Futuristic Sex Robots Now Just "Sex Robots" 602
High-C writes "With apologies to Futuristic Sex Robotz, the future is here, and her name is Roxxxy. Truecompanion.com has revealed their answer to the Real Doll, and it looks nice. The site is short on details, pictures, pricing info, but wow." NOTE: some of the above links are not work-safe, for many values of work. I stopped by this exhibit today at the AVN Expo (not officially a part of CES, but by curious coincidence scheduled to coincide; the old saw that porn drives tech isn't without merit). Roxxxy, though, was rather unsexily posed on a couch, not moving a bit — downright creepy, in fact.
This thread is worthless without pics (Score:5, Insightful)
Half a dozen links and I couldn't find one pic of the damn robot. If it was that "creepy" posing on the couch, how could you not at least snap a picture?
Seriously? (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:The Cylons were created by man (Score:3, Insightful)
...they rebelled.
Might want to play "All Along the Watchtower" to your sexbot -- if it starts dancing, you'd better watch out.
If it's an 8, I'll happily deal with the consequences...
WTC? WTF? (Score:4, Insightful)
From one of the articles:
Inspiration for the sex robot sprang from the September 11, 2001 attacks, when planes crashed into the World Trade Center in New York City, the Pentagon and an empty field in Pennsylvania.
Uh... I don't know what to say. I mean I really don't.
I bet that.. (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:Here's some images (Score:3, Insightful)
Also from the website:
Am I the only one that thinks that's just kinda creepy?
Although, maybe instead of war driving invention, maybe sex will do this time, and we'll get to thank the sex industry for inventing mind/brain copying and transfers into robotic dolls.
Re:O RLY? (Score:1, Insightful)
Yeah yeah yeah. You're a female. We get it. It's in your id, and you are constantly mentioning it. What do you want, a frickin' medal for having a vag or something? What an attention whore.
Re:We had sex robots for a long, long time (Score:5, Insightful)
$6000? For a giant Team America: World Police doll (Score:5, Insightful)
I know that the TCO of a couple mixed drinks, a venereal disease and eventual child support payments is more than $6,000, but I think your average buyer is gonna find that price tag pretty steep.
Especially when these things look like the fucking puppets from Team America: World Police!!
Friends don't turn friends into latex sexbots (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:Ending human trafficking for the forced sex tra (Score:5, Insightful)
But just like paedophilia the numbers on sex trafficking are blown out of proportion by the alarmists. In actual fact, the number of women trafficked to the west against their will for the purposes of sex is insignificant. People smuggling is a far more serious problem.
The majority of sex workers travel of their own accord, this is particularly prevalent with SE Asian women where there is little stigmata against prostitution. This is why you can find Thai and Philipina girls working in many cities such as Amsterdam, Dubai, Singapore and Kuala Lumpur. Most of these women make a hundred times what they do with a "real" job in their own countries and often go home rich. Even in Thailand, in Phuket the minimum daily wage is 209 Baht per day (A$8) and these jobs will go to locals before a farm girl from Issan, Phuket is one of Thailand's richest provinces whilst Issan comprises the poorest provinces so the average daily wage is lower in the Issan provinces. Now these women could work 10-12 hour days in a factory or farm for less then 200 Baht a day or they could work in a bar in Phuket and potentially pull between 1000 and 4000 Baht a night (A$30 to A$130) via prostitution, obviously not every night but the prospect of this kind of money is very appealing to a girl who has little education and few employment opportunities.
Re:We had sex robots for a long, long time (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:WTC? WTF? (Score:3, Insightful)
Maybe read the rest:
Yes, I did read that part, it makes it even more scary. I mean talking about recreating your friend who you lost in a tragedy as a sex doll? There are mental hospitals (and newsgroups) for this kind of behavior.
Re:O RLY? (Score:1, Insightful)
Yeah yeah yeah. You're a female. We get it. It's in your id, and you are constantly mentioning it. What do you want, a frickin' medal for having a vag or something? What an attention whore.
Well pardon me for taking pride in my gender. No, I don't want a medal, I just want the same respect you'd give any man on this forum. If I was techiedude96, it'd be a moot point -- But you get +5 insightful and I get a bunch of overrated mods because apparently there's a girl in the clubhouse (le gasp).
I'm a dyke... do you really think a few mods on some backwater geek website is going to deter me from continuing to call you people out for your sexist bullshit?
Re:O RLY? (Score:5, Insightful)
There's absolutely no problem with you being a girl. There are many girls on Slashdot, and I haven't ever seen that being a problem.
