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Should you have sex with robots? Experts weigh in
CNBC ^ | November 4, 2015 | Arjun Kharpal

Posted on 11/04/2015 10:42:29 AM PST by C19fan

Should we be having sex with robots?

It's a question that has sparked fierce debate among moralists and the robotics industry. And it turns out, they're all split on what role machines should play in future relationships.

During a discussion at the Web Summit technology conference in Dublin on Wednesday, experts warned about the dangers of getting intimate with robots.

(Excerpt) Read more at cnbc.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: robots; sex
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To: gogeo

I did see something in Penthouse Forum 30 years ago about a blender


41 posted on 11/04/2015 11:16:25 AM PST by CGASMIA68
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To: CGASMIA68

The subject is Howard, the masters degreed engineer that designed the space toilet and is a bonafide astronaut on the Big Bang Theory


42 posted on 11/04/2015 11:17:59 AM PST by bert ((K.E.; N.P.; GOPc.;+12, 73, ....carson is the kinder gentler trumping.)
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To: C19fan

I guess the day is coming when WD-40 gets marketed as a personal lubricant.


43 posted on 11/04/2015 11:20:32 AM PST by Stormdog (A rifle transforms one from subject to Citizen)
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To: C19fan

Bender: You really want a robot for a friend?
Fry: Yeah, ever since I was six.
Bender: Well, OK. But I don't want people thinking we're robo-sexuals. So, if anyone asks, you're my debugger.
44 posted on 11/04/2015 11:20:38 AM PST by Trillian
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To: C19fan; Bender2
"...Will Laz volunteer for a case study on the effects of robot sex? :)..."

Or, Bender...:)

45 posted on 11/04/2015 11:23:09 AM PST by rlmorel ("National success by the Democratic Party equals irretrievable ruin." Ulysses S. Grant)
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To: Stormdog

They put it on the tin-man’s jaw first...that is vaguely unsettling!


46 posted on 11/04/2015 11:26:37 AM PST by rlmorel ("National success by the Democratic Party equals irretrievable ruin." Ulysses S. Grant)
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To: C19fan

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wTq7_lkAIV0


47 posted on 11/04/2015 11:27:49 AM PST by butlerweave
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To: C19fan

Avoid the one named Niska


48 posted on 11/04/2015 11:28:41 AM PST by NonValueAdded (In a Time of Universal Deceit, Telling the Truth Is a Revolutionary Act)
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To: C19fan
I don't care how adults get their sexual jollies. Blow up dolls have been around for ages - now robots? I find it sad that the LGBT types define their existence and self-esteem through sex. Do they not have any higher thought process or purpose? Are they so locked into their primal lust that they have no further worth? Exceptions excluded.

Disclaimer: While I can sorta, again sorta, understand why some women would be attracted to each other when men can be such selfish lovers and emotional pigs, I don't understand non-flamer gays that don't appreciate the phenomenon that is the female body. I've absolutely adored the form, smell, touch, taste, sounds, and emotional and sexual sensuality of women since I hit puberty and still do. Standing by for in-coming...

As I have espoused for years: I don't care what the 2% LGBT community does behind close doors as long as they don't push their perversions in our faces (think parades) and political agendas on us 98% straights. Yet they continue even though having become a "protected class".

Sheesh, just STFU, do each other, do your robots, and leave the rest of us alone.

49 posted on 11/04/2015 11:29:00 AM PST by A Navy Vet (An Oath is Forever)
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To: bert

Looks like the long rumored AJOM. [:-)


50 posted on 11/04/2015 11:30:53 AM PST by mcshot (The "Greatest Generation" would never have allowed the trashing of our Republic.)
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To: rlmorel
WTF?
51 posted on 11/04/2015 11:30:54 AM PST by AngelesCrestHighway
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To: C19fan

how did they become experts?


52 posted on 11/04/2015 11:30:55 AM PST by morphing libertarian
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To: Stormdog
"I guess the day is coming when WD-40 gets marketed as a personal lubricant."

Killing me!

53 posted on 11/04/2015 11:31:34 AM PST by A Navy Vet (An Oath is Forever)
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To: C19fan

The article says nothing about the self pleasuring toys that exist and the virtual reality experiences that are on the way. I am actually very interested in what will happen to society when men discover the ultimate bodily pleasure from these new pleasurers, combined with the realistic sense from the virtual reality, with the gorgeous woman of their choice.

Will men never want real women again? Will women be more considerate of men because of it? Will it be good for society if men are spending a lot of their time in “ecstasy,?” Will they be more or less focused on saving the world and making homes for their families? Will removing the “need” to find sex partners make men appreciate the reality of companionship more? Or say “Aw, fuhgeddaboudit”?

These are really serious societal questions. We may not like it, but women have shaped human development because men wanted us. I believe it was good for civilization. I wonder how this will affect it, and this is coming now. Whoops, didn’t mean to end on a pun.


54 posted on 11/04/2015 11:31:39 AM PST by Yaelle
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To: C19fan

YEAH, BABY!

55 posted on 11/04/2015 11:33:43 AM PST by Hugin ("First thing--get yourself a firearm!" Sheriff Ed Galt, Last Man Standing.)
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To: morphing libertarian

FWIW I am writing a book in which synths can provide fuull service as personal assistants on and off the job. The technology will include tissue development and response capability in which their eyes light up to indicate the human has pleasured them. Over time I show the development of these capabilities.


56 posted on 11/04/2015 11:34:22 AM PST by morphing libertarian
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To: Uncle Miltie

If my wife were to pass on and I could get one that looks like a specific woman, I would get one. What the heck? It’s a lot quicker than going through the whole dating/courtship thing again. At my age I’m not ready for that much effort.

My top choices:
1. Jennifer Aniston
2. Shania Twain
3. Faith Hill


57 posted on 11/04/2015 11:36:10 AM PST by rfreedom4u (Rick Chollett for President!)
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To: rfreedom4u

And it should be kosher as well?


58 posted on 11/04/2015 11:38:52 AM PST by A CA Guy ( God Bless America, God Bless and keep safe our fighting men and women.)
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To: All
Robot sex----that's a good campaign issue for Hillary.

"A vote for me is a vote for a Fully-Fornicating Society.
I pledge non-stop aggression over the unborn.
I will end the punishment of an unwanted birth."

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HILLARY'S DEBATE STRATEGY Plans to showcase her "kind-heartedness and compassion;" dedicated to sucking-up to the snarling abortion worshippers. Will use the classic Democrat MO---upping the political ante to pump her sagging numbers.

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DEBATE PLAYBOOK Hillary knows the genital-sniffing Planned Parenthood abortion worshippers who populate the Dem party are crazy over the Clintons......Bill and Hillary are the living breathing embodiment of The Fully-Fornicating Society w/ none of the evidence of sexual activity.....the "nuisance" of an actual child being born.

Bill gives sex-obsessed lefties a vicarious thrill....visions of the married, gray-haired Clinton getting a young WH intern to crawl under his desk to give him a BJ is better than Viagra.

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As Hillary debates, subliminal pictures of Hillary cuddling her baby
grandaughter will be flashed on the screen.....just for a nanosecond.

59 posted on 11/04/2015 11:40:01 AM PST by Liz
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To: cymbeline
"A hand is not a robot, is it?" Bruce Campbell photo: smart bruce6.png I like to call mine `mechanical'. Ash
60 posted on 11/04/2015 11:40:06 AM PST by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives.)
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