"I believe it is inevitable that within five years people will be having sex with robots,” Levy told his audience.

As the Rabbit(tm) is a robot, he seems to be lagging on the curve.

Although I hope my Mother doesn’t last another five years on the basis of this.

Here, I shall bring out my prejudices. The robots we are building these days do not have the capacity for sentience required in order to desire marriage. I happen to think that if all partners in the presumptive marriage don’t want it, it shouldn’t happen. This means that marriage to any but our closest simian cousins (or possibly some cetaceans) would not be possible. The robot cannot freely take on the responsibilities or the rights of either the economic or social aspects of marriage. I currently have no idea how a chimp, ape, or dolphin could, either, but I am willing to accept that may be a limitation of my imagination.

I think either the writer or the researcher she was interviewing is confusing sex with marriage.

I can’t think of one married guy that I know who WANTED to get married, so that theory is out the window!

:D

I think either the writer or the researcher she was interviewing is confusing sex with marriage.

Yep. Ditto.

I think that once people have fuckable robots, we will see the biggest sea change in human behavior since we first came out of the trees. So much of what we strive for is to attract a partner.

It’s gonna be weird.

I just can’t help but think that the sales of vibrators after we are allowed to marry machines will go up immensely.

Thus women will do away with men outside of the base need to reproduce.  Men will be locked away in slave camps with suction devices attached to draw semen out.  Women reproduce without the aid of man.  Woman rules the world.

SCAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARY!!!!

But for now, “Get me a sandwich, bitch!”

:D

Dunno about you fellas but I definitely prefer the “real thing” over any hardware, no matter how physically satisfying it is. I don’t think that the emotional component of sex is something that we’re all going to give up, en masse, simply because we’ve got an amusing artificial substitute. I DO think that it may well allow people to get to know themselves better and make for a lot more enthusiastic and talented performances.

How about training dolls for those not yet skilled at love making, interactive dolls with no sexual hangups that guide the novice.

Thus women will do away with men outside of the base need to reproduce.  Men will be locked away in slave camps with suction devices attached to draw semen out.  Women reproduce without the aid of man.  Woman rules the world.

Kinda sounds like The Gate to Women’s Country.

the emotional component of sex

emotio-what now?