Futuristic Sex Robots Now Just "Sex Robots"

High-C writes "With apologies to Futuristic Sex Robotz, the future is here, and her name is Roxxxy. Truecompanion.com has revealed their answer to the Real Doll, and it looks nice. The site is short on details, pictures, pricing info, but wow." NOTE: some of the above links are not work-safe, for many values of work. I stopped by this exhibit today at the AVN Expo (not officially a part of CES, but by curious coincidence scheduled to coincide; the old saw that porn drives tech isn't without merit). Roxxxy, though, was rather unsexily posed on a couch, not moving a bit — downright creepy, in fact.

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holy shit

[Anonymous Coward]

whoever buys one of those is fucked in the head

I will order 13.

Re:holy shit

[LoRdTAW]

Yea I too was wondering if I could order a 13 year old model.......oh wait, never mind.

Re:holy shit

[shutdown -p now]

You joke, but it's a really good questions. A "seemingly 13 year old" sex robot would definitely be illegal in UK, for example, but what about US? If it would be legal, I can't wait to see the shitstorm that happens when someone actually has one made.

Re:holy shit

[KDR_11k]

And yet I'd rather have people fuck all the robot kids they want than have them rape real children.

Re:holy shit

[aliquis]

You can get mine when I've broken her in.

http://www.sparkcaster.com/demotivational/images/welcome%20to%20sweden.jpg

Re:holy shit

[aliquis]

I can't wait to see the shitstorm that happens when someone actually has one made.

Why? It's not hurting anyone.

If it's someones dream to get to have sex with a child / someone in early puberty isn't it much better if they can play out their dream on a robot instead of a human?

Re:holy shit

[ultranova]

whoever buys one of those is fucked in the head

Given that the website refuses to show me their products unless I give my contact info first, I suspect that getting fucked is indeed going to result from doing business with them - and not in the good way.

Besides, we already have sex robots, they simply aren't human-shaped.

Re:holy shit

[shutdown -p now]

Why? It's not hurting anyone.

I didn't say I am opposed to the idea. It would just be rather entertaining to watch. US already had CPPA unconditionally ban simulated child porn, but SCOTUS found those provisions unconstitutional; however, this didn't seem to have much publicity. I just think that the look on the face of some Southern senator, when he realizes that it is perfectly legal to e.g. draw two kids having sex, much less sell it, would be priceless. Even more so that, in light of SCOTUS decision, this would require a Constitutional amendment to get it changed (but then again the nature of the topic is such that they might just be able to get this done, and very quickly, too).

Re:holy shit

[bigtomrodney]

Or how about considering that it's clearly not a healthy state of mind and remedying it with counselling or therapy. Do you think that encouraging them through the use of robotic surrogates will cure them or allow them to move further into and become more comfortable in their sickness?

Re:holy shit

[selven]

But if they're only harmlessly having sex with robots, what's so bad about that "unhealthy state of mind"?

Re:holy shit

[aliquis]

Seriously if you are turned on by a thing do you believe that some therapy can cure that?

Make you understand that it's not accepted by society and that you shouldn't do it, sure, but lose the attraction?

Also there is an issue with age, over here in Sweden you are allowed to have sex with 15 year olds, in some countries it's 18 afaik. But don't plenty of people reach puberty at say 12-13 or such?

So even more normal men who are just turned on by fertile females may still fall into what people see as pedophilia.

Should they be protected against the monsters which are men? What do I know.

Re:holy shit

[aliquis]

Or masturbate to rape porn.

Re:holy shit

[chrb]

There's a bit in the Real Dolls documentary where they're talking to one of the creators of Real Dolls and ask about the weird requests that they have turned down. Young people is the obvious one. They also had a dog breeder who wanted a Real Dog because he was "tired of hurting his dogs". And how about the guy who sent in photos of his pensioner mother asking if they could make a Real Doll of her?

But when it comes to real controversy, as usual the Japanese already got there first.

Re:holy shit

[vanilla_face]

What is unhealthy is that they are likely to want the real thing eventually. Take for instance the straight male that gets one of these - it may placate him when he gets randy but it is only going to increase his appetite for more. hat makes you think a pedophile would be any different?

Re:holy shit

[Golddess]

You and me both. The problem people will be those that feel they have some sort of divine (or otherwise) responsibility to shame and/or punish pedophiles just for being pedophiles, even when no child is or would have been harmed.

Back when I was still forced into going, I remember a sermon my father's pastor gave about homosexuality, wherein he basically said that as long as homosexuals do not act upon their urges in any way, shape, or form, then they can be as homosexual as they want. Maybe not the same thing, but for some reason I was reminded of that sermon.

Re:holy shit

[selven]

What is unhealthy is that they are likely to want the real thing eventually. Take for instance the straight male that gets one of these - it may placate him when he gets randy but it is only going to increase his appetite for more.

Why would it? Seriously, I don't think something like that will happen. More likely, we'll get a whole lot of robophiles who will breed themselves out of existence.

Re:holy shit

[Anonymous Coward]

You and me both. The problem people will be those that feel they have some sort of divine (or otherwise) responsibility to shame and/or punish pedophiles just for being pedophiles, even when no child is or would have been harmed.

I've always felt that what will finally bring debate to all the "think of the children" insanity involving porn/pedos/drawn images/etc. will be the development of realistic gynoids capable of sex. It won't matter who invents them first, even if it's a country and/or company that won't make a child model available, someone will do it (if nothing else there would be a great market for a schoolgirl one in Japan). And once that happens the "think of the children" zealots will of course instantly condemn it as virtual child abuse. But this time there'll be a lucrative market (that's very obviously not harming anyone, much less a child), so there will be more support for fighting back. (In particular companies selling non-child sex gynoids will have a vested interest in not allowing any type of sex gynoid to be banned by legislation, because they know there's plenty of zealots that'd want to see them ALL banned.) And all this will bring the debate out into the public, and most of the public's going to start wondering about the zealots trying to ban the child gynoids. In my experience many, probably most, people already think many of the laws are crazy, but no one wants to stand up publicly and oppose them for fear of being labeled a pedophile. Well when companies are willing to oppose the zealots, and being labeled a pedophile means you just like kids but have sex with a robot, people are going to be less worried about speaking up.

Or at least I hope so, because I'd hate to think the zealots are always going to win the day. There's already been too damn many laws passed that restrict stuff that doesn't even remotely harm a child, but could accidentally ensnare unsuspecting adults for my taste. I'm sick of it myself, and I know all my friends are too.

Re:holy shit

[Databass]

Much, much, MUCH better a pile of metal and plastic shaped like a 13 year old child than a REAL 13-year old child.

If someone could get out all their urges on the former, maybe they'd never bother with the latter.
The counter argument is that getting a taste of the former might increase one's hunger to try the latter. But is that really true?

