The success of the Channel 4 renegade-robot drama Humans — playing on AMC in the US — has gotten people talking again about what some see as the key question of our time:
Robots: How soon can we start having sex with them?
One of the more ardent cheerleaders of the coming “sexbotopia” is our old friend Heartiste, the floridly racist and woman-hating “pickup guru.” Weirdly, given his enthusiasm for the subject, he doesn’t seem all that interested in indulging in robot love himself. But he can’t stop chortling about the potential misery he thinks sexbots will cause for non-robot women.
Inspired by a recent Daily Mirror article predicting widespread human-robot sex by the year 2070, Heartiste pats himself on the back for being “the first warning about consequences from the coming sexbot revolution” — apparently he never saw The Stepford Wives — and declares that
sexbots present a real challenge to flesh and blood women and, ultimately, to the sustaining of civilization.
But Heartiste doesn’t seem terribly worried. Who needs civilization when you’ve got sexbots?
As Heartiste sees it, once the sexbots arrive the beta and omega males of the world, lacking the “game” necessary to charm manipulate attractive women into bed, will give up on real women and turn instead to sexbots. Fat chicks will be left in a sexless purgatory, and even the hottest of the HBs will have to work harder to gain the attention of alpha males, whom they will be forced to share with other women.
[I]n a sexbot saturated world, the pressure on women to look their very best for the few men left in the dating market who are still suitable mates will be immense. …
A typical American fatty with attitude to spare has no chance against a sexbot with a pretty face, a slender BMI, and a perfect hourglass shape.
A “slender BMI?” Apparently Heartiste, despite his obsession with the evils of fatness, doesn’t actually know how BMI works. I’m pretty sure robots, made mostly of metal, will end up weighing more than humans of similar shapes and sizes. So even a skinny robot will have the BMI of someone who is “morbidly obese.”
Heartiste being Heartiste, he ends his post with a racist sneer.
Prediction: The vast majority of sexbots produced for worldwide male consumption will be White women with a diverse palette of hair colors. Asian women sexbots will compete with Latin women sexbots for second place. I’ll leave it as an exercise for the reader which race of women will be least represented among the ranks of assembly-line sexbots. Hint: Black male sexbots will probably outsell this last category.
Heartiste’s commenters aren’t quite as enthusiastic about the coming sexbot revolution as he is.
Someone calling himself shartiste — ick — isn’t convinced that sexbots will cause flesh-and-blood women to start genuflecting to men.
[A]nyone thinking this will make girls shape up better check themselves though. The entitlement complex is ridiculous, they will just whine and continue eating. Only if alpha males start using these things will girls take notice, but if they could make a sex doll that can take a mans attention away from a flesh and blood PYT, the human race is doomed to extinction anyhow.
Jack finds talk of sexbots boring.
I’m so lazy that I will probably buy a male sexbot to fuck my female sexbot, and he can listen to her robotic nagging and her honey-do list BS.
PA points out one potential, er, obstacle to the widespread acceptance of sexbots. Hint: It’s jizz.
I remain sceptical about sexbots becoming anything more than an expensive novelty but I’ll remain open-minded on the subject IF they’re designed got hassle-free jizz-cleanup.
King, meanwhile, raises an even more skin-crawlingly icky objection:
Man engages in sex to see his will made manifest on a female body. Woman engages in sex to be the cause of his deep satisfaction, the vessel for his will. If you are fucking/getting fucked by a toaster, you may get superficial release, but it isn’t the profound satiety of causing flesh to transcend its biological strictures.
A fellow named DavidTheGnome suggests that Heartiste and the rest are;t thinking radically enough about the possibilities:
I wonder how long it would be till the truly monstrous deviants begin building giant, anthropomorphic sex dolls. Eight foot tall, mutli-wanged charivari, four armed mortal combat type sheeva outworlders and armored centaur trannies walking down main street, arm in claw with beaming human wretches.
So? If someone wants to have sex with giant Pokemon robots, who cares?
Arbiter raises a much creepier possibility, asking
If there ever would be a sexbot industry, would it be allowed to make tween bots?
Greg Eliot, meanwhile, probably speaks for many Heartiste readers when he asks
Couldn’t we just mess with the brains of real women a bit and flip a few neurons into Stepford mode?
Because that’s what these guys really want.
EDIT: Added links
Hah, they always seem to think that women won’t have their own sexbots, and if they did, wouldn’t prefer them to the likes of PUAs or MGTOWs. This always amazes me.
Or more likely, serious burns
[also your toast will taste icky; I’m not sure they’ve thought this through]
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These guys are more than welcome to their bots. Maybe then they’ll finally stop bothering us. I’ll be over here with my fellow fat bitches, eating the most delicious cake.
It is amazing how many memes Heartiste thinks he’s personally created and/or popularized. He’s also been taking credit for “cuckservative” recently.
Remember all the old sci fi flicks like Westworld…where the robots get ticked off and kill all the irritating humans…it could happen
I can’t help but think that every now and then one of these people must develop some degree of superego and see their words how the world sees them. At that moment I can only imagine they implode into a singularity of pure shame.
The future they imagine, in which people satisfied with a sex toy get it while leaving actual human relationships to those compassionate enough to appreciate them, sounds spectacular. Is there any way we can speed this up?
