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The idea of robot sexual partners has been around since the beginnings of science fiction. Pleasure Droids, Sex-bots, pick your trademarkable. They are staples of the Cyberpunk genre and have become a fixture of modern sci-fi. The sexual drive is an extremely strong force in the human animal so it is no surprise we have sexualized virtually every technology developed or discovered.
Cough, cough. The internet. Cough, cough.
Sexual commerce is considered ‘the oldest profession’ because the sexual impulse is the oldest targetable market. Our primate cousins the Bonobos, who use sexual stimulation as commerce among their colonies, would seem to intimate it even dates back to before we were fully upright.
As our technologies continue to develop at an almost exponential rate, on both the hardware and software fronts, the prospect of a fully automated sexual android companion doesn’t seem all that far off. It would be an impressive technological feat to be sure but while some might hail the concept as a societal advancement, or at least an appealing kink, it is important to remember that technological developments are not automatically a positive simply because they are new nor are they the same as human…