Re:holy shit

[gweihir]

Or how about considering that it's clearly not a healthy state of mind and remedying it with counselling or therapy. Do you think that encouraging them through the use of robotic surrogates will cure them or allow them to move further into and become more comfortable in their sickness?

Well, are you sure it is a sickness that can be cured? Homosexuality was thought to be one as well for a long time, which turned out to be utter nonsense. Might be the same thing here. In fact I would think it likely. In that case the only thing that can be done is to a) make those affected understand that they cannot act on the impulse with a child as it has a high likelyhood of doing serious damage and b) help them to control the urges.

Re:holy shit

[gweihir]

Much, much, MUCH better a pile of metal and plastic shaped like a 13 year old child than a REAL 13-year old child.

I agree, but these religious types do not actually care about the victims, they care to tell people what they can and cannot do, i.e. they want to tell you what to do, think and believe. So having sex with a fake child is about as bad in their eyes as having sex with a real child.

Re:holy shit

[TheoMurpse]

Not safe for work whatsoever. They ship to the US.

Re:holy shit

[Madsy]

What is unhealthy is that they are likely to want the real thing eventually. Take for instance the straight male that gets one of these - it may placate him when he gets randy but it is only going to increase his appetite for more. hat makes you think a pedophile would be any different?

So you think pedophilia is 'curable'? It's not more curable than say, homosexuality is. It's a sexual preference. If that's not what you meant, how do you figure that getting an outlet for ones urges somehow makes a person even more desperate? In my head, it's kind of the other way around.

Re:holy shit

[badkarmadayaccount]

I smell a market niche. Anybody got a couple a million? I need investors.

Re:holy shit

[HungryHobo]

People used the same argument about porn. That it would just make men more horney and lead to a massive upswing in rapes etc.
In reality we see the opposite when people have access to pornography.

Re:holy shit

[kalirion]

If that's not what you meant, how do you figure that getting an outlet for ones urges somehow makes a person even more desperate?

There are really two ways of looking at this. One the one hand, like you said, it could be "an outlet for urges". On the other hand, it could enhance the urge for "the real thing", or make the pedo think that the next step isn't so "big" (yes, its a slippery slope argument, but not all slippery slopes are imaginary.)

I think this is something psychologists/psychiatrists needs to weigh in on, and not leave it to "common sense."

Re:holy shit

[exi1ed0ne]

The problem people will be those that feel they have some sort of divine (or otherwise) responsibility to shame and/or punish pedophiles just for being pedophiles, even when no child is or would have been harmed.

I've always thought it is mostly venting frustrations at an unfulfilled desire for the deviant behavior. These repressed wants drive the need to punish any who would actually experience the object or action secretly desired. It's over-compensation and the guilty need to punish themselves by proxy - the more guilt, the more rabid foam.

Re:holy shit

[Cederic]

But if they're only harmlessly having sex with robots, what's so bad about that "unhealthy state of mind"?

There are those that would suggest that even inferring it's harmless to have sex with a robot is an unhealthy state of mind, which must be purged with a big stick.

(There are those that wouldn't mind skipping the robot sex bit and going straight to the stick.)

Re:holy shit

[BobMcD]

And all this will bring the debate out into the public, and most of the public's going to start wondering about the zealots trying to ban the child gynoids. In my experience many, probably most, people already think many of the laws are crazy, but no one wants to stand up publicly and oppose them for fear of being labeled a pedophile. Well when companies are willing to oppose the zealots, and being labeled a pedophile means you just like kids but have sex with a robot, people are going to be less worried about speaking up.

Or at least I hope so, because I'd hate to think the zealots are always going to win the day. There's already been too damn many laws passed that restrict stuff that doesn't even remotely harm a child, but could accidentally ensnare unsuspecting adults for my taste. I'm sick of it myself, and I know all my friends are too.

The emotions you are describing (bewilderment, disgust, etc) are probably just not as powerful as those felt by a parent for their children. I highly doubt your version of how the events unfold is accurate, specifically because only Vulcans can counter emotion with logic. Humans have yet to actually be able to do so, though you will likely meet some who will claim otherwise. So as long as the thought of a child being raped is something no parent will tolerate, these laws will continue to exist, no matter how logical your point of view may seem, in your eyes, to be.

As a parent myself, I'm perfectly content with forbidding this behavior, despite the admittedly minuscule chance that it will ever impact anyone I have ever met.

And before one goes off into a 'parent minority' tract, may I remind you that you spawned from two of those illogical aberrations yourself.

Re:holy shit

[BobMcD]

What is unhealthy is that they are likely to want the real thing eventually. Take for instance the straight male that gets one of these - it may placate him when he gets randy but it is only going to increase his appetite for more.

Why would it? Seriously, I don't think something like that will happen. More likely, we'll get a whole lot of robophiles who will breed themselves out of existence.

If there were no desire for the real thing, and robophilia were the target, then why make the dolls resemble anything at all?

Re:holy shit

[BobMcD]

So you think pedophilia is 'curable'? It's not more curable than say, homosexuality is. It's a sexual preference. If that's not what you meant, how do you figure that getting an outlet for ones urges somehow makes a person even more desperate? In my head, it's kind of the other way around.

Parallels between homosexuality and pedophilia are difficult at best. Sexual behavior is limited, by law, to consenting adults. Pedophilia excludes both of those possibilities while homosexuality does not.

Setting that aside for a moment, there does probably need to be some kind of a limit to which urges are allowed to be indulged and which are forbidden. Draw the line where you will, but certainly murder is among these. Personally, rape is as well, even when only due to one of the parties being too young to consent.

Re:holy shit

[bluefoxlucid]

It is a comfort factor thing, but it's more complex than that. On the one hand, it makes it more difficult to repress; on the other, it forces you to face those things. Thus, it reduces internal struggle, meaning that either you can plot to find some way to get away with it OR you can dismiss it and accept that you can't follow it. Both become easier; however, people make bad choices.

I have ... personal issues with this. I've never been in a relationship and didn't see why anyone would cheat... now I have my eyes on a girl and I'm not comfortable pursuing any others at the moment, because of where my feelings lie; but it's damn hard for me not to. Various things I do and states of mind change how I approach the problem; I am, unfortunately, slowly coming to the realization that if I'd been dropped into a relationship, never thought about it, had easy access to sex, then had just one day where I was just extra horny and had a long-sought-out fantasy within reach (an asian that loves giving oral, an 18 year old and her hot 19 year old cheerleader friend, various other things), I might tick over and decide (DECIDE) to do it anyway.

At this point I don't know. I know I'd speak up if I did, right away; I wouldn't keep it from her for a second if I cheated. I think I'm better equipped to recognize it and walk out, or even stay around and resist the urge. But I don't honestly know if I'd do it or not.