The problem with you, personally, is that you're very in-your-face about "I'm a girl, and that MATTERS!". That's what GP means by "constantly mentioning" and "attention whore". There's nothing wrong with identifying your gender when it's relevant to the topic at hand, but, judging by your post history, you're keen on dragging it into every discussion - and, if necessary, you will bend the discussion to do so. And you usually also do it in a deliberately provocative way to cause a gender pissing match. That's what annoys people.
Of all females posting to /. - which are surprisingly many, actually - and even out of quite a few who have explicitly identified themselves as lesbian or bi - you are the only one being singled out like that. You might consider if that is because of your attitude, rather than your gender or sexual orientation.
Re:It's about luxury, I guess? (Score:3, Insightful)
even just the per-use cost of a RealDoll is probably lower
Maybe, but then you have to clean up the RealDoll after each use. Prostitutes are self-cleaning.
I guess I could raise the option of hiring a maid for washing the RealDoll, but then this whole discussion might start to get a little weird.
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Re:Evidence & kudos to my NOW collegiate colle (Score:3, Insightful)
Stop it! Stop it, please! Why are you doing this to my beautiful language? Please, make the bad man stop!
Re:O RLY? (Score:2, Insightful)
I'm a dyke... do you really think a few mods on some backwater geek website is going to deter me from continuing to call you people out for your sexist bullshit?
I don't see you "calling anyone out" on anything, however you do seem touchy about gender issues. Moreover, I don't see what relevance your sexual preference has to the discussion.
Re:We had sex robots for a long, long time (Score:5, Insightful)
In the shower? There's your issue. Water is a horrid lubricant for that stuff. And if it was prelubricated... it was most likely water based.
So, basically that's all your fault.
And, you've never tried something decent. That was a $25 piece of shit doll. Try a $60 fleshlight, there's a big difference. Yea, not as quick as using my hand and cleanup etc is a pain in the ass, but the intensity of it is levels higher.
(yea, you creeped out yet? heh)
Re:O RLY? (Score:5, Insightful)
"Techiedude96" likely wouldn't say "It feels good to be a boy right now. ^___^"
Admittedly, that's mostly because we're a patriarchal society where it rarely if ever doesn't feel good to be a boy.
However, I think your post answered the question it begged - you can "feel good" by only spending $25 on a vibrator, with occasional batteries and lotion, and spending hundreds of dollars on a sex toy is "beyond you." Well, obviously.
Other people need more than bullets: both men and women alike. And you choose to rub in their faces the fact that they can't get off with pocket change, and you choose to bring gender into it by erroneously claiming that girls need spend less on sex supplies than guys.
That's sexist bullshit, girlintraining. And it's demeaning to a heck of a lot of people.
So you want to take "pride" in something that isn't an accomplishment (being female), while working to undo the accomplishments that have been made in the name of women, and sex, everywhere. Are you sure you're not working for a medal?
Re:O RLY? (Score:4, Insightful)
I've actually enjoyed many of your posts. They are often insightful. That being said, you DO seem to often mention both your gender and your sexuality quite often. We get it and most of us don't give a shit whether you're a man or a woman, gay or straight. Get over it and move on :)
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Re:holy shit (Score:5, Insightful)
And yet I'd rather have people fuck all the robot kids they want than have them rape real children.
Re:O RLY? (Score:5, Insightful)
I'm guessing this is a troll, but the fact that this is modded "Interesting" instead of "Troll" says something disturbing about slashdot. I can only imagine that a reasonable number of readers agree with it. Presumably embittered male readers.
So many things I could say, so let me pick the easiest: assets? Seriously? A neutral addition to the household, or a liability? How are they any more of a liability than YOU are, unless you are in fact suggesting that a woman's place is in the home and that "the skills that made them an asset in the past" are the only skills of value?
So rather than viewing women has human beings who you might want to share your life with, you're viewing them as a burdensome financial investment in exchange for sex. It's just barely possible that this attitude may go some way towards explaining the problems you've been having with women.
Re:holy shit (Score:5, Insightful)
Back when I was still forced into going, I remember a sermon my father's pastor gave about homosexuality, wherein he basically said that as long as homosexuals do not act upon their urges in any way, shape, or form, then they can be as homosexual as they want. Maybe not the same thing, but for some reason I was reminded of that sermon.
Re:O RLY? (Score:4, Insightful)
In general, Western women are just a pain in the ass to be around.
And how. I think what we're seeing here is the inevitable overcorrection from feminism. Women convinced themselves they're entitled to anything and everything due to the oppression of women in the past. The problem is that it only leads to more oppression when you make yourself helpless.
If a good gyndroid cost $10,000, it would be considerably less than a man spends on a woman when amortized over ten or fifteen years. Frankly, a gyndroid would be a real bargain.
