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I watched "Her" and found the "phone sex" bit absolutely ridiculous, where a body less AI gets "off" with a conversation accompanied by moans and gasps. Kudos to Scarlett johanssen for some hot acting, but I don't buy that a disembodied AI could have any equipment available to provide the requisite stimulation. I could have bought it if the AI was lying and just saying whatever to ingratiate itself with its boss. But the movie lacked imagination. It had one imaginative concept and then made it into a dull movie I fell asleep near the end of. Obviously it was totally riveting ...

As for robots, I'd guess women have far less desire for such things than men. Men have a physiological need to blow their wad, while for women it's all mental. Let me explain:
Semen is collected in the prostate before being released by orgasm. Over time, without release, the prostate swells. As it swells, it puts pressure on a delicate network of nerves surrounding it. These nerves are Hardwired into the brain in areas that deal with sexual arousal.
So the longer it's been, the larger the man's prostate, the more he's compelled to think about sex, and the smaller the trigger needed for arousal.

We literally do not have a choice. It's blow the wad or walk around in torment.
I wish women understood this.

That head line should really read 1 in 5 MEN would have sex with a robot.

If you find her G spot, bells and whistles sound off signifying free credits!

Quigley says

We literally do not have a choice. It's blow the wad or walk around in torment.

I wish women understood this.

This is what women do not understand. Best to explain this to your partner. Let them know, you do not have a choice, you have to get it out. You could go further if you want to be rough and state....I have to have it. Either I get it from you, or from someone else. You choose.

So you're telling me that when it's possible to have sex with a no-attitude Raquel Welch, Sophia Loren, Marilyn Monroe, [ fill-in-your-classic-beauty ] look-a-like android, that only 1 out of 5 guys would opt for it?

Try more like 4 out of 5.

It's just not the same without the nagging and financial extortion.

Unless the robot winds up with a lot of your stuff after a few sex acts, it will never feel normal or natural.

"Do not remove this white tag under penalty of felony. You may upon device malfunction suffer sudden penile extraction and blood loss, as well as lesser incidents of bruising, bleeding and testicular laceration. Use at your own risk."

Ceffer says

It's just not the same without the nagging and financial extortion.

Unless the robot winds up with a lot of your stuff after a few sex acts, it will never feel normal or natural.

Yes, this could be a major issue, as an entire generation of Leonardo DaVincis, Goethes, Michelangelos could emerge out of a bunch of happy guys, pursuing their true interests than in trying to get some tail.

Rin says

Yes, this could be a major issue, as an entire generation of Leonardo DaVincis, Goethes, Michelangelos could emerge out of a bunch of happy guys, pursuing their true interests than in trying to get some tail.

And being able to spend money and time on buying paints and canvas, instead of seeing yet another Zappo box arrive.

thunderlips11 says

Rin says

Yes, this could be a major issue, as an entire generation of Leonardo DaVincis, Goethes, Michelangelos could emerge out of a bunch of happy guys, pursuing their true interests than in trying to get some tail.

And being able to spend money and time on buying paints and canvas, instead of seeing yet another Zappo box arrive.

And for ppl like myself, computers & laboratory facilities for my own research and development activities.

In fact, with my Raquel Welch android, I may actually never need to leave the lab.

John Bailo says

Truth be told, single or married, from a guy's perspective, most would rather have a girlfriend who was more like a car than a person.

You mean like putting an artificial vagina in a talking hybrid Lamborghini that flatters your ego?

The insurance costs would still kill you.

It's just like a guy to use car analogies for everything.

A woman would say the ideal man is like some kind of designer purse that grows it's own money and takes out the garbage.

John Bailo says

If you could have any option whatsoever for sex, and it was with a machine, hence no morality involved, then you could marry anyone you want...you could marry an obese person with a high IQ or heart of goodness and still not walk around the mall ogling short skirts.

The question is ... why would a guy marry anyone circa 2050? I mean once you factor out the sex & physical attraction, that other person is just a friend. And yes, I've befriended chubby women but aside from the buddy-buddy thing, there's nothing else beneath the surface.

And thus, with AI/'bots, as in the case of the movie 'Her', serving up an intelligent, highly attentive personal assistant, it could very likely replace current relationships between men and women. Think about it, in only a few short years, a large percentage of the public is hooked to their portable smart phone/computers. From 2007 to 2014, it didn't even take a generation.

This outer limits episode was too ahead of its time and wasted a lot of time with puritanical ideas/guilt and theories of consciousness. In reality, when Valerie 23 comes on line, the world as we know it, will change within a decade's time max.

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Rin says

Yes, this could be a major issue, as an entire generation of Leonardo DaVincis, Goethes, Michelangelos could emerge out of a bunch of happy guys, pursuing their true interests than in trying to get some tail.

Or the opposite. People could get laid whenever they want without having a job, brushing their teeth, or even acting like a reasonable human being. Kinda removes a lot of incentives for why guys do pretty much anything.

This it the futurama hypothesis on robot dating.

varmint says

Kinda removes a lot of incentives for why guys do pretty much anything.

This it the futurama hypothesis on robot dating.

Here's the thing, if you were a toddler/kid during the original Star Wars trilogy, the excitement of that was Space travel, Mind-Over-Matter (The Force), Adventure, fighting Vader's minions, Light Saber/Lightspeed technologies, and the list goes on. However, whether or not Han & Leia ever did it, was for the grown ups in the audience, not us kids. For us, it was about this grand adventure of the future. Thus, we didn't have the carrot/stick of getting laid or not getting laid, to dream the big dreams.

Fast forward and we're all grown ups. In place of dreaming about spaceships, warped space, and the Force, we're thinking about working for some a-hole, paying our bills, and then constantly having to appease the misses.

Thus, if we were to start over, in place of the Futurama dystopia, I can see myself and my Raquel Welch 'bot, working on that light saber together.

If you can't afford the entire sexbot, can you just by the parts you interested in?

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zzyzzx says

1 In 5 Would Have Sex With A Robot

Get past the Uncanny Valley, and it's 5 in 5.

Dan8267 says

zzyzzx says

1 In 5 Would Have Sex With A Robot

Get past the Uncanny Valley, and it's 5 in 5.

Some of the feminist-indoctrinated guys, the 1 in 5, will come up with objectification type of counterattack ideals, and resist the android wave.

John Bailo says

You would get to choose the make, model, and styling you want, with customization.

I like the topless convertible Ferrari type. That's my kinda girl.

Depends. Does it have the letter "R" on its body?

Robot love...not all wine and roses....

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You know, some women I have had sex with in the past were just like robots -with dead batteries.

A robot wouldn't make it more intimate than say with a blow up doll.
Or a fleshlight for that matter. With out another person in there, you're really just doing IT to your self.

CaptainShuddup says

A robot wouldn't make it more intimate than say with a blow up doll.

Captain, watch the Valerie 23 episode of the Outer Limits, posted above.

If that's not intimate then I don't know what is.