Comments on: More Robot Sex

By: shelly

shelly — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 22:56:00 +0000

hi i am marred
to a radio and he is
so cool
and he can have sex
with me and if you are
wornding how
a high wave sinigel
i can not have sex
with a human
bkus i have the dissis
that if i do
me or the baby will
dye at burth

By: Dr.Whiplash

Dr.Whiplash — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 23:32:44 +0000

Everyone loves a sexy robot.

For you robot lovers out there, there is also:

From the “golden age” of adult films, you can’t beat the 1978 movie “SexWorld”. It’s like a Disney World vacationland for realizing your sexual fantasies.

It featured several top porn stars of the day, and it’s been called one of the best adult movies ever made.

Also there’s “Blade Runner” with sexy robots Daryl Hannah and Sean Young… The “Cameron” character from the “Terminator” movies… “Number 6″ from “Battlestar Galactica”… Angelina Jolie from “Cyborg 2″… Winona Ryder from the “Alien Resurection” movie… Alice (Milla Jovovich) from the “Resident Evil” series… Vanessa (Liz Hurley) from the Austin Powers movies who turned out to be a fembot… and “Seven of Nine” from the “Star Trek” series was essentially robotic, or at least was at one time…

By: Bleys

Bleys — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 07:48:26 +0000

I’ll guess that you could find people wanting to marry all sorts of inanimate objects already today. People actually do marry all sorts of animals in SE Asia (unconsummated spiritual marriages, I think, like “brides of Christ”?). People already want to marry anything, because marriage can mean anything to somebody.

I will be more interested when robots want to marry humans. I hope my Stepford wife doesn’t demand more sex than I can provide, or beat me, or leave me when I am aging more poorly than her. What can an organic man do in an inorganic woman’s world?

By: Jon

Jon — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 07:42:50 +0000

Am I the only one that got a copy of this movie and watched it because of your post?? Ha! Ha! Very cheesy, but the topless women more than made up for it!! I didn’t catch her name, but the lead actress was absolutely beautiful. I wonder what she looks like today!

By: jaguar

jaguar — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 07:25:43 +0000

Molly might not be familiar with Star Wars but images of the ‘robots’ C-3PO and R2D2 are easy to come by. C-3PO looks humanoid. R2D2 looks like a round domed white trashcan or vacuum cleaner. Within a few minutes of the opening of the film both ‘characters’ behave in a way that elicits empathy from viewers willing to suspend their disbelief (the fact is they were humans in costumes). The R2D2 character is interesting because he/it doesn’t have a ‘face’, doesn’t ‘speak’ like a human—only squeaks and beeps as a machine might and isn’t biomorphic. For anyone who has had a real passion for a classic car or enjoys watching the TV set to the exclusion of going out side into the ‘real’ world I don’t think it’s such a leap to imagine people actually coming to prefer interacting with benign robots rather than impatient fellow humans.
A.S. Byatts’ ‘Possession’ has one of the best examples of two well meaning adults misunderstanding each other for half a lifetime that I’ve ever read. Picards’ Star Trek is a fantasy but the most touching tales are the ones where the android character ‘Data’ has his humanity tested. The episode in which that very notion and the idea that he might be ‘sentient’ and no one else’s ‘property’ are put on trial play with the very essence of what it means to be a ‘free person’.
I’ve spent much of my life taking care of the very young and the very old. Both groups could very much benefit from having a benevolent companion. And I don’t think most people are seeking ‘sex’ from the internet—I think we want to connect in a primal, unbridled way and we just can’t figure out how to do that to our complete satisfaction in the meat world.

By: Bree

Bree — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 04:13:56 +0000

at the risk of being trite and unlettered :) what about Cherry 2000?

I remember thinking at first view of this movie one late night of insomnia some time ago, that every man should have to watch this movie. That was before I grew up though.

(back to quietly enjoying the website for me :) )

By: Molly Ren

Molly Ren — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 01:48:55 +0000

“I’ll offer a technical quibble, which is that the kind of artificial intelligence necessary to make a robot good enough to want to marry would be such a formidable technological breakthrough that we really would be living in an entirely different technological universe…”

I’m glad you brought this up, since this always stopped me when people made wildly optimistic claims like, “People will marry robots!” I always wondered what kind of person would want to marry what currently amounts to a giant sex toy, but never saw this brought up as a possible difficulty in the few articles I saw about it. Without having read the book, it sounds like Levy puts all human bonds on a rather insipid level. I wonder why that is?