It's the same with anything else. Pedophiles, bisexuals, anything. There's going to be many factors that either increase or relieve internal tension. Increasing the tension causes them to make erratic decisions, either reacting poorly to situations they see as "wrong" or suddenly engaging in those activities when it seems possible to get away with it. Decreasing the tension causes them to make well-thought-out decisions, but again these may result in handling those situations well and walking away OR planning out how to do the "wrong" thing (bisexuals might try to make sure nobody knows they fool around with guys, this might not actually be wrong) and get away with it (with greater success). It's... annoying. Humans don't actually have cures for their flaws.

Re:holy shit

[bluefoxlucid]

I would like to point out that some people have cited Freude to me trying to claim that children are sexual by nature and sex is unlikely to harm them. Freude was high on cocaine all the time though, and believed that infants masturbate, a lot. Just want to say, the "high likelihood of doing serious damage" is debatable, if you can call "one well respected nut job disagrees with you" a debate.

Re:holy shit

[tehcyder]

And yet I'd rather have people fuck all the robot kids they want than have them rape real children.

I know it's heresy to say it here, but don't you think this might encourage more paedophiles to become active, and then move from robots to real children?

Re:holy shit

[tehcyder]

So you think pedophilia is 'curable'? It's not more curable than say, homosexuality is. It's a sexual preference

Bad choice of words. I doubt you'd have said that heterosexuality was just a sexual preference like paedophilia, would you? Whatever your intention, you are in effect equating them.

We had sex robots for a long, long time

[sznupi]

They are called vibrators.

Strangely, widely accepted by one of the sexes, this which is usually thought to be more demanding (on many levels) of partners.

Re:We had sex robots for a long, long time

[poetmatt]

I thought they called them harry potter brooms?

Re:We had sex robots for a long, long time

[maxume]

Much like we have had robotic cars for decades.

Re:We had sex robots for a long, long time

[larry bagina]

Of my past 5 girlfriends, all had at least one vibrator or dildo. Not that I've asked, but I don't know any guys that have a pocket pussy or the like. If a girl has a 12" rubber uncut black cock, would she consider you a freak for having a flesh light? Somehow, I think she would.

Re:We had sex robots for a long, long time

[Ethanol-fueled]

I think that most of us guys have become accustomed to the level of control we achieve with our hand(s). It's a lot easier for a guy to get off without toys. You can make your grip tighter, but women can't make thieir fingers longer and thicker.

I once bought a cheap $25 blowup doll as a gag. I decided to fuck it since throwing it away a virgin (blowup dolls' orfices are sealed with pull-tabs much like the ones on cans) would have been a waste. It was harsh. It was tight but it ended up making my dick all raw, even with a condom on, even in the shower.

Re:We had sex robots for a long, long time

[DriftingDutchman]

That is because popular opinion says that women can always get laid if they want to, and when they choose not to and use a vibrator instead, they are perceived as being discerning. Whereas a man that uses a pocket pussy is perceived as a loser because "everyone knows" that he would rather have had the real thing.

Re:We had sex robots for a long, long time

[Anonymous Coward]

A vibrator cannot make me a sandwich, therefore it is not a true companion.

Re:We had sex robots for a long, long time

[areusche]

I'm almost surprised no one has mentioned this. Imagine a beowolf cluster of these. No really imagine one! It would be a dream come true!

Re:We had sex robots for a long, long time

[Anonymous Coward]

Get it right. It's "This guy's a fracking toaster."

Re:We had sex robots for a long, long time

[w0mprat]

I think that most of us guys have become accustomed to the level of control we achieve with our hand(s)

This site more than others?

Re:We had sex robots for a long, long time

[Anonymous Coward]

(As A/C obviously)

I have a Fleshlight, and let me tell you, it's as good as the real thing, completely safe (no pregnancy or VD), and more fun because you don't have to listen to it or take crap from it at other times in the day.

You can get right to work, get your O, then go straight to sleep without being stabbed or set on fire. If you want to have "sex" several times in a night, it won't tell you no.

Best of all, you can clean the thing up in your bathroom sink.

Who CARES what women think? If they can have dildos, I can have a Fleshlight.

Re:We had sex robots for a long, long time

[X0563511]

In the shower? There's your issue. Water is a horrid lubricant for that stuff. And if it was prelubricated... it was most likely water based.

So, basically that's all your fault.

And, you've never tried something decent. That was a $25 piece of shit doll. Try a $60 fleshlight, there's a big difference. Yea, not as quick as using my hand and cleanup etc is a pain in the ass, but the intensity of it is levels higher.

(yea, you creeped out yet? heh)

Re:We had sex robots for a long, long time

[ozmanjusri]

cleanup etc is a pain in the ass

I think you're using it wrong.

Re:We had sex robots for a long, long time

[KDR_11k]

I tried training my weighted companion cube to make me a sandwich but it couldn't do that either... Does that mean it has betrayed me???

Re:We had sex robots for a long, long time

[rsborg]

A vibrator cannot make me a sandwich, therefore it is not a true companion.

I don't imagine you have root on the vibrator, did you try sudo?

Re:We had sex robots for a long, long time

[X0563511]

Just what is (R4,NZ,OZ,TL1,TL2,TL3) supposed to signify?

Is this some kind of botnet command channel cleverly disguised as commercial spam?

Re:We had sex robots for a long, long time

[falcon5768]

not all women get off from JUST clitoral stimulation. many like penetration too, hence why internal vibrators and dildos are so popular.

Re:We had sex robots for a long, long time

[phillips321]

+1 to this guy, well said. Now where's my fleshlight?

Re:We had sex robots for a long, long time

[ilsaloving]

VCL (Vibrator control language)

Rotate 4 times
iN (Z axis)
Out (Z axis)
Twist Left once
Twist Left twice
Twist Left three times.

Hmm... Excuse me for a few minutes. I need to... run some tests.

Re:We had sex robots for a long, long time

[Korey Kaczor]

Might want to get out of the basement once in a while, bub.

Re:We had sex robots for a long, long time

[VShael]

If a girl has a 12" rubber uncut black cock, would she consider you a freak for having a flesh light?

What if, instead of a flesh light, the guy had the 12" rubber uncut black cock? Would she consider him a freak then?

Re:We had sex robots for a long, long time

[bhiestand]

If a girl has a 12" rubber uncut black cock, would she consider you a freak for having a flesh light?

What if, instead of a flesh light, the guy had the 12" rubber uncut black cock? Would she consider him a freak then?

Is she Jewish?

Re:We had sex robots for a long, long time

[sznupi]

Uhm, no. While cars are hardly robots, vibrators are close enough. You turn it on and it does it's thing. Like Roomba.

Porn drives tech?

[OffTheWallSoccer]

Of course porn drives tech; how many slashdotters would be outside, away from their computers were it not for porn?

Re:Porn drives tech?

[zach_the_lizard]

I don't know about the others, but that whole sun thing doesn't like me very much. I'd much rather stay inside, even with no porn. I've got a command center to run!

O RLY?

