# increasingly sophisticated sex dolls for men **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [February 1, 2010, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/increasingly-sophisticated-sex-dolls-for-men/527258 "2010-02-01T16:39:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![River\_Hippie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/river_hippie/32/26_2.png) [@River\_Hippie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/River_Hippie)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2010, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/increasingly-sophisticated-sex-dolls-for-men/527258/41 "2010-02-02T01:33:29Z")
I can envision some women buying a sexbot for the hubby. Or getting one to share. ---
**Author:** ![Tanaqui](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3bc359/32.png) [@Tanaqui](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tanaqui)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2010, 2:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/increasingly-sophisticated-sex-dolls-for-men/527258/42 "2010-02-02T02:41:26Z")
God, this thread makes me want to go live in a cave somewhere. > [@](#): > > Real women will have to compete with them, possibly requiring some rather significant changes in what is expected from real women in a relationship. Sorry to harsh your boner, but if sex bots are close enough to humans to be indistinguishable from actual women, then male sex bots would be indistinguishable from actual men and I would be getting laid a lot more. We could all just go fuck some plastic. Sounds great to me! > [@](#): > > But is it really so hard to believe that there are men out there who’ve been the major breadwinner from almost the moment the ink was dry on the marriage certificate, who give a darn sight more than they get (or need) in return as far as emotional comfort goes, and whose sexual needs could hardly be worse met if it was by a robot? Or you could just go get a divorce and quit bitching about your wife, already. Jesus Christ. ---
**Author:** ![bump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7c8e57/32.png) [@bump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bump)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2010, 2:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/increasingly-sophisticated-sex-dolls-for-men/527258/43 "2010-02-02T02:45:10Z")
> [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](#): > > On a much darker and seedier note, Man, after reading the post above, I was sure this was a Lisa Lampanelli joke. ---
**Author:** ![Savannah](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b3f665/32.png) [@Savannah](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Savannah)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2010, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/increasingly-sophisticated-sex-dolls-for-men/527258/44 "2010-02-02T02:58:41Z")
> [@TGWATY](#): > > [Inventor unveils $7,000 talking sex robot - CNN.com](http://www.cnn.com/2010/TECH/02/01/sex.robot/index.html?hpt=T2) Dear god, I’d hate to be the man looking forward to seeing that expression. She–er, it–hasn’t reached the uncanny valley for me. ---
**Author:** ![Green\_Bean](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/green_bean/32/1760_2.png) [@Green\_Bean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Green_Bean)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2010, 2:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/increasingly-sophisticated-sex-dolls-for-men/527258/45 "2010-02-02T02:59:37Z")
> [@River\_Hippie](#): > > I can envision some women buying a sexbot for the hubby. Huh. Now that’s actually a good point. “Here. _She_ won’t expect you to have showered sometime in the past few days before you lay down on top of her.” Excuse me…I have to go start working on “stepping it up a notch” so I can catch a man after the sexbot apocalypse. ---
**Author:** ![Grumman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/43a26b/32.png) [@Grumman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grumman)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2010, 3:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/increasingly-sophisticated-sex-dolls-for-men/527258/46 "2010-02-02T03:25:08Z")
> [@billfish678](#): > > Sperm generally don’t bring their own paychecks along. I thought that was what the coal mines were for. ---
**Author:** ![Mrs.Cake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/2acd7d/32.png) [@Mrs.Cake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mrs.Cake)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2010, 3:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/increasingly-sophisticated-sex-dolls-for-men/527258/47 "2010-02-02T03:41:34Z")
So basically, if we can’t expect men to bother putting out after the sexbot apocalypse (thanks **Green Bean** ), there isn’t really a lot of reason to keep many of them around. Just the minimum necessary to provide adequate genetic diversity, kept in safe, comfortable harems…wait, I saw this movie. It had John Saxon, I think. ---
**Author:** ![umop\_ap\_sdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/dbc845/32.png) [@umop\_ap\_sdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/umop_ap_sdn)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2010, 4:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/increasingly-sophisticated-sex-dolls-for-men/527258/48 "2010-02-02T04:29:47Z")
I’m glad I’m not the only one who is skeeved out by this doll. Kind of makes me want to never have sex again. Seriously, who wants to have sex with what appears to be a nearly vegetative stroke victim? (And not even an attractive one at that?) Guys, does _this_ really get you all hot & bothered? 😕 ---
