Over on Chateau Heartiste, everyone’s favorite racist pickup artist gasbag Heartiste excitedly reports on the a giant leap forward in the ongoing “Sexbot Revolution” – a Japanese company has a new lifesize sex doll that looks slightly less creepy than the creepy sex dolls now on the market.
Heartiste quotes a Daily Mail article on the dramatic new development, because where else would you turn for important news in science and technology other than the Daily Mail?
Orient Industry say their new range of dolls, made from high quality silicon, are so realistic there is very little to distinguish them from a real girlfriend at first glance. …
[A]dverts in the media boast that anyone who buys one will never want a real girlfriend again.
Thoughts in my head respond that the potential girlfriends of the world will not be heartbroken at the news that dudes who can’t tell the difference between a giant rubber doll and a real woman will be leaving the dating market.
Heartiste, however, is delighted, writing:
The dolls come with a “skeleton”, which means they can be arranged into any position. Any position.
I’m pretty sure you can already do that with Stretch Armstrong, at a fraction of the price.
The coming sexbot revolution — and make no mistake, it is coming — will have profound ramifications on social order and the functioning of the sexual market. To this day, people underestimate the effect the Pill had on Western society; multiply that effect by a thousand and you’ll get an idea of the subversive havoc mass consumable sexbots will wreak.
Of course, these new sex dolls aren’t, strictly speaking, sexbots. They’re inert human-sized, human-shaped sex toys that probably weigh more than me.
If you want to experience true interactive setbottery, you need to go virtual.
The video below shows just how advanced modern kissing simulators have become. Indeed, one would be hard pressed to tell the difference between the software demonstrated in this video and actual real world kissing.
The video below that, meanwhile, offers a glimpse of what technology has achieved in the realm of breast simulation, though sadly the current technology only supports one breast at a time. But make no mistake, the frighteningly wiggly and anatomically, er, improbable simulated boob revolution is coming! NSFW, obviously. And even weirder than the kissing video, if you can believe it.
Kissing:
Boobs:
Oooh, Cassie’s Major Domo, thank you for that image. I love Bava’s Black Sabbath, especially A Drop of Water. Scared the bejesus outta me when I was a kid and saw it on television. (I saw the American version, of course, which mangles The Telephone segment. Now I own the original on DVD.)
Any Rachel Ingalls fans here? She wrote an interesting sexbot story called In the Act. It’s in her great collection, the End of Tragedy.
Wow…I had no idea. Considering serial killers’ tendency to ‘rehearse’ things, that sounds ominous.
(My GF watches the ID channel, AKA the murder channel, nonstop. I was already morbid to begin with…)
@LadyMondegreen
Weirdly, the U.S. versions of both Black Sabbath and Black Sunday, after getting a Blu-ray releases (packaged together) in October, after the original European versions were released on Blu from Kino. A bit backwards from the way things usually go.
I do think the U.S. version of Black Sabbath has one plus point: putting “The Wurdalak” segment last. I have this thing about anthology horror films: I want the longest and most intricate segment to come last.
They objectify and denigrate women so they *don’t* have to be vulnerable with them. They put on the alpha male crap so they don’t have to be vulnerable with other dudebros.
. Other people are just ego supplies…So, no.
Also, I’ve know about Rachel Ingalls, but never read her work. Have you read Mrs. Caliban and do you recommend it? The idea sounds fascinating.
*known
Everytime sexbots come up, I get reminded of Cherry 2000. It’s almost like the dudes think that was a documentary.
Westworld doesn’t always spring to mind, but yeah I can see the relevance. 🙂
Westworld has a fascinating subtext about violent/sexual masculine fantasies turning on the fantasizers. Although we see a few women going to Delos (the general amusement park), Westworld and Medieval World seem entirely geared toward macho fantasies about screwing prostitutes and shooting/punching/slaying people with impunity and zero consequences. Eventually, the robots get sick of being these guy’s punching bags and turn on them.
I agree with Jared; this seems much more MGTOW-oriented than PUA. I could picture any of quite a few of the MGTOW crowd living quite happily with such an object on a houseboat somewhere far, far away.
The boob simulator is even better than the kissing simulator. xD
This sounds lovely. Is there a kickstarter going so that I can donate and help make this dream a reality for some lucky MGTOW? No need for thank-you gifts on this one; the satisfaction of knowing that a happy soul is living the dream, far away from an internet connection, will be enough for me.
Cassie’s Major Domo, I love Rachel Ingalls. I think she deserves to be much better known in the U.S. (her native country.) I think they appreciate her more in the U.K., where she’s lived for decades (as you probably know.)