[girlintraining]

I suddenly feel a little bit smug having only spent $25 on my vibrator, and the occasional pocket change on lotion and AA batteries. Why anyone would spend hundreds of dollars on a sex toy is beyond me. It feels good to be a girl right now. ^___^

Re:O RLY?

[lilomar]

Um, a vibrator isn't a fake dick. You are thinking of a dildo. Although a vibrator may also be a dildo, not all dildos are vibrators. A vibrator is something that ...vibrates. it can be any shape.

Um...does this post make me a sex toy nazi?

Re:O RLY?

[bcrowell]

I suddenly feel a little bit smug having only spent $25 on my vibrator, and the occasional pocket change on lotion and AA batteries. Why anyone would spend hundreds of dollars on a sex toy is beyond me. It feels good to be a girl right now. ^___^

But wait! TFA says: 'According to True Companion's Web site, [Roxxxy] "can carry on a discussion and expresses her love to you and be your loving friend. She can talk to you, listen to you and feel your touch."'

I want to go this trade show and ask them to let me test-drive Roxxxy's physical capabilities. And then I'll say, "Hang on, can you demo how she can express love for me and be my loving friend as well?" And see if the sales rep can get through the whole thing without laughing.

Re:O RLY?

[Shakrai]

can carry on a discussion and expresses her love to you and be your loving friend.

Yeah, because conversation and expressions of love is exactly what I'm looking for when the urge to "relieve" myself shows up ;) It's only one small step from this functionality to the lovebot claiming it has a backache when you start undressing ;)

Re:O RLY?

[pete-classic]

I feel presumptuous making a suggestion. But you opened the door, I'm just walking through.

I highly recommend using a proper lube instead of lotion. I like a water/glycerin/glycol product, like Astroglide. I have a (lady) friend who likes petroleum jelly. (Available in a tube if you go this route. I find the tub gross.)

I think you'll find much better lubrication and sensation. As a bonus, with the water based products cleanup is easier.

-Peter

Re:O RLY?

[The Wild Norseman]

It feels good to be a girl right now.

Oh! Sorry! We can come back a little later if you're still... indisposed. We... uh... heard a strange buzzing noise and thought it might have been a transformer going out or something...

Re:O RLY?

[MichaelSmith]

You should look into nickel metal hydride rechargeable batteries. Its best to steer away from the highest capacity Ni-MH batteries because they are fairly weak mechanically. I have lost a few from modest overheating under charge.

The best thing abut rechargeables over single use batteries is that you can be sure they are a full capacity when you need them. This was the reason given to me by a photographer who was using them for his camera.

Back on topic now. Its a shame Truecompanion don't make a MILF version for oldies like me.

Re:O RLY?

[bmecoli]

...and the occasional pocket change on lotion and AA batteries.

Wait... LOTION?! Don't you ladies produce that yourselves? ;/

Re:O RLY?

[LoRdTAW]

"Hang on, can you demo how she can express love for me and be my loving friend as well?"

Who gives a shit about that. As long as the bitch makes me a sandwich after we are done I am sold.

Re:O RLY?

[_Sprocket_]

I suddenly feel a little bit smug having only spent $25 on my vibrator, and the occasional pocket change on lotion and AA batteries. Why anyone would spend hundreds of dollars on a sex toy is beyond me. It feels good to be a girl right now. ^___^

It's like any other hobby - you can spend as much or as little as you want on it; with varying results. I'm sure a guy can save themselves a considerable amount over the cost of one of these dolls by buying a Fleshlight. Meanwhile, a girl might want to spend more than your toy's ticket price on a Symbian. And there's undoubtedly whole lines of mass-produced, small-run production, and custom equipment out there for every aspect of human sexuality.

Re:O RLY?

[zach_the_lizard]

lame troll just makes it apparent that you are a virgin.

This is slashdot, we are all virgins! How can you tell him apart from the rest of us?

Re:O RLY?

[Mashiki]

Um...does this post make me a sex toy nazi?

Nope...but watch out. Now you've got a legion of /. nerds who can't figure out if you're a guy or a girl. Your mailbox is going to be flooded.

Re:O RLY?

[Anonymous Coward]

Here in Texas, possessing more than five of either is a felony punishable by 2-10.

Re:O RLY?

[Anonymous Coward]

Yeah yeah yeah. You're a female. We get it. It's in your id, and you are constantly mentioning it. What do you want, a frickin' medal for having a vag or something? What an attention whore.

Re:O RLY?

[Shakrai]

I have a (lady) friend who likes petroleum jelly

Bad idea to use that if you are relying on condoms for birth control and/or STD prevention......

Re:O RLY?

[Nimey]

It's true. Oil-based lubes eat rubber.

For condom use, get a water-based lubricant like KY. The stuff also works a treat when you need a wank.

Re:O RLY?

[Anonymous Coward]

Because other girls don't have dicks.

Re:O RLY?

[WillyDavidK]

No, they produce lubricant - there is a difference.

Re:O RLY?

[Hurricane78]

Pff, you need some object. The only thing we need, are our hands. And they even have real skin.

Besides, for some out there, there is always the “truck driver’s cunt” (Thermos filled with ground meat.)
(Not for me though. Ewww.)

Re:O RLY?

[SScorpio]

So the first person to cross the griddler with the sex robot will win? Making a grilled sandwich is nice, but I'd prefer the option of a steak as well. Hell with the griddler you can also get pancakes in the morning.

Re:O RLY?

[radtea]

I suddenly feel a little bit smug having only spent $25 on my vibrator, and the occasional pocket change on lotion and AA batteries.

You should seriously upgrade to a magic wand (about $50) or if you want to go all the way, try to an erosolator (very pricey, north of $100). My g/f swears by the latter, and while it took a bit of convincing for me to get her to try the former she's been very happy with it. Plug-in vibrators have significantly more power than battery-operated ones, which makes them qualitatively different according to the fairly large number of women I've talked to about them.

Apropos the story: embedded intelligence is going to be the enabling technology of the next industrial revolution. That pr0n is at the forefront is a positive sign that embedded intelligence really is going to be able to power us out of the current recession and into a new era of prosperity.

Re:O RLY?

[timmarhy]

imagine if macdonalds build a sexbot, they would be trillionares!!

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[Opportunist]

And finally one grill product without the head of George Foreman on it.

At least... oh well, whatever floats your boat, but I do NOT want to see one on mine!

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[Runaway1956]

Eh. Dolls. I don't know how anyone can get past that vacuous look on a doll's face. Some broad looking at me in disgust would be better than those faces.

http://www.liberator.com/eng/video/all/22

Watch the dolls "interacting" with their - uhhh - "handlers".

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[Firehed]

No problem, as long as she runs Linux.

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[Nimey]

Cite?

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[Nimey]

I sense a nerd without a girlfriend...

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[MadnessASAP]

I suddenly feel a little bit smug having only spent $25 on my vibrator, and the occasional pocket change on lotion and AA batteries. Why anyone would spend hundreds of dollars on a sex toy is beyond me.