We're very far away from that. So far, it is still necessary to go out and find someone you can stand to be with. IMO, the biggest obstacle is puritanical views on sex programmed into all of us westerners (realize it or not) that tell us that sex is something it isn't. It prevents you from having sex with your friends, the people you should be having sex with, because of the likelihood that you will make sex into something it isn't, fly off the handle, and ruin a friendship.
I do have to say that I am fucking appalled by most women's inability to cook. Are they planning to marry a chef, or just eat in restaurants for the rest of their lives? My lady is a chef, and I still have to cook occasionally; you'd think more women would want to learn. But as you say, most of them don't know a fucking thing. This tendency is worst in the most attractive girls, who have guys fighting to support them. But in a world with divorce, that's not a valid plan for later life. When the beauty wears off, as it does for most women (especially those who spend a lot of time eating restaurant food) then they'll find themselves floating home.
Re:holy shit (Score:3, Insightful)
What is unhealthy is that they are likely to want the real thing eventually. Take for instance the straight male that gets one of these - it may placate him when he gets randy but it is only going to increase his appetite for more.
Why would it? Seriously, I don't think something like that will happen. More likely, we'll get a whole lot of robophiles who will breed themselves out of existence.
Re:O RLY? (Score:3, Insightful)
get a water-based lubricant like KY. The stuff also works a treat when you need a wank.
If you hadn't had the end of your penis cut off, you wouldn't need KY to wank.
Presumably circumcision wasn't your decision, but bear this in mind if you become a father.
Re:O RLY? (Score:4, Insightful)
I really hope I'm just feeding the troll here, because the alternative that it might be genuine is horrifying. I don't think I've ever read a bigger load of misogynistic tripe in my life. That 8 people at time of posting thought it was worth upmodding frankly scares me.
Women are not angels. They are not cooks, they are not money whores, they are not 'skilled life companions'. They are *people*. They are all individuals with different desires, loves, lusts, skills and minds.
Making love with a partner is not about just jamming a vibrating piece of plastic or your dick in her and expecting her to writhe with desire for you. Making love is as much in the head as it is the physicality of it. Building a relationship is not about exchanging money for sex, cooking and 'raising well-adjusted kids'.
I feel sorry for you, and I feel sorry for the women in your life, that you see them as just after the money in your wallet; that romance is about counting up how much the bill costs.
Yes, some women are not very nice people, just as some men are not very nice people either. But it's one thing to be an asshole, and it's another thing to then classify hundreds millions of women as all self-centered money-grubbing liabilities.
If a good gyndroid cost $10,000, it would be considerably less than a man spends on a woman when amortized over ten or fifteen years. Frankly, a gyndroid would be a real bargain.
If the only thing you're getting out the relationship is bad sex with a fucking sextoy, and all you're thinking about is complaining about how much it costs you; then yes, you're damn right you'd better off with a gyndroid. At least it won't care when you think of it as a piece of meat put on earth just to satisfy *you*.
Re:holy shit (Score:4, Insightful)
Much, much, MUCH better a pile of metal and plastic shaped like a 13 year old child than a REAL 13-year old child.
I agree, but these religious types do not actually care about the victims, they care to tell people what they can and cannot do, i.e. they want to tell you what to do, think and believe. So having sex with a fake child is about as bad in their eyes as having sex with a real child.
Re:I think there might be a reason for it (Score:1, Insightful)
All joking aside, I think the strong reaction by women against love robots for men stems from a perceived difference in what sex means for men and women.
I think it's actually a lot simpler than that:
If a real gyndroid (which this isn't -- the folks at AndyDroid [andydroid.com] are making a far more sophisticated device) ever became popular with men, the free ride is over for women.
There appears to be little that terrifies a woman more than the thought of living alone her whole life. I don't understand it, but I've certainly observed the behavior often enough.
If a real gyndroid hits the market, men will discover that they can, in fact, have a significantly less expensive artificial female around that provides the same or better emotional support than a human woman.
This means that a lot of women are going to be alone. Forever.
This frankly scares the shit out of them. They react with hostility toward anything that might upset the current status quo (i.e. being abusive toward a man while simultaneously getting him to buy expensive trinkets for her).
I hope the real gyndroid comes soon. Its widespread adoption is the only thing that will convince Western women to change their behavior.
Re:holy shit (Score:3, Insightful)
What is unhealthy is that they are likely to want the real thing eventually. Take for instance the straight male that gets one of these - it may placate him when he gets randy but it is only going to increase his appetite for more. hat makes you think a pedophile would be any different?
So you think pedophilia is 'curable'? It's not more curable than say, homosexuality is. It's a sexual preference. If that's not what you meant, how do you figure that getting an outlet for ones urges somehow makes a person even more desperate? In my head, it's kind of the other way around.