**Author:** ![Der\_Trihs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/der_trihs/32/233_2.png) [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2010, 5:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/increasingly-sophisticated-sex-dolls-for-men/527258/49 "2010-02-02T05:12:17Z")
> [@umop\_ap\_sdn](#): > > I’m glad I’m not the only one who is skeeved out by this doll. Kind of makes me want to never have sex again. Seriously, who wants to have sex with what appears to be a nearly vegetative stroke victim? (And not even an attractive one at that?) Guys, does _this_ really get you all hot & bothered? > > 😕 I’ve pretty much seen a reaction of :eek: from men when this story comes up. ---
**Author:** ![Shakester](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shakester/32/437_2.png) [@Shakester](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shakester)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2010, 7:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/increasingly-sophisticated-sex-dolls-for-men/527258/50 "2010-02-02T07:06:41Z")
Sexbot, no. However, when you can purchase a clone that’s physically human but has no higher brain function, and requires the same amount of care and feeding as a pet… _then_ women will be in trouble. Big trouble. If there’s anything that will put women out of business, it’s biotech, not cybernetics. If we can iron out the ethical issues. ---
**Author:** ![Cesario](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ecae2f/32.png) [@Cesario](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cesario)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2010, 7:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/increasingly-sophisticated-sex-dolls-for-men/527258/51 "2010-02-02T07:20:19Z")
> [@Shakester](#): > > Sexbot, no. > > However, when you can purchase a clone that’s physically human but has no higher brain function, and requires the same amount of care and feeding as a pet… _then_ women will be in trouble. Big trouble. > > If there’s anything that will put women out of business, it’s biotech, not cybernetics. If we can iron out the ethical issues. I think there’s room enough in the world for both your conventional sexbots and your bio-engineered catgirls. Either way, my prospects improve what with both options side-stepping the ethical issues I face (as Dio aluded to, though I’m not sure I like the characterization of “much darker and seedier”). ---
**Author:** ![Noone\_Special](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/noone_special/32/2863_2.png) [@Noone\_Special](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Noone_Special)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2010, 7:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/increasingly-sophisticated-sex-dolls-for-men/527258/52 "2010-02-02T07:22:45Z")
I don’t think SexBots will be putting **women** “out of business” (:rolleyes:[noparse][/noparse]) any time soon – but I can definitely see a **realistic** SexBot (i.e., about 4 technological generations down the road from this one) having a profound impact on the \*\*prostitution \*\*market. Probably in the general direction of driving “street walkers” out of business (replaced by pay-by-the-hour Bot Salons?) while possibly emphasizing and driving the more “upscale” “escort” market… ---
**Author:** ![Malacandra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Malacandra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malacandra)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2010, 7:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/increasingly-sophisticated-sex-dolls-for-men/527258/53 "2010-02-02T07:24:48Z")
> [@Tanaqui](#): > > God, this thread makes me want to go live in a cave somewhere. Door, ass, etc. 😛 > [@Tanaqui](#): > > Or you could just go get a divorce and quit bitching about your wife, already. Jesus Christ. Who’s bitching? I love my wife and have no wish for a divorce; I merely refute the suggestion that the partnership can be shown to be beneficial in profit/loss terms (or needs to be). An analogy: if I give my kid a couple of pounds pocket money a week, and once a year he presents me with a card that he has bought with his own money, I am touched and delighted, but you’d have to be demented to think that I’ve somehow gained on the deal. ---
**Author:** ![Shakester](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shakester/32/437_2.png) [@Shakester](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shakester)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2010, 7:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/increasingly-sophisticated-sex-dolls-for-men/527258/54 "2010-02-02T07:52:11Z")
> [@Noone\_Special](#): > > I don’t think SexBots will be putting **women** “out of business” (:rolleyes:[noparse][/noparse]) any time soon – but I can definitely see a **realistic** SexBot (i.e., about 4 technological generations down the road from this one) having a profound impact on the \*\*prostitution \*\*market. Probably in the general direction of driving “street walkers” out of business (replaced by pay-by-the-hour Bot Salons?) while possibly emphasizing and driving the more “upscale” “escort” market… I should point out that I was not actually being 100% serious in my post, I was parodying some of the earlier posters. I don’t actually think sex-bots or sex-clones would put women “out of business”, nor do I believe that a cloned woman with no higher brain function would _ever_ get past the “ethical issues” and actually reach the marketplace. However, leaving aside reality and delving into the counter-factual for a moment, if there _was_ a viable alternative to human females for sex, I’d be all over it. There isn’t, as I have zero interest in either prostitutes or penises, and I have to say that sex-bots really don’t appeal either, and I don’t see that changing in my lifetime. ---