A few hundred dollars? Christ real dolls cost a few thousand dollars, this things is going to cost at LEAST $10,000 and very likely a whole lot more.

It feels good to be a girl right now. ^___^

Well guys come with their sex toys built right in, and we can walk around with them and take them everywhere we go. Feels even better to be a guy right now :)

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[girlintraining]

Yeah yeah yeah. You're a female. We get it. It's in your id, and you are constantly mentioning it. What do you want, a frickin' medal for having a vag or something? What an attention whore.

Well pardon me for taking pride in my gender. No, I don't want a medal, I just want the same respect you'd give any man on this forum. If I was techiedude96, it'd be a moot point -- But you get +5 insightful and I get a bunch of overrated mods because apparently there's a girl in the clubhouse (le gasp).

I'm a dyke... do you really think a few mods on some backwater geek website is going to deter me from continuing to call you people out for your sexist bullshit?

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[anthony.vo]

Um...does this post make me a sex toy nazi?

NO PLEASURE FOR YOU!!!

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[Maxo-Texas]

I love your eyes Roxxy

roxxy: I love your eyes too, bill.

You make me hot!

roxxy: do you like it that i make you hot?

What's your favorite sex move!?!

roxxy: What about your own favorite sex move, bill?

I like pinching your nipples.

roxxy: Can you elaborate on that, bill?

I like pinching them and making you squeal!

roxxy: Do you wish to like pinching them hard so me, bill?

http://www-ai.ijs.si/eliza-cgi-bin/eliza_script

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[Anonymous Coward]

I just want the same respect you'd give any man on this forum.

I think that's what he was giving you.

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[Maxo-Texas]

No, it doesn't make you sex toy nazi, but your comment did prick my interest.

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[shutdown -p now]

Our condolences. This sounds a lot like Taliban - perhaps you should ask to be liberated or something; I hear there is that country, can't remember its name, thats pretty good at that sort of thing. Especially if you've got a dry arid climate, they've got a lot of recent experience with that.

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[Anonymous Coward]

There's absolutely no problem with you being a girl. There are many girls on Slashdot, and I haven't ever seen that being a problem.

The problem with you, personally, is that you're very in-your-face about "I'm a girl, and that MATTERS!". That's what GP means by "constantly mentioning" and "attention whore". There's nothing wrong with identifying your gender when it's relevant to the topic at hand, but, judging by your post history, you're keen on dragging it into every discussion - and, if necessary, you will bend the discussion to do so. And you usually also do it in a deliberately provocative way to cause a gender pissing match. That's what annoys people.

Of all females posting to /. - which are surprisingly many, actually - and even out of quite a few who have explicitly identified themselves as lesbian or bi - you are the only one being singled out like that. You might consider if that is because of your attitude, rather than your gender or sexual orientation.

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[sextoynazi]

Um...does this post make me a sex toy nazi?

No, but you inspired me to finally sign up for an account.

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[Alsee]

Um...does this post make me a sex toy nazi?

Um, I dunno. Are you now a 12 inch tall vibrating Hitler?

Waitaminute... I suddenly sense an extremely profitable business opportunity!

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[EdIII]

Besides, for some out there, there is always the "truck driver's cunt" (Thermos filled with ground meat.)

fucking thank you

Supposedly you learn something new every day, and this... made today worth getting up for.

btw.. I suggest high fat content ground meat. The lean stuff requires some Country Crock to get it going.

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[Alsee]

just want the same respect you'd give any man on this forum.

This is the internet. Any sentence not containing the word gayfagdouchewad is about the epitome of respect, regardless of your gender.

-

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[Rary]

Because other girls don't have dicks.

At the moment, this comment is modded "Informative".

Only on Slashdot.

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[MindlessAutomata]

Yeah OK Ms. Dworkin.

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[SirKveldulv]

I'm a dyke... do you really think a few mods on some backwater geek website is going to deter me from continuing to call you people out for your sexist bullshit?

I don't see you "calling anyone out" on anything, however you do seem touchy about gender issues. Moreover, I don't see what relevance your sexual preference has to the discussion.

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[StreetStealth]

I knew this girl who had a USB one that synced with this interactive video player for Windows.

She got Conficker.

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[X0563511]

Also, oil and silicon based lubes, while nice, are a real PITA to clean off completely. Water based well... you just use water.

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[X0563511]

You know, for someone who just doesn't give a shit about it all, it's quite humorous to watch these "sexist duels."

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[X0563511]

There's just something disturbing (on a fundamental level) about fucking the shredded body parts of an animal.

Lets put this in perspective. Go find a cow. Stab it. Now fuck the knife wound.

Yea, that's basically what your doing there with your "truck driver's cunt"

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[X0563511]

Wow... take a look through that furniture.

I think it would be hilarious just to have a few laying about... imagine the impression that would leave heheh

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[Bluesman]

I suddenly sense an extremely profitable business opportunity!

Yeah, we could make 12" female dolls to sell to the vibrating Nazis!

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[Zerth]

He's behind the times, the Texas law got overturned in 2008 after the Supreme Court made it possible by saying that laws that control private sexual conduct to enforce a moral code was unconstitutional.

Last I knew, Alabama was the only state with laws against the sale of sex aids.

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[Anonymous Coward]

"Techiedude96" likely wouldn't say "It feels good to be a boy right now. ^___^"

Admittedly, that's mostly because we're a patriarchal society where it rarely if ever doesn't feel good to be a boy.

However, I think your post answered the question it begged - you can "feel good" by only spending $25 on a vibrator, with occasional batteries and lotion, and spending hundreds of dollars on a sex toy is "beyond you." Well, obviously.

Other people need more than bullets: both men and women alike. And you choose to rub in their faces the fact that they can't get off with pocket change, and you choose to bring gender into it by erroneously claiming that girls need spend less on sex supplies than guys.

That's sexist bullshit, girlintraining. And it's demeaning to a heck of a lot of people.

So you want to take "pride" in something that isn't an accomplishment (being female), while working to undo the accomplishments that have been made in the name of women, and sex, everywhere. Are you sure you're not working for a medal?

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[DakotaSmith]

Here's the reason men like me will buy products like this:

In general, Western women are just a pain in the ass to be around.

Western women make absolutely lousy companions. They're typically happy to be going somewhere or doing something she wants to do, but will drag her feet and complain when situation is reversed.

Western women also tend to view men as little more than a human wallet. One need go no further than any "family law" court to prove that this is so, but Western women display this attitude constantly. Try unexpectedly not paying your date's way and see if she goes on another.

Worse, if a man is married and loses his job, the marriage immediately hits the rocks. If he's out of work for long, it's over. "For richer or poorer," my ass.

Oh, and if you haven't noticed, the physical beauty of a woman is in direct proportion to the income of her boyfriend or husband. Frankly, I'm unclear why this isn't anything other than socially-acceptable prostitution.

