute than a human, simply because it has no humanity to shut down. And by the way, there are brothels operating right now, where all the ‘girls’ are sexdolls. Profitable, clean, safe etc. Who knew lol…?
Much as the sexbot industry wants to portray itself as ‘equal opportunity’ let’s face it, it’s men driving this. We like our toys, and we’re sexually more suited to empty, unemotional sex than women. And the internet version of the age-old sexually-frustrated male just makes me want to buy a machine gun and kill them all. So much whinging.
“Incell”. Wow. That is an absolute masterpiece of political nicety. ‘Involuntarily celebate’. So much whine packed into such a small buzzword. When I were a lad, the phrase ‘can’t get laid’ was in vogue, which to me is at least honest. Implying that it’s the guy who has to take at least some responsibility for his ‘unlaid’ condition.
I’m bad at football. When it comes to picking teams, pick me last and put me in goal, I’m broad, I will block shots completely by accident. But I’m not ‘involuntarily’ bad at football. I’ve just never bothered to learn how to play very well.
These incell guys sound like they think it’s a woman’s duty somehow, to put out for allcomers. Like all that a guy should need to do is walk into a public place wearing a placade with “Hey ladies, I volunteer to have sex with you.”
Basically, I think sexbots would at least shut these guys the hell up. Which cannot be anything but good news.