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Dan8267 says

Sex bots are not the future. It would be cheaper and a better (more addictive and thus more profitable) experience to have virtual sex through a subscription model app that directly stimulates neurons in your brain. Why build robots or a holodeck, a one-time sale, when you can get customers to pay per view. Customers will also prefer the infinite variety that a pure software solution provides. This is how business works today. You don't sell a product. You sell a service. It's more profitable. Plus it's harder for people to copy your intellectual property.

It would be cheaper to implant electrodes in your brain to directly stimulate pleasure centers at orgasm level 100% of the time.

Heraclitusstudent says

It would be cheaper to implant electrodes in your brain to directly stimulate pleasure centers at orgasm level 100% of the time.

But that's not what people would want. There are people who suffer from having dozens to hundreds of orgasms a day -- both men and women -- and none of them like it. It's highly disruptive to life and makes them social outcasts because they can't be anywhere around children given our society's puritanical view of sex.

Furthermore, mere orgasm does not fulfill the complete emotional repertoire people want in short-term or long-term romantic relationships and affairs. True virtual reality indistinguishable from reality, like The Matrix, would satisfy all fantasies.

On the down side, people would work just enough to pay for their service, so the GDP might plummet.

Dan8267 says

On the down side, people would work just enough to pay for their service, so the GDP might plummet.

downside for our corporate masters perhaps, but not for the people enjoying the service.