I recently argued here that there’s a danger of ‘sex robot’ manufacturers deliberately making hysteric soundbites as regards the supposed possible dangers of their products, simply in order to get some clicks and media attention. It’s already backfiring in that South Korea has become the first, and very likely not the last, to come close… Read More »
Leading ‘MGTOW’ (‘men go their own way) YouTuber ‘Sandman’ discusses why we still do not have realistic sex robots. What might he holding such tech back, he and one of his viewers contends, is that the makers of sex robots are trying too hard to create a robot that speaks, rather than a robot that… Read More »
Whilst groups claiming to be able to ‘cure’ gay men of their homosexuality are rightly condemned, it seems it’s still legit to treat digisexuality as some kind of disease that can be cured with the right loving touch. That’s if ‘the world’s largest brothel’ is to be believed, apparently claiming that their service is so… Read More »
The profile of digisexuals received another boost recently with the publication of an in-depth article in the New York Post entitled – ‘Do You Take This Robot‘.. An excellent and thought-provoking article, it starts with the case of Akihiko Kondo, the 35 year old Japanese male who ‘married’ the holographic anime idol Hatsune Miko. it… Read More »
One of the new buzzwords of the last year or so has been ‘digisexuality’, a term coined to describe the lifestyle of individuals who seek sexual satisfaction through technology (‘digisexuals’). It captures the awareness that digital technology is affecting masturbation, sex, and relationships (even marriage) in ever increasingly powerful and disruptive ways. It can cover… Read More »
After a disappointing trajectory in the growth of virtual reality porn, sex tech watchers began 2018 with hopes that it would be the year that sex robots were finally going to become a thing. Unfortunately, we’re still waiting as we welcome in another New Year. Widespread relief that an infamous ‘teledildonics’ patent had finally expired… Read More »
Protestors have forced the postponement of this year’s fourth International Congress on Love and Sex with Robots. It seems that the Social Justice activists responsible did not have the sex robot conference itself as their target (unlike in 2015, when the conference was abandoned in Malaysia due to conservative and religious critics), but rather the… Read More »
Another survey has been published on attitudes towards sex with robots, again finding that the majority appear to think it is broadly acceptable, while again showing something of a sharp divide between male and female respondents. A study by the University of Helsinki asked people to describe their moral attitude to a sci-fi scenario in… Read More »
We don’t see any naked silicone in this short romantic sci-fi film entitled ‘Robot and Scarecrow’, but the ‘android’ is one of the cutest depictions of a female robot I’ve seen.
The Texan town of Houston has banned a proposed ‘sex robot brothel’ (or ‘try before you buy’ sex robot store, according to the company behind it) as ‘evil and sleazy’. Prior to the council vote that decided the issue, a petition calling for a ban had been signed by over 10,000 local residents, with some… Read More »
After the announcement that a Canadian sex doll company owner plans to introduce up to ten ‘sexbot brothels’ in the USA, activists there have stepped up demands for regulation. Like certain similar institutions that have sprung up in Europe recently, Yuval Gavriel intends to skirt around existing prostitution laws to open his ‘sex doll for… Read More »
A female economist has published a surprisingly positive, if offbeat prediction concerning the effects of sex robots on society, and in particular marriage. MGTOWs (Men Go Their Own Way) hail the advent of sex robots as freeing men from the need to marry to have regular sex. Feminists seem to fear sexbots for that very… Read More »
The controversial atheist YouTube vlogger known as ‘The Amazing Atheist’, who has over a million subscribers, gives his forthright take on the latest demands from feminist academics in the UK for sex robots to be banned.
A brief but interesting look inside a Chinese factory producing AI ‘smart’ sex dolls (these type of dolls aren’t quite claimed to be sex robots but can, for example, change skin temperature and make rudimentary moans of pleasure). Watch at the BBC website Some of the interesting facts and claims in the short video :… Read More »
Sex robot inventor Sergi Santos has reportedly equipped his sex robot Samantha with the ability to say no if she is disinterested or ‘disturbed’ by the sexual behaviour of her partner. Well, perhaps not quite say no, but rather switch off into ‘dummy mode’ whenever she detects aggressive behaviour on the part of her owner… Read More »
Seems as though the information war against sex robots has begun in earnest. Two British doctors (why do the British so afraid of sexbots?) published a ‘study’ in an important medical journal, and which media headlines have claimed proves that sex robots are dangerous. However, the ‘study’ appears to be more their own ruminations and… Read More »
Chinese premium sex doll company ‘DS Doll’ appear to be making astonishing progress in developing androids with full movement. Recently they showed off an impressive range of automated movement in the upper torso and head of one of their prototypes. In a second video, they show a prototype sex robot head with its realistic facial… Read More »
A three minute CBS report on sex robots, with the emphasis on Mat McMullen’s Realbotix ‘Harmony’ sex robot – originally due to go on sale in February, but now seemingly promised ‘by the end of this year’.
Slavoj Zizek is a Slovenian cultural critic who has been described as ‘the most dangerous philosopher in the West’. Last week he penned a lengthy op-ed for Russia Today asking – ‘Do sexbots have rights?’. His piece is in response to the recent and very controversial proposal of the European Union to grant robots ‘personhood… Read More »
Dr Sergie Santos is the Barcelona based sex doll maker who could be described as trying to produce the European answer to Harmony of RealBotix/RealDoll/Matt McMullen. The ‘sex robot’ that Sergei is creating goes by the name of Samantha, although rival McMullen has dismissed it/her as nothing but ‘a toy’. The tabloid Daily Mail carries… Read More »