SciFi Dreamgirls
If we’re being honest, nerd culture’s fascination with sexbots and fembots and all manner of mostly-humanoid mechanical sex partners has an uncomfortable proximity with the rapey and toxic-to-humans notion that sex would be easier and more fun if your prospective partner lacks the will or indeed the ability to tell you to bugger the fuck off. There’s more to it than that, of course; in fantasy, these robot sex partners are designed for fucking, so consent is either irrelevant or built-in along with the capacity to do sexual things better than merely human women. But the fact of an “on” switch and and “off” switch and “programming” is at least part of the appeal of these mechanical partners. Certainly that’s so for the operators and enjoyers of the fembots from SciFi Dreamgirls, who seem to be forever opening access panels and tinkering with the programming of these already-willing mechanical girls to make them even more pliable and compliant:
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Philip K. Dick had a great porn name. It’s surprising that no one in porn, to my knowledge, ever borrowed his name.
Michael Moorcock books drew a lot of attention when I read his stuff at school.
“f we’re being honest, nerd culture’s fascination with sexbots and fembots and all manner of mostly-humanoid mechanical sex partners has an uncomfortable proximity with the rapey and toxic-to-humans notion that sex would be easier and more fun if your prospective partner lacks the will or indeed the ability to tell you to bugger the fuck off. ”
This is very true, but it strikes me as a self-limiting problem.
O, not if they’re also smart enough to have cloning tech as well
The uncomfortable proximity to consent-issues is certainly true, but it’s also a good medium to play out consent issues (I’m thinking of classic science fiction like Asimov here).
Also, I guess a big part of the appeal of the whole sci-fi Sexbot/Fembot/(almost any bot)-Genre is the Mad-Science angle. Or in other words: From a story standpoint, a sexbot is interesting for about 5 pages – a sexbot that rebels against its programming fills an entire book.