Western women no longer have any skills that would make them assets as life companions. They microwave food just like men, keep house just like men, and have little skill in raising well-adjusted children. And before you go nuts, realize that I'm not suggesting that a woman's place is in the home. I'm simply pointing out that they no longer have the skills that made them an asset in the past. They're at best a neutral addition to the household; in general, they're just liabilities.

In general, women aren't any fun sexually, as they tend to just lay there. This continues to amaze me in the Internet age: any woman who cares to look will find a multitude of "how-to" guides in the form of porn. There are some exceptions, but in general women do nothing in bed. And I own and use a Hitachi Magic Wand on my lovers, so I won't buy the idea that it's my performance that's at fault. If you can't give a woman orgasms with a Magic Wand, you need to adjust your drool cup.

I'm middle-aged, and I've been waiting for a decent gyndroid (the female version of an android) for about five years. That was when, after a lifetime watching women misbehave, I finally gave up on finding a rational, well-adjusted woman to share my life.

In all seriousness, when you break it down, the disadvantages of having a relationship with a woman far outweigh the advantages. Indeed, Western women have deteriorated so badly that unless you want to procreate, they're nothing but trouble. I already have children and have no desire for more, so what can a woman offer me that a gyndroid can't?

And as to the cost ... well, I don't know the pricing of this particular item, but I've looked at RealDolls and they're very pricey. However, think of it this way:

A man can expect to pay in the vicinity of a hundred bucks for a nice date -- the kind that impresses women and leads them to want to spend more time with you. That's every date. Then there's marriage and the inevitable use of a man's money in amounts that -- over time -- would astound a person.

If a good gyndroid cost $10,000, it would be considerably less than a man spends on a woman when amortized over ten or fifteen years. Frankly, a gyndroid would be a real bargain.

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[dreamchaser]

I've actually enjoyed many of your posts. They are often insightful. That being said, you DO seem to often mention both your gender and your sexuality quite often. We get it and most of us don't give a shit whether you're a man or a woman, gay or straight. Get over it and move on :)

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[houghi]

Never know that there was to have pride to have a gender. How can I be proud of something I have no influence over. I am so proud to have the gender I have, to have the skin color I have and where I was born. Just plain silly.

The fact that you are a dyke is also of no interest. Who really cares?

And why would you visit a backwater geek website? If you don't like it, do not go there. So here another one for you:
Gay men love men and therefore do it with men.
Lesbians hate men and are therefore forced to sleep with the alternative.

All the gay bars I went to with a female, we were both more then welcome. The moment I said I was not gay, there was no problem.
All the lesbian bars I went to with a female, people either asked me to leave or treated me like I was raping women on the bar (if I was allowed to enter in the first place)

So talk again about sexist bullshit, because that is what I get from the majority of the lesbian community: sexist bullshit.

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[EdIII]

There's just something disturbing (on a fundamental level) about fucking the shredded body parts of an animal.

Lets put this in perspective. Go find a cow. Stab it. Now fuck the knife wound.

Yea, that's basically what your doing there with your "truck driver's cunt"

Not even remotely the same.

1) The knife wound is going to be warmer. You can't achieve the same effect with ground chuck since it will actually cook it and then you're just fucking cooked ground beef which has a much, much, different texture. Plus you had better wait till the meat cools off. Trust me.
2) You better have a real small dick, or a really large knife. Internal organs and muscle don't give, or conform, to the shape of your dick as readily as ground chuck. Plus it just feels weird man.
3) If you stab into muscle, the muscle around it can still contract. At best it can be interesting, at worst you are being carried around by a cow by your dick. Then you have to use your knife frantically to kill it.
4) You either let the cow run around with a deep stab wound (unethical and cruel), or kill it afterwards. You can't kill it before hand, because that would be bestial necrophilia and:
    a) That's some seriously sick twisted perverted shit man. I'm disgusted you made me even think about it. Again.
    b) A juror always pukes when they hear that in the court room and I got a weak stomach for that kind of stuff. Plus the judgment in everyone's eyes.
5) The only sane thing to do is to kill the cow in such a way as to make it look like aliens came and did shit to the cow. Most of time.. it ain't aliens.

P.S - Of course... just maybe... you have problems differentiating a +5 funny attempt and a +5 'I was actually fucking serious' :)

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[geekgirlandrea]

Why anyone would spend hundreds of dollars on a sex toy is beyond me.

Two words: violet wand.

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[Suki I]

I want to go this trade show and ask them to let me test-drive Roxxxy's physical capabilities. And then I'll say, "Hang on, can you demo how she can express love for me and be my loving friend as well?" And see if the sales rep can get through the whole thing without laughing.

I was sort of worried that this technology was making a leap past "realistic" future fiction. Not to worry. bcrowell, the only way you can get any details about the product from their site is by opening a chat or submitting a question form.

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[piquadratCH]

Meanwhile, a girl might want to spend more than your toy's ticket price on a Symbian.

Haven't you heard? Symbian has been made Free by that rubber company.

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[Bluey]

What post history are you looking at? I just looked through the recent comments on her profile and couldn't see much mention of gender.

There was this thread and one other post about TSA data exchange specification that mentioned gender along with numerous other data fields. Other than that, it seemed like pretty typical nerdy chatter about malloc() jokes and energy through sewer tunnels.

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[WiseWeasel]

At least the robot can't charge you with rape when you ignore its protests...

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[Maxo-Texas]

They've known this since at least the 50's...

A pretty women makes her husband look small
it very often causes a system fall
As soon as he marrys her then she starts
looking for things that will break his heart
but if you make an ugly women your wife
you'll be happy for the rest of your life
An ugly women will put peals on that
and she'll always give you a piece of that.

If you wanna be happy for the rest of your life
Never make a pretty women your wife
Go for my personal point of view
Get an ugly girl to marry you

---

I've found less attractive women to be much better sex partners. For one thing, they are happy to have a good looking boyfriend and that happiness feeds into sex.
As far as attractive women go generally, I'm less dark than you. I'd say about 60% had all the issues you talk about while 40% were okay (except that I'm a better cook than any woman I've met and frequently cook the "nice" meals for us and our friends).

---

I've never tried the magic wand. I found a pyrex toy that is pure magic tho.

---

Three guys I know have foreign brides and so far, both are very happy. One russian, one philipino, one german.

---

There are attractive women out there who are not messed up and who are good catches... but they are uncommon and typically disappeared off the marriage market in their late 20's.

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[Maxo-Texas]

Most females are great at conversation.

You just have to ask them a question to start them talking about something that interests them and then say "ah", "yes", "that bitch!" occasionally.*

---

To be fair, dale carnegie teaches that the thing most people love talking about is themselves and you are seen as a great conversationalist if you get someone started, listen, then ask questions about things they say which you are genuinely curious about. At some point, most conversations will turn into a give and take.

---

There's more than one comic routine about recognizing this fact.