**Author:** ![Malacandra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Malacandra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malacandra)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2010, 8:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/increasingly-sophisticated-sex-dolls-for-men/527258/55 "2010-02-02T08:00:39Z")
> [@Shakester](#): > > However, leaving aside reality and delving into the counter-factual for a moment, if there _was_ a viable alternative to human females for sex, I’d be all over it. Paging **Hal Briston** … 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Shakester](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shakester/32/437_2.png) [@Shakester](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shakester)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2010, 8:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/increasingly-sophisticated-sex-dolls-for-men/527258/56 "2010-02-02T08:24:21Z")
> [@Shakester](#): > > …if there _was_ a viable alternative to human females for sex, I’d be all over it. There isn’t, as I have zero interest in either prostitutes or penises… OK, before anyone else points it out, obviously many prostitutes _are_ human females. I just don’t have any interest in mock-affection, from a bot _or_ from a prostitute. ---
**Author:** ![Shakester](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shakester/32/437_2.png) [@Shakester](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shakester)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2010, 8:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/increasingly-sophisticated-sex-dolls-for-men/527258/57 "2010-02-02T08:26:10Z")
> [@Malacandra](#): > > Paging **Hal Briston** … 😃 Oh, I knew _exactly_ what I was typing there, the entendre was entirely singular. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2010, 10:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/increasingly-sophisticated-sex-dolls-for-men/527258/58 "2010-02-02T10:01:18Z")
Oh no, not another fugly sexbot. “Not while there are dogs on the street” remains my answer. For me (and this is really an academic matter, as I’m married), this device would only become really interesting at the point where it was (or appeared) truly sentient, but paradoxically, at that point, I would become more interested in conversing with it than shagging it. ---
**Author:** ![DianaG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/7ab992/32.png) [@DianaG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DianaG)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2010, 2:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/increasingly-sophisticated-sex-dolls-for-men/527258/59 "2010-02-02T14:03:39Z")
The idea that anyone would consider what you get from this thing to be “sex” is profoundly depressing. I find it entirely unsurprising that anyone unable to make the distinction between masturbating with an exceptionally fancy toy and “sex” isn’t getting much. ---
**Author:** ![billfish678](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7bcc69/32.png) [@billfish678](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/billfish678)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2010, 2:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/increasingly-sophisticated-sex-dolls-for-men/527258/60 "2010-02-02T14:17:33Z")
Think about this. Long ago, and even NOT so long ago, women had very few rights and very little power. How many men treated women REALLY badly (in various ways)? Then they started getting some power, rights, autonomy, opportunities… Do you think the social interaction between men and women changed some? At least between some subset of the populations? In my mind there is NO doubt that some women use the access to putang as a serious social/financial negotiating tool. And for some men, its not about the making of mini me’s, or the sparkling conversation either. Its pretty much for access to and use of something that feels good. You’ve got the consumers that are interested in that form of consumption and the providers that are willing to provide it, though often at a cost in one way or another. Its seem pretty apparent to me that really good sexbots could change that dynamic. Now whether they DO, or do some in any significantly way is certainly open to question. But I think the folks that even deny the possiblity of it are living in moral/ivory/wishful thinking towers. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/increasingly-sophisticated-sex-dolls-for-men/527258.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/increasingly-sophisticated-sex-dolls-for-men/527258.md?page=4)