BAN the ROBOT WHORES, says robot whore expert: 'These AREN'T BARBIES' An expert has called for a ban on sex robots, saying that their introduction will, in some unspecified way, increase the damage to society caused by prostitution. Chatting with The Register, Dr Kathleen Richardson PhD contended that the possible AI sex droids of the future would strongly contribute to the continuing miserable …
"[...] or has a medical accident and can't perform, or something?"
An elderly friend had had a husband who suffered circulatory problems that put him in a wheelchair and eventually killed him in his forties. Before he suffered early onset dementia he encouraged his wife to take a lover.
"Well, I for one would wish she'd GET some carnal instincts and experience a bit more of life, so she can learn more about what she's spouting a load of uneducated hot air about."
Well said. Just one thing to add: "Satisfaction". Aussie made. Only three seasons. WATCH IT.
She said that use of sex-bots is deeply connected to the use of prostituted women.
Really? Sexbots have been around for a few thousand years have they? I think she means prossies had better find a new career.
Reminds me, who has gone to A & E claiming to have falled under their Roomba. They're the robotic equiv. of vacuum cleaners.
"Reminds me, who has gone to A & E claiming to have falled under their Roomba. "
In Scotland many years ago a stag night would sometimes end with the groom and a farm milking machine.
A nurse girlfriend once recounted the A&E case of an unfortunate man who had failed to recognise the potential problem with a Babycham bottle's shape.
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"No-one is currently pining for cruxifiction and witchburn bots yet except maybe medieval terror trolls ISIS [...]"
You have cast your net outside Europe. Therefore you are including the crucifixion fetishists in the Catholic Philippines. There are "witch" burnings in Africa - as well as Indonesia and South America.
http://nypost.com/2015/04/03/filipino-devotees-nail-selves-to-cross-in-crucifixion-reenactment/
http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/igwe20140530
I've seen this on several online publications today. This woman appears to assume that such devices will be produced only to satisfy the needs of heterosexual males. I suspect that models will be available for all tastes and genders (if any at all are.) For the record, I have no interest in using these things for their intended purpose if any are ever built. However I would be happy to contribute code for appropriate remuneration.
If they became semi-commonplace - say, about the same as the more exotic sex toys today - it's not hard to imagine a community of sexbot hackers online exchanging printable upgrade designs and new programming. People mod their PCs for cosmetic reasons, so think what you could do with a sex-bot. However exotic your tastes?
Fan of Avatar? Then you'll want to get your stock Cherry 2000 model, download a new voice pack and behavioral profile, print yourself a new facial plate. The skin is going to be harder, but you should be able to order roboskin intended for animal displays, and the eye lenses along with them. Might be a bit of a hack job, but doable.
Just think of what the furries alone would do! And then go bang your head against a wall until that image departs your mind.
Richardson turned away from the actual issue of banning robots - stating again that sex toys, and sex robots, exist because of prostitution.
Exist because of prostitution? Oh please, doc, you cannot be serious. That is just too unbelievable to be acceptable, methinks.
And here is Dr Kathleen Richardson, lecturing an audience on Will robots take over the world?
Robot Totty must:
a) Look like the real thing (or not, if you want to go All Soryama, All Night).
2) Do whatever one wants behind closed doors enthusiastically instead of screaming and throwing kitchen implements one's way whenever one says "how about a fashion show?"
#) Not phone anyone afterward to "tell all".
Once those Three Laws of Robot Crumpet are in play we can safely move human partners to where they want to be: raising kids (or not) and focusing on work (or not). Whatever, other human beings will not be needed for quick, fun, naughty/kinky sex and neither will they need bribing with dinner and flowers for "undergoing" same.
I see no downside, and I'll take the Cherry 2000.
A modern Pinnocchio?
Like "Key the Metal Idol"? No, wait, she was no robot after all. Or was she?
At the moment and for the foreseeable future I think this idea of banning what amounts to very expensive and complicated vibrators is completely bonkers but this is a question we might need to address one day. Assuming NK doesn't cause us to nuke ourselves back to the dark ages at some point we'll probably actually crack AI and we'll end up with machines that express emotions as we understand them and a desire for continued existence. In fact in all ways that can be measured they will effectively be alive. Would it still then be ethical to have one just for your pleasure? I would probably argue that it isn't. While they are still as dumb as (and about as attractive as) your toaster though who am I to stop you!
"Would it still then be ethical to have one just for your pleasure?"
The Blade runner ethical question. The Robert Heinlein 1947 hypothetical court case of granting a chimpanzee human rights in "Jerry was a man" has apparently just been enacted in real life.
http://www.nonhumanrightsproject.org/2015/04/20/judge-recognizes-two-chimpanzees-as-legal-persons-grants-them-writ-of-habeas-corpus/
A sex-bot does not need to express emotions as we know them. A sex-bot needs to be able to mimic emotion sufficiently well to convince a user who is already trying to convince themself. That's not such a hard goal.
The tricky part is going to be programming it to carry out the two-minute conversation that counts as foreplay and accurately interpret commands from an operator who might be uncomfortable stating outright their desires.
No.1 Given the number of sex toys sold to females as opposed to males I'd question who is more likely to buy one.
No.2 If they could create an android that could provide emotional support and a physical relationship what makes people think males would want them more then females?
No.3 I've never really understood the fuss, perhaps the would would be a better place if males used sex toys as much as females?
Also there are actually a fair few of us (and I suspect our number grows) who have failed so far to actually find another person that fits into their existence correctly and could do with some kind of partner.
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