Sex mannequins will come to life.
By Raif Karerat
WASHINGTON, DC: As humanity’s natural rhythms become further inundated with the influence of technology, one academic believes people may soon be having sexual relationships with robots.
Dr. Helen Driscoll, a sex psychologist, said “sex tech” is advancing at such a rate that by 2070, physical relationships will seem primitive, reported the Daily Mail.
Sex mannequins that you can order online already exist, and rapid advances in technology will enable them to ‘come to life’, according to Driscoll in a blog entry for the Huffington Post.
“As virtual reality becomes more realistic and immersive and is able to mimic and even improve on the experience of sex with a human partner, it is conceivable that some will choose this in preference to sex with a less than perfect human being,” said Driscoll, who is a senior lecturer at the University of Sunderland in the United Kingdom.
In addition to having physical relationships with machines, impending advances in artificial intelligence could enable machines or even computer programs to become realistic enough to fall in love with.
This may seem shocking and unusual now, but we should not automatically assume that virtual relationships have less value than real relationships,” wrote Driscoll.
For those already in an intimate relationship, she warns that the psychological impact will depend on how they handle the co-existence of real and virtual relationships.
“Most people successfully integrate other forms of virtual reality into their lives, but virtual sex — not to mention love — will be seen by some as infidelity, and this will present real challenges to some relationships,” Driscoll noted.
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…man every time I see one of these articles I have to have a bit of a giggle… honestly, how in the heck are we getting to the point of men wanting to favor sleeping with a machine versus a real woman?
We are striving for a society of equals between the sexes, but I think this is more a case of parents needing to make sure they ensure their child develops relationships with both girl and boy friends growing up. That is more inline with the times where the stereotype of the woman stays at home and the man works is long over. That genie is out of the bottle now, this advice applies to both girls and boys – I being a guy had girl friends growing up a few of my friends did become closer relationships – but for me I favored dating people outside that circle as face it they were my anchor and I didn’t want things to be awkward … that changed in high school but hey that is what happens to us guys…
For the record I am a nerd and was a nerd for my whole upbringing. Oh I have had some serious crushes and heartbreaks during that time. I kept to my own small group of friends (guys and girls) and had a few short relationships with the girls who were in my social circles later in high school just fine. Some even of the FWB (Friends with Benefits) category. Believe it or not we are all still good friends and things were not weird or nothing afterwards which was fine… the bad crushes and heart stomping I took from others oh my did it hurt at times…
Eventually I met my first long term girl friend we had two years of a good relationship and then years of absolute lies, best to say ‘she could not keep her legs closed’ those last years were the absolute worst for me. Compounded with her not being able to commit to stay or leave. Eventually it completely ended and I ended up entering the ‘online dating’ realm. It was not a bad experience as I got to meet some very interesting people and eventually I found my lovely wife of four years.
I didn’t know she was in China at the time (her friend who already was here had made her a posting after the guy she was into turned out to be using her as a distraction from his present wife) not a mail order bride thing I eliminated that when I found out and confirmed it was not an agency thing …instead she was just very much like me a hurt person looking for a loving and honest partner. I figured I had nothing to lose and at least I would get to travel overseas and see China and she was a perfect guide, we were married after two years and are enjoying year four of happy and honest marriage.
We have the typical rough patches like we want out of my condo I own but that whole bubble thing wiped out the equity and I don’t want to take a loss so I am waiting things out while we put money away. She is anxious to have kids now and I am more timid to wait until we get in house but like real life marriage has its compromises… point here is if we have a problem we speak to each other and don’t judge each other… that I think is why her and I get along so well… we actually communicate!
…Lesson to be learned her ladies you need to be honest with your guys and not lie or assume we ‘just know’ or ‘should know’ what is eating you… if there is a problem say so, else don’t be pissed off at us if we don’t ‘get it’… we are simple creatures us men. Guys if you are a cheater and still in a relationship do yourself and your partner a favor and end the dead relationship versus living a lie!
This nonsense about “sex robots” has got to stop.
Young men need to get into sexual relationships with young women through dating – and they need these experiences for their healthy personal development. The skills a man acquires from sexual relationships don’t exist in isolation, but they play an integral role in his ability to deal with women competently in the rest of life.
These skills even matter in your relationship with your mother, believe it or not. Many involuntarily celibate, adult virginal men (called “incels” on the internet) will tell you that their relationship with their parents deteriorated in their 20’s when the parents saw that their sons couldn’t attract women.
And women these days seem inclined to evict more and more young men from having sexual relationships because women prefer to have their early experiences with the minority of bad boys, cads, jerks and thugs who appeal to female emotional immaturities. Women turn to the nerds for boyfriends and husband prospects later, reluctantly and without enthusiasm, because the math doesn’t work out for the kinds of men women prefer. Hence all the sexless marriages, female infidelity, cuckoldry and wife-instigated divorces we see in developed countries.
Which assumes that women even bother with the nerds at all, when the modern welfare state and ridiculous make-work for women in government agencies and corporate HR departments remove the need for husbands as providers. The trend towards sexual eviction has progressed so far in Japan that reportedly a quarter of unmarried Japanese men in their 30’s have remained virgins, despite Japan’s proximity to other Asian countries with sex tourism industries. Japan has a funny way of living “20 minutes into the future,” so we should study what happens there to see sexual tends in other developed and developing countries.
So why would anyone consider sex robots a good idea? It would just exacerbate the trend of creating an even bigger population of psychologically stunted adult virgin men who can’t function outside of their parents’ basements.
No, responsible people need to call out this abomination and explain how badly it would damage men. The whole idea shows a real lack of respect for men by saying that they don’t deserve relationships with women and they can’t do any better than to jerk off with machines.