I’ve read that high-end sex dolls are only growing in popularity these days. The manufacturers keep engineering more and more lifelike units that look and feel like flesh-and-blood humans. I imagine there are dolls available today that can even regulate their temperature so that their flesh feels humanly warm to the touch. With today’s technology, it also ought to be possible to market a doll that sighs and moans and shouts, “Yes! Yes!” when you have sex with the doll. At this point, I’d like to solicit comments and reaction from anybody out there who owns and interacts with one of these lifelike dolls (note that inexpensive inflatables don’t count for this discussion). I would love to try one of these out for myself but for two factors. One is that I cannot justify spending the better part of ten thousand dollars on such a thing. The other is that I have nowhere to hide such a doll when my girlfriend or daughter visits me. Another thing that makes me reluctant is that dolls are mute and have only the personality that their owners imbue them with from their own imaginations. Even the best imagined conversation I might have with the doll would be completely predictable from my side. There would be no element of surprise whatsoever. And this brings me to my main point. Technology marches on, and at some time in the future, dolls will become available that have an AI-generated personality, and can carry on a real conversation, as well as move about animatronically. This evening I saw a sci-fi movie titled “Ex Machina” for the first time. Sex-with-a-robot is just one of the themes of this movie. Its themes go way deeper than that. Is the robot an actual conscious being, deserving of being more than somebody’s sex toy? And BTW the special effects that the film employs to render the robots are jaw-dropping. Two other movies I’ve seen that deal with romantic relationships with robots are “Her,” where the protagonist falls in love with a disembodied computer voice, and a 1995 episode of “The Outer Limits,” titled “Valerie,” in which a robot that serves a disabled man becomes jealous when he falls in love with a real woman. Who can watch such stories without them seeding hot private fantasies in one’s own mind? Would you have sex with a lifelike robot given the chance? Can romance with an artifact ever challenge the experience of romance with a real person? What responsibilities do we have to artificial beings that we emotionally engage with? Each of us might someday have to decide these questions for ourselves. What a world.
I don't have one but if I were single and going thru a cold spell I might buy a rubber torso to use instead of wanking. Don't know about you but I need to get the poison our every few days or the balls start to hurt and groan.