(On another note, can we talk more about the giant sexy Pokemon thing :X)
King finally admitted what we’ve been saying is really on their minds. Robots will not hold a misogynist’s interest. It’s not sexual stimulation they want. It’s abuse. And this commenter must be really bad in bed if he thinks that PIV sex is transcending biological strictures. If vaginas go into lock down when you’re near, you’re doing something very wrong.
You’ve got to love how these idiots don’t realize that their would be a market for male sexbots too. They don’t realize that many people actually want relationships that go deeper than just sex. They don’t comprehend that by the time we have the technology for sophisticated sex bots, we may very well have invented a pill or a non invasive procedure to get rid of fat (which would actually make thinness less desirable).
Heartiste? Now that’s a name I’ve not heard in a long time…
It just occurred to me that I thought roosh and heartiste were the same. I can’t believe there are two of these people.
Regarding his doll views. Ok surprise surprise many men like real human beings, and the ones that don’t should not be near real human beings. So I’m ok with this. There is no competition for most men that like real people. You know, my husband likes to be friends with me and talk to me and laugh with me. I don’t think we’re the only ones. Of course we’re old and boring but I don’t think we’re the only ones out there that like human relationships and company. Maybe we’re a dying breed? Nah.
“Eight foot tall, mutli-wanged charivari…” What does he think a charivari is? It’s a group activity, not something that is any number of feet “tall.”
How would “fat chicks” end up in a “sexless purgatory” in this world? They’d be sexing it up with their own bots! Why do these guys seem to assume that only female sexbots would be manufactured?
They can think of crazy 8-foot pokemon sexbots more easily than they can think of male sexbots!
Aren’t they kinda excluding the male sexbots here that women will be banging in this bright future of theirs? Seems like a paradox.
Because all engineers are men and all inventions are made by men. Therefore they’ll cater for men’s needs only.
Catering for an additional market of women would mean that all products for men would suddenly vanish for the same reasons that making video games for women makes Call of Duty vanish in a puff of smoke.
It’s MRA Capitalism 101.
Red Piller: “Women will rue the day we have sexbots of our own! They will implode from lack of sex and come crawling to us on their hands and knees!”
Women: “Sorry what was that? I was too busy having sex with my own robot. You go have fun with your latex vagina, I’m all good.”
Must not post a blowup doll. Must not post a blowup doll. Must not post a blowup doll…
(Unrelatedly, the cat just knocked my laptop off the bed and smashed it into pieces. Half an hour and a roll of duct tape later, it’s already fixed. Because wimminz can’t STEM, you know. =P)
That reply switched from present to future in two lines, didn’t mean to do that. Y’all know what I mean though.
They’re excluding male sexbots because they believe women without their men couldn’t afford them or be able to make them. Because women in their reality are stupid and lazy and yet rule the world.
I’d just like to point out that I’m shocked one of them even acknowledged the existence of male sexbots. As other comments have pointed out and always gets brought up on these particular stories, the idea that people who aren’t straight men would like to have sexy times with a sexbot never seems to cross their mind. Which, as WWTH points out, is because it’s not actually about the pleasure of having mutually satisfactory fun for them.
And I just gave myself a chill by thinking about that. Ick.
Women already have sexbots. In fact, they have most of the sexbots. Vibrator sales massively outweigh male sex toy sales. The engineering of giving women mechanical orgasms is considerably more advanced than the engineering of giving them to men.
Weirdly, despite this, the straight and bisexual women I know – whether possessed of a high HB number or not – often tend to seek out male sexual company anyway. It’s almost as if human beings enjoy being intimate with one another.
I, for one, welcome our sexbot overlords. I gratefully look forward to the day where I am free from the cat-calls.
The main thing that strikes me is this:
No matter how much they talk up the positive qualities of a sexbot(unspoken drawbacks notwithstanding), I always keep thinking that a chorebot would be a much better investment.
WWTH, you hit the nail on the head but didn’t go quite far enough in my opinion: this isn’t about sex. It’s about power. The ability to get someone to do what you want, especially if that person doesn’t want to do it, is something that our society teaches people to admire and to aspire to. These men have chosen to try to find this power in the sexual sphere, possibly because they can’t find it elsewhere in their lives.
This is, in my opinion, why PUA stories tend to dwell either on overcoming resistance, on coercing someone into unusual sexual practises, or on flaunting how much better the girls they’ve picked up are tham anything anyone else could pick up. It’s about power, either over women or over one another.
Sexbots can’t say no. This means that getting a “yes” from them is no demonstration of power, and therefore meaningless. They’re pointless for a PUA.
If I’m right, then there will presumably be a bias against paying for sex for the same reason. I don’t read PUA stuff if I can avoid it so I don’t know if this is the case – advise me, O folk with strong stomachs?
They think women have sex with men either because they’re mindless feminist sluts trying to prove a point or because they want to use sex to get something they want from their poor male victims.
Also, as much as I don’t want to sink to the level of bedroom jokes at their expense, I imagine they don’t realise that women get off on sex because they’ve never been able to make a woman get off on THEIR sex.
Ya know, this reminds me so strongly of those experiments where male turkeys will attempt to mate with a turkey head on a stick (if I remember correctly). No worries; these fellows are selecting themselves out of the gene pool.