I can envision some women buying a sexbot for the hubby.
Or getting one to share.
God, this thread makes me want to go live in a cave somewhere.
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!
Or you could just go get a divorce and quit bitching about your wife, already. Jesus Christ.
Man, after reading the post above, I was sure this was a Lisa Lampanelli joke.
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.
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.
I thought that was what the coal mines were for.
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.
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.
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”).
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…
Door, ass, etc. 
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.
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.
Paging Hal Briston… 
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.
Oh, I knew exactly what I was typing there, the entendre was entirely singular. 
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.
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.
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.