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
In case anyone was wondering – Tim is in fact a dick. If that upsets you – I have something for you to suck on.
Tim has mastered the art of the single entendre.
@A_Pejic_Blog
My great grandfather was tortured for 100 days and nights for speaking of diversity in talent in 1635. True story.
@Tim
Take your dick and
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Oh Tim, could you possibly project any harder?
Oh, and you’re not welcome into the ‘feminist club’ or the ‘lesbian club’ because you are a misogynistic shithead, not because they are private organizations.
I like it better when the trolls can handle basic grammar.
Seriously, wtf is this tripe? “All current and past great discoveries were the result of 98% male brain and brawn”? Like, all great engineers and scientists are 2% women? They have a tiny, 1/50th size vagina? Wait, what’s the deal with the “current and past” bit? Will future great discoverers deviate from that percentage?
“The the remainder of society, you’re the gutter cream”? I mean, the metaphor performs the exact opposite function that it’s supposed to (shouldn’t it be “the gutter dredges”?), and the whole clause has the opposite meaning than what’s intended.
Seriously, Tim, your reach exceeds your grasp when it comes to basic writing skills. I’d finish off primary school before forming strong opinions; you’re clearly outta your depth.
Citation needed, champ. We covered the witch trials in my college European history class and I don’t recall any mention of discussing microprocessors or combustible engines. I don’t think you have the best grasp of history. Or basic biology for that matter. Since you still haven’t used your superior man brain to come up with a method for reproducing without ova.
Now for the viewing pleasure of everyone who isn’t Timmy, here’s some witches.
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@Tim
Meh, is that your best? Well, ur ugly.
You should definitely stick to ranting about brain power and men’s inventions, shine on, sweetie!
Bye – FLGBTQs. As always – you’ve been entertaining. We’ll chat in another month or three. Keep those breasts sharp and vaginas tight. You’ll need both in the gender wars to cum.
@Tim
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Tim, stop trying to make ‘gender wars’ happen! It’s not going to happen!
Does this mean a lesbian gif party would upset Timmy boy?
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@wwth
Yaaaaay me likes witches!!!! Got any gifs from Charmed?
My modem run out of wifi or something and I can only internet from my phone ????
Just ban Tim already.
.@wwth
Ooooooh me likes lesbians even more!! Love ’em all!!
@troll
Don’t let the door hit your ass on your way out, and stick to the flounce.
Kreator,
I wonder if that poster forgot that David the Gnome had a wife who he loved. She wasn’t thin and she appeared to be past the wall hitting age.
And who would ever want to build a “combustible engine”. Sounds pretty dangerous, and about as useful as a water-soluble umbrella. Oh, you meant internal COMBUSTION engine. Don’t worry, you’ll learn about them in middle school.
@wwth: your lesbian gif party needs, like, 900% more Ellen Degeneres.
ColeYote,
Here! Have some bonus Wanda Sykes too!
And it comes down to what we all already knew. They wouldn’t actually want a sexbot because they can’t abuse, degrade, or in any way violate or upset the sexbot.
Apparently if Hades was real his first act would be to eat us ????
While this was mentioned further upthread, I felt the need to mention that sexbots would probably not be “made of metal”. I mean, probably it would need to use a metal skeleton, but iron-aluminum alloys are likely to become cheap now that we know how to make them, and it’s fairly strong and lightweight. You’d probably want a very humanlike skeleton for maximum realism. And I mean a skeleton in the normal sense, not human-shaped “endoskeleton” case covered with fake skin. It would need sensors, but those would be very small. It would need a computer core and speech synthesizers, as well as servomotors to move the skeleton, a “power core” of some kind (fuel cells? rechargeable batteries?), and “lungs” to function as cooling devices (not to mention the side benefit of being able to fake heavy breathing). I have no idea how big those extra parts would need to be, but they almost certainly wouldn’t fill up the entire interior. Add in air or water channels to help carry the excess heat to the lungs, cover it with synthetic skin (mostly soft silicone is used these days, but better materials might be available later) fill up the unused spaces with an ultra-lightweight material such as aerogel, and voila… comparable to human weight, and possibly even somewhat lighter. Granted, they probably wouldn’t stand up to the abuse of extreme S&M all that well, but one could also make heavy-duty models for that purpose if it became a thing.
Also, robots which don’t need significant mass or to be able to take up tremendous amounts of abuse are generally made of plastic these days. So it’s not like the weight ever really needed to be a concern for those specialized in “everyday” purposes.
So…is he saying that only black men will buy black female sexbots, or is he being homophobic too?
@alaisvex
I think it’s a racist (Shock! Awe!) combination of “cuckolding” and “black women are ugly”
@Alais: I think you’re being a bit harsh, but you’re certainly on the right track. I would say that using a sexbot poses the same problem as paying for sex — there’s no conquest, no proving your manliness by imposing your will on another person. Men who have that sort of mindset also seem to feel that sex is worth less if the woman has an orgasm. Sex is supposed to be exclusively for pleasing a man, and the woman’s total submission is an important part of the pleasure.
Sort of implicit is the fear that you might have to make a serious effort to please your partner or she won’t stay with you. Also I think there’s the fear that if she has been with other men she’ll be thinking, “Dammit, George was so much better in bed than this clown.” If he can make the woman’s pleasure irrelevant, he can dismiss that thought. Insecurity is hard to deal with, and many men get a serious dose of it.