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[X0563511]

Shame there is no "+5 Best Response Ever" mod.

You made my day :)

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[Maxo-Texas]

A comic on the radio the other day said, "no doesn't mean no- it means, work on the nipples some more, kiss the side of the neck some more, and check back in five minutes".

I've found most females have to approach sex sideways. "I'm not doing this.. oh look, we just somehow ended up naked and having sex".

OTH, The two females who were direct were a bit scary and offputting.

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[G-forze]

Meanwhile, a girl might want to spend more than your toy's ticket price on a Symbian.

If your not talking about mobile devices, maybe this is what you were referring to.

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[Maxo-Texas]

So far, "both"... I was halfway through this and remembered another guy I knew with the german wife.

Should say, "all three".

It all has to do with how lucky the lady feels to be with you.
If she is certain she traded down, she's going to be a bitch and probably worse- sleep around on you.

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[doublegauss]

Here's the reason men like me will buy products like this:

In general, Western women are just a pain in the ass to be around.

IMHO, the views expressed in your post show very clearly why. No woman above the desperation level would want to hang out with a sexist jerk like you. And before you react to my post as "feminist bullshit", please note that I am a straight male. Actually, I happen to like women.

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[wgoodman]

They killed me, Mal. With a sword. How weird is that?....

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[mhwombat]

I'm guessing this is a troll, but the fact that this is modded "Interesting" instead of "Troll" says something disturbing about slashdot. I can only imagine that a reasonable number of readers agree with it. Presumably embittered male readers.

So many things I could say, so let me pick the easiest: assets? Seriously? A neutral addition to the household, or a liability? How are they any more of a liability than YOU are, unless you are in fact suggesting that a woman's place is in the home and that "the skills that made them an asset in the past" are the only skills of value?

So rather than viewing women has human beings who you might want to share your life with, you're viewing them as a burdensome financial investment in exchange for sex. It's just barely possible that this attitude may go some way towards explaining the problems you've been having with women.

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[Mathness]

If you can't give a woman orgasms with a Magic Wand, you need to adjust your drool cup.

Or just stop putting on your wizard robe and hat.

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[TheRaven64]

I'm sorry, you are not in the sudoers file.

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[chrb]

In general, women aren't any fun sexually

What? What!?!

Man, are you doing something wrong...

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[drinkypoo]

I suddenly feel a little bit smug having only spent $25 on my vibrator, [...] It feels good to be a girl right now. ^___^

And I guess we all know why. Brain, meet Clorox.

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[drinkypoo]

embedded intelligence is going to be the enabling technology of the next industrial revolution.

the fact that nobody has mass-marketed a halfway decent biofeedback vibrator is proof positive that we are many years away from having fuckbots that a 'normal' person would want to fuck. If you're waiting for porn to drive this technology, you will wait forever.

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[drinkypoo]

In general, Western women are just a pain in the ass to be around.

And how. I think what we're seeing here is the inevitable overcorrection from feminism. Women convinced themselves they're entitled to anything and everything due to the oppression of women in the past. The problem is that it only leads to more oppression when you make yourself helpless.

If a good gyndroid cost $10,000, it would be considerably less than a man spends on a woman when amortized over ten or fifteen years. Frankly, a gyndroid would be a real bargain.

We're very far away from that. So far, it is still necessary to go out and find someone you can stand to be with. IMO, the biggest obstacle is puritanical views on sex programmed into all of us westerners (realize it or not) that tell us that sex is something it isn't. It prevents you from having sex with your friends, the people you should be having sex with, because of the likelihood that you will make sex into something it isn't, fly off the handle, and ruin a friendship.

I do have to say that I am fucking appalled by most women's inability to cook. Are they planning to marry a chef, or just eat in restaurants for the rest of their lives? My lady is a chef, and I still have to cook occasionally; you'd think more women would want to learn. But as you say, most of them don't know a fucking thing. This tendency is worst in the most attractive girls, who have guys fighting to support them. But in a world with divorce, that's not a valid plan for later life. When the beauty wears off, as it does for most women (especially those who spend a lot of time eating restaurant food) then they'll find themselves floating home.

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[stiller]

Stop feeding the trolls, no matter how elaborate their arguments may be. To be honest, the parent character seems to be the result of a pretty talented creative writer.

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[drinkypoo]

Well pardon me for taking pride in my gender. No, I don't want a medal, I just want the same respect you'd give any man on this forum.

No problem. Here we go: Fuck you sideways, and get bent tomorrow.

I'm a dyke... do you really think a few mods on some backwater geek website is going to deter me from continuing to call you people out for your sexist bullshit?

"you people"? snicker snort. If it's so backwater, what are you doing here? You should just let this whole conversation go until you can have it with detachment. (I'm one to talk. But whatever.) Also, I don't really believe in sexual orientation. Anyone who has to say it over and over again is, to me, trying too hard. But that last is only going to describe the attitudes of a slice of Slashdot. I suspect it's a small one, but don't recall a related poll.

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[mikechant]

and the occasional pocket change on lotion and AA batteries.

Rechargeable is the way to go IMHO.

www.omax.co.uk
I have no relationship with this company apart from as a *very* satisfied customer. Highly recommended for singles *and* couples, male and female.
I expect there are other similar products, particularly for sale in those US states where you can't sell a vibrator but can sell a 'sports massager'!

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[Anonymous Coward]

All the gay bars I went to with a female, we were both more then welcome. The moment I said I was not gay, there was no problem.
All the lesbian bars I went to with a female, people either asked me to leave or treated me like I was raping women on the bar (if I was allowed to enter in the first place)

That's because men, generally speaking, are seen as predators, and women as prey. I'm not saying this is true; just that many (most?) people see it that way.

Imagine a bunch of foxes declare they have no interest in hens. They meet up, and a hen walks in there as well. No problem - the hen obviously doesn't prey on foxes, and the foxes have already declared they're not interested in the hen, either.

Now imagine some hens declare they're not interested in foxes. They meet up, and a fox walks in as well. The difference is that even though the hens still have no interest in the fox, the fox, as a predator, has an interest in the hens.

This is how these things are seen, generally speaking. It's unfair, of course, and it IS sexist, but it's not a fault of the "lesbian community" as much as of society as a whole, because the whole "men are predators, women are prey" thing is a very general meme permeating all of society.

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[Migala77]

Most females are great at conversation.

You just have to ask them a question to start them talking about something that interests them and then say "ah", "yes", "that bitch!" occasionally.*

Be careful with that when they're talking about their mother.

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[wxjones]

Wow. You are amazingly bad at choosing women.

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[xaxa]

get a water-based lubricant like KY. The stuff also works a treat when you need a wank.

If you hadn't had the end of your penis cut off, you wouldn't need KY to wank.

Presumably circumcision wasn't your decision, but bear this in mind if you become a father.

