Food for Thought: Love and Sex with Robots

[ExaltedK9]

As always, excluding the sex bit, it's an interesting idea, I suppose.

You get to design your perfect partner from scratch, to all of your specifications.

Love?
Probably not.
But it'd be comfortable, I suppose, and that's the best some of us will ever do.

That's depressing....I don't get it though, the entire concept of a robot partner just seems un-natural. People that can only hope to be loved, by building a robot to their specifications, is sad.

But I guess it's also reality...

 

[NeutralDrow]

Wow. 62 posts in and no one's mentioned Chobits?

Sex with robots doesn't sound that implausible. Love dolls already exist, after all. Love (at least, the romantic and intimate sort implicitly assumed), on the other hand, is far over the horizon. That would absolutely require intelligent robots in order to be anything but a shallow sham at best, insanity at worst.

 

[Gunstar Hero]

Anyone who has seen "Number 6" in Battlestar Galactica will know what i mean when i say I would have no problems, what so ever, in having an awful lot of sex with a robot.

 

[Gerazzi]

No... just no...

agreement!

 

[ScarlettRage]

This is but one of the many issues that sex with robots can bring.

hahaha thats why i think i perfer sex with people (boys lol cause im a girl )

 

[Shepard's Shadow]

I have little faith that people from this forum would be able to register this topic in their brains maturely, but I figure I'd give it a try.

And to specify, I'm not talking about terminators or androids. Think along the lines of perfectly human-looking robots.

A while ago there was this author on the Daily Show with Jon Stewart who wrote a book called Love and Sex with Robots. I have no read the book myself and forgot 98% of the interview (closer to 100%, ugh) But I want to get the general opinions of you people.

tl;dr version: Opinions on the subject on the topic title.

That is all.

I'm not opposed to the idea. But how human are we talking about, are we talking have lives of there own human or built for love and realtionships? or perhaps the android from Alien Resurrection?