Posted on 07/14/2018 9:29:17 AM PDT by EdnaMode
The creation of artificially intelligent sex robots that resemble humans has provoked a heated debate about the social and health consequences.
Meanwhile, the market for talking and moving robots made for sexual pleasure is on the rise, with makers from across the world selling them for thousands of pounds.
One implication discussed by experts is their capacity to induce addiction to sex.
Psychological therapist Dr Thaddeus Birchard told Daily Star Online that life-like robots featuring AI could be another outlet for sex addicts to express their compulsion.
Dr Birchard, clinical director of the Marylebone Centre for Psychological Therapies, said a sex addict is comparable to an alcoholic in that they’re seeking escapism.
Although cyborgs might not necessarily increase sex addiction, Dr Birchard said, they serve the same purpose as alcohol for people with drinking issues.
“It would just be another way of expressing sexual activity or addiction,” Dr Birchard, author of Overcoming Sexual Addiction – A Self Help Guide, said.
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Awesome movie. Very dry and not for everybody but boy did I love how that movie just kept building. Great cult film.
Mitch McConnel is a sex robot. At least he seems mechanical enough to be.
I can imagine the range of hygiene issues these things will develop.
#MeTooBeepWhiiiiiiir.
“A friend wants to know if Amazon has them yet?”
Yes, and they’re all Amazons.
$10K for the bot, and another $10K for the sanitizing machine.
Put them in jails and stop the rapes. You never know. Maybe women have more use for them. Then there are the men who are chubby chasers. Pay extra for those.
Mitch McConnel is a sex robot.
Ahnold needs a special robot with mini-sockets because of all the steroids.
How would thsee robot people differ from people who masturbate 10 times a day?
That seems boring, to engage in a mechanical activity with a machine. How much more interesting to tussle around with a real live mind-blowing wife.
Back when Darryl Hannah was hot.
Greatest SciFi soliloquy ever...
Not guilty.
Looks like Phoebe Cates.
“If you really prefer a latex fake chick to a fun companion, I’m seriously disappointed in your whole gender.”
Latex fake chicks are never disappointed.
Neither are pet rocks or stuffed animals. I’d rather someone funny to laugh at life with. No one can have sex every minute of every hour.
Never Disappointed,,,
and don’t want to “cuddle.”
“The Lonely” (13 Nov. 1959) with Jack Warden as a lone prisoner on an asteroid, is gifted a female robot by his jailers to keep him company. One of the best Twilight Zones.
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