to not see a problem with men using robots for sex

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Yes, its a bit sad and perverted, but I can't see how a glorified sex doll hurts anyone. I would be horrified if a sex doll looked like a child. However if a really sad sexually frustrated man masturbates with a sex doll that looks like a grown adult, no one is getting hurt.

I don't think it that robots will be sophisicated enough to replace a real spouse in my life time.

I do remember Mudd's Women, but I'm not sure of the relevance here - aren't the women in that story just real women who have been made artificially irresistibly beautiful?

No, Harry Mudd (an intergalactic Arthur Daley type) found a planet where female robots had been left to exclusively provide pleasure to visitors (presmuably the butch men doing space-stuff women weren't capable of). He traps Kirk & Co, but they manage to trick the computer (it is after all a female brain) and take control of the planet. As a punishment, they leave Mudd on there, but have reprogrammed the robots to all act like his ex wife.

On a thematic level, it's the sorcerers apprentice. On a cultural level, it shows how far we have/have not (delete as applicable) come from the 1960s. Would such an outrageously sexist storyline be acceptable today ? (If not, how do we explain "Humans").

Oh, and before "Humans", Charlie Brooker broached the subject in an interesting and sensitive manner in the "Black Mirror" episode "Be Right Back" which aired over two years ago.

You can just see it....

Daily Mail women's section Aug 2020

"Where have all he good men gone?"

At home with their 100 inch tv, Xbox and sexbot that's where.??

I'd never buy a sex bot. My girlfriend would never give me a go.

VoyageOfDad

You are quite right. I was thinking of I Mudd.

If I have ever classed myself as a sci-fi nerd, I would be mortified.

Luckily I don't

I'd never buy a sex bot

How about a box set ?

Ah right, I was thinking of the same episode as VoyageOfDad.

Can't imagine how they keep them [fleshlights]clean though!

The other end comes off them so you can run water straight through them. You can use soap on them and disenfectant if you like.

Of course another view (could be) ,that this topic merely highlights the fact that Anglo-Saxon/British/English culture and society is absolutely terrified in any way/shape/form of sex, and would much rather it didn't happen at all.

I'd be curious to know how other cultures - European and beyond - might be debating the issue ? (I would also speculate that the only thing the English fear more than sex is foreign languages ....).

Lurking, are you kidding? Buffy really has the measure of the situation here.

This isn't about a prudery towards sex, this about the damaging aspects of reducing the female form to a voice-less, opinion-less passive female shape with appropriate holes for sticking ones penis into.

Voyage come back to me when men have been culturally and sexually oppressed by women for thousands of years, k thx. Further oppressing the minority by reducing a female "body" to the stereotype of a silent object is not in the same league as "won't somebody thing of the men??"

However, personally I think a sex robot of either gender is creepy and de-humanising.

"Won't somebody think of the men" even.

I'm very passive during sex. If I try anything too risqué while having sex it makes it harder to concentrate on the book I'm reading.

However I am a considerate lover as I always take care to angle the book away from DH's face so he doesn't bump his nose.

I always got rather good marks for my Women's Studies coursework at university. I have a copy of The Madwoman in the Attic on my bookshelf.

But if they ever make an Aiden Turner stud-bot I'll be buying three (one to use, one on charge, and one in the repair shop for the copious amounts of wear and tear).

Lurking, are you kidding?

"Of course another view (could be)..."

Why ? Could that not be a view ? (Notice I didn't actually say what my views are).

I have a copy of The Madwoman in the Attic on my bookshelf

So do I !!!!!!

One day, I'll even read it .

Me too. Looks well impressive though, don't it

Mine's right next to Vindication of the Rights of Women by Wollstonecraft

Vindication of the Rights of Women by Wollstonecraft

Ah, there's a book, and an icon ! I only got Madwoman because it was referenced in a book I read detailing the lives of the pre-Raphaelites, and I am a massive Dante and Christina Rossetti fan. To the extent that I've been to the Rossetti family tomb in Highgate !

Of course, sexy robots are hardly news. I can guarantee that even if you have never heard of Fritz Lang, or "Metropolis", you will immediately recognise the definitive still from the movie ....