The Orgasmatron Exists

[mundens]

When Will You Get Yours, and When Will You Connect It to the Internet?

Sex with robots

Yes. Of course we will. Some of us do now. We call them vibrators.

One step up is the implanted spinal cord stimulator:  It's been reported since 2004 that a device originally designed for chronic pain control and urinary issues can stimulate orgasm in women — even individuals who thought they'd lost the ability to have them. The appliance is no bigger than a pacemaker, can be wired into a woman's lower back in a physician's office under local anesthetic, is FDA approved (for "bladder problems"), and can be run by remote control. Ask your doctor.

Will you be prepared when she asks you to trigger this device over the Internet in a loving act of telepresent titillation? What happens when this "Orgasmatron" is triggered by intelligent software, in tandem with some fairly straightforward force-feedback actuators, and both are driven by, similarly simple, biometric sensors under some rather rudimentary fuzzy logic?

Answer: the romantic robotic partner.It's not much further along the technology curve to build this package into interactive machinery with humanoid appearance and, well, "feel." Or non-humanoid, if she's feeling adventurous.

Read more that would make the Unabomber mad, and David Gelerntner say "I told you so" at LiveScience

Comments

[tatjna.livejournal.com]

I've wondered about the ethics around sex robots for a while. I think most people would be ok with robot sex, and I think plenty would be ok with AI robot sex, but what about if the robot were to resemble a child or a sheep?

(i have no idea, but thinking about it interests me)

Speaking of motorised toys, any chance I could borrow your chainsaw on the weekend to chop some wood for Mum?

[mundens.livejournal.com]

In the case of an AI robot, I think it would have to consent!

But if it's just a robot, why should anyone care what it looks like? I know that people would say "it might lead to the real thing" but they say the same about violent video-games, and yet actual figures show that players of violent video-games are less likely to commit violent crime than non-players. Still, I'm sure there will be all sorts of moral crusaders trying to prevent the sale of three-foot-tall sex-bots, even if they are being sold to midgets.

Happy to lend the saw, though can't vouch for it's cutting power, last time I used it I think it was getting a bit blunt.

[tatjna.livejournal.com]

I have a file. ;-)

I'll get in touch about how to retrieve said saw..

And yeah, why should anyone? But I bet people will. And since when did facts ever get in the way of a good healthy moral panic?

Admittedly, I'm not sure how I feel about it - I guess my big concern wouldn't be so much it leading to the real thing in individuals, but more a perception that sex with kids is ok that could develop in society though saturation.

And then the little voice in my head says "Who decided that the age of consent is 12/16/18/whatever it is where people live, and by what criteria was the decision made? And why is sex hidden from children so that they aren't knowledgeable and equipped to deal with it when they become reproductively capable, which is when they start wanting to do it?"

Which is why the topic and the ethical concepts that spring to mind when I think about it are so interesting to me.

[repton-infinity.livejournal.com]

There are, I believe, countries in the world – I don't know if New Zealand is one – where artistic depictions of children having sex are considered child pornography and prosecuted as such. And other countries where it is legal (modulo general "obscenity" laws).
(see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Child_pornography#Artificially_generated_or_simulated_imagery )

[xhile.livejournal.com]

i thought of the Motorhead track. Which i am not sure actually has anything to do with your post. :)