And, yes, I’ve read Mrs. Caliban. I highly recommend it.
I’ve read everything by Ingalls, at least everything that’s been published in this country, and it’s all worth reading. The collections I See a Long Journey and The End of Tragedy and Mrs. Caliban are prolly my favorites, but it’s all good. Mrs. Caliban was my introduction to her.
(Mrs. Caliban is a novel. The others are collections of longish short stories, or novellas, or whateveryoucallem.)
If you take away the BS about the “pill” (stuipd effin Matrix… is there no end to the harm you cause?), this sounds like a dire warning about how our subjugation of sexbots will be our undoing. Maybe Heartiste is a prophet ahead of his time?
So… Let’s prevent this revolution
So… Let’s prevent this revolution
(dangit, I thought I deleted the non-link line… Lousy HTML Mammoth.)
I recently read an article (sorry, I can’t remember where) about men who have sexbots and have all but fallen in love with them, but they seem to have as little interest in the MGTOW bunch as they do in having a real woman partner. It seems to me that the MGTOWs are always doing a flounce and then looking back to see whether the woman are noticing. There’s always an element of “women are gonna be sorry I gave up on them” sour grapes to the MGTOW shtick.
I got lucky with the Google (after three pages of Sex Dolls for sale):
“But Pygmalion’s true modern heir might be Davecat, a man who lives in southeastern Michigan with three high-end sex dolls. His first purchase, which he named Sidore Kuroneko, he considers his wife; the other two—named Elena and Muriel—are just intimate friends. Though he didn’t sculpt them, they are his creations. He designed their bodies before they were manufactured and their personalities after they arrived. “There was never a moment when [Sidore]—or any doll, for that matter—was merely an object to me,” he told me when we spoke last year.”
http://www.theatlantic.com/features/archive/2014/08/a-straight-male-history-of-dolls/375623/
If I was going to get a robot for any purpose (ie not a sexbot, just a PA type robot) I wouldn’t want it to look like a real person. I’d want something like Astroboy. Like, why settle for reality when you can have anything.
I’d have thought sexbots would appeal more to people who are attracted to things that don’t exist (eg mythological creatures. I know there are centaur fetishists for eg) rather than for men who want women, where they will always be an imitation.
This makes far more sense than having a human shaped robot, assuming your primary goal is not to pretend you’re having sex with a person.
…And yet, I am strangely not threatened by the future “sex-bot revolution.”
I am a little skeeved out that Heartiste seems to think that this will somehow render human women obsolete, and that that would somehow be a good thing.
@ Grumpy…You know…for some reason, after having read that article…I see a rough parallel in what the purchasers of high-end sex-dolls do and I do.
…At 41 I still cuddle with a stuffed animal when not sleeping at the girlfriendo’s (and therefore cuddling with her).
One of my alters told me we needed to buy it when we realized we needed to divorce the ex. My alt was totally right, we needed something to cuddle.
It is, in a weird way, the same sort of category of thing.
However, I don’t use the giant stuffed toy bunny to achieve sexual gratification, thankyaverymuch…
At any rate, these guys aren’t just meeting a need for casual sexual gratification, there’s devices for that that cost a lot, lot less than the $2500 or so one of those dolls does.
They are actually…projecting an idealized relationship onto the doll.
It also reminds me of objectophiles. They often feel a sort of personality in the buildings or structures they fall for.
http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/in-excess/201307/intimate-and-inanimate
…And for all the TMI, you are welcome.
Thanks for the info, David. I think this insult to women as people will result in more harm to them to the, not less. I think the whole idea is horrible. The perverts who become involved with this are never going to have a full intimate human relationship. That is the future I suppose. I hope women will escape from all this and put up high walls to avoid the spread of the fetishization of women.
And for non-sexual (I hope) cuddling, many of us have kitties …
I don’t want a sexbot but I want robot versions of these
http://natashaharmeryear1.wordpress.com/2013/08/10/princess-mononoke/
http://www.bagpacker.info/jurassic-park-t-rex-eye/
http://www.fanpop.com/clubs/unicorns/images/4881826/title/unicorn-ready-fly-from-sea-photo
http://fineartamerica.com/featured/elvis-presley-ca-1950s-everett.html
Ok that last one… Yeah well you know ::blushes::
@blahlistic You are just using the bunny for physical comfort when not with significant other — when I was a child I had a pillow that I couldn’t sleep without. Davecat’s doll IS his SO. I don’t think he’s doing any harm and I’m not sure that would be true if he were with a real woman. But it is a bit … well, judge not …