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[arkhan_jg]

I really hope I'm just feeding the troll here, because the alternative that it might be genuine is horrifying. I don't think I've ever read a bigger load of misogynistic tripe in my life. That 8 people at time of posting thought it was worth upmodding frankly scares me.

Women are not angels. They are not cooks, they are not money whores, they are not 'skilled life companions'. They are *people*. They are all individuals with different desires, loves, lusts, skills and minds.

Making love with a partner is not about just jamming a vibrating piece of plastic or your dick in her and expecting her to writhe with desire for you. Making love is as much in the head as it is the physicality of it. Building a relationship is not about exchanging money for sex, cooking and 'raising well-adjusted kids'.

I feel sorry for you, and I feel sorry for the women in your life, that you see them as just after the money in your wallet; that romance is about counting up how much the bill costs.

Yes, some women are not very nice people, just as some men are not very nice people either. But it's one thing to be an asshole, and it's another thing to then classify hundreds millions of women as all self-centered money-grubbing liabilities.

If a good gyndroid cost $10,000, it would be considerably less than a man spends on a woman when amortized over ten or fifteen years. Frankly, a gyndroid would be a real bargain.

If the only thing you're getting out the relationship is bad sex with a fucking sextoy, and all you're thinking about is complaining about how much it costs you; then yes, you're damn right you'd better off with a gyndroid. At least it won't care when you think of it as a piece of meat put on earth just to satisfy *you*.

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[DakotaSmith]

In point of fact, I've considered switching teams. However, I'm not attracted in any way to men. I have no moral or even personal issues with homosexuality; but given my complete lack of interest whatsoever, I can only conclude that it's not for me. I assume that lesbian women must feel the same way about men.

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[Nimey]

I don't /need/ it. It makes a different technique than I normally use possible, and it feels a bit more like actual sex (enclosed wet place).

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[DakotaSmith]

I'm guessing this is a troll, but the fact that this is modded "Interesting" instead of "Troll" says something disturbing about slashdot. I can only imagine that a reasonable number of readers agree with it. Presumably embittered male readers.

Indeed. There are two possibilities that might account for this:

1. The men of /. are generally sexist pigs who identify with my rant.
2. The men of /. have generally the same experience with women as I

I would suggest that instead of simply assuming the former, you consider that the latter might be valid.

So many things I could say, so let me pick the easiest: assets? Seriously? A neutral addition to the household, or a liability? How are they any more of a liability than YOU are, unless you are in fact suggesting that a woman's place is in the home and that "the skills that made them an asset in the past" are the only skills of value?

The reason that women tend to become a liability in the household is because, in general, the effect of having one in your life is an immediate, unceasing drain on a man's finances.

I enter a relationship looking for -- and intending to be in return -- a loving companion. What we get is massive headaches and bills. And at the same time, it becomes our responsibility to be emotionally supportive under any and all circumstances.

Men can deal with this if there's some kind of payoff. However, the payoff never comes. We spend energy, time, and money on women at an increasing rate while receiving little or nothing in return. If we consistently got some kind of praise or even appreciation for the time and energy, the money would be irrelevant.

But in general, we don't receive praise or appeciation. Our support (emotional and financial) is simply assumed to be something owed the women for her existence in our lives.

Well, it doesn't work that way. Nobody goes into a relationship just giving, giving, giving and never expecting to receive support when we need it. Indeed, most Western women will happily abandon a man the moment he needs support of any kind.

How long will most men put up with that kind of attitude?

As long as women behave this way, a gyndroid is simply more rewarding for a man. That's why this product exists, after all.

And by the way, having seen the videos of the droid, I'm unimpressed. A German company has been marketing a significantly more attractive and more sophisticated version for several years under the name AndyDroid.

Re:O RLY?

[DakotaSmith]

The original poster asked why someone would buy this product. I explained, in as much detail as I thought necessary to communicate my perspective. Does the simple fact that you might disagree with my views make me a troll?

And again, on the subject at hand, this product is by no means unique nor the best on the market. I've never actually seen an AndyDroid, but on paper, it certainly looks like a considerably better product.

Re:O RLY?

[DaveGod]

I'm guessing this is a troll,

Some years ago, as a university student, I visited St. Petersburg. Several times we ate in a restaurant near the hostel, this restaurant was evidently where russianbrides.com or whoever arranged initial meets between Westerners (mostly American) and their prospective brides. The voice of the American traveller is notoriously loud (or carries well, YMMV) and we had little choice but to listen in. It didn't take long before we were actively eavesdropping and being thoroughly entertained and appalled.

These guys were looking for robots. I wouldn't quite say slaves, but something in effect very similar - women who will serve them, be obedient but will find this a quite satisfying life.

Of course I over-generalise: we would be picking up the choicest lines from around a dozen couples, probably many of the men were really just rather sad, severely lacking in confidence and/or social skills. I've since watched a couple of documentaries (though on Asian brides) which to be supported my earlier observations. But parent reminded me instantly of some of these guys.

[...] the fact that this is modded "Interesting" instead of "Troll" says something disturbing about slashdot. I can only imagine that a reasonable number of readers agree with it. Presumably embittered male readers.

As you see in some people's sigs around here, /. has no -1 disagree option and no, -1 overrated is not a substitute. This also goes the other way: +1 interesting is NOT the same as +1 agree. You will probably find there are many things you find very interesting wholly because you do not agree with it.

Re:O RLY?

[DakotaSmith]

In general, women aren't any fun sexually

What? What!?!

Man, are you doing something wrong...

Hm ... I suppose the more accurate statement is that women are fun in bed, but only to a point. They are content to be on the receiving end, and I do have great fun with that. However, women seem unwilling to give at the same level as men.

Consequently, the difference between a gyndroid just laying there and a human woman just laying there are negligible. Certainly human women provide more feedback, but this is ultimately a matter of how sophisticated the programming of the gyndroid is.

Considering what's now possible on Android devices, it seems to me that the lack of response by a gyndroid could be easily overcome by simply embedding an Android device in it. Keep the voice recognition software running constantly, write a program that controls the gyndroid's actions via voice recognition alone.

Actually, now that I think of it ...

Utility-wise, the gyndroid would probably spend a lot of time in storage. If it had an Android device embedded, a program could be written to allow the droid to "monitor" its surroundings by sound.

Suppose you leave the gyndroid on the couch, turned on and charging. You're at work and a miscreant breaks in. The droid could be programmed to respond by sending you an SMS.

That's it ... I'm putting a Nexus One in one of these things ...

Re:O RLY?

[makomk]

1. The men of /. are generally sexist pigs who identify with my rant.

Well, yes, duh. Why do you think feminists got a reputation for being so grouchy all the time? Realizing just how often men are sexist pigs, and how often other men support them in being so, tends to do that...

Nobody goes into a relationship just giving, giving, giving and never expecting to receive support when we need it. Indeed, most Western women will happily abandon a man the moment he needs support of any kind.

I have a feeling there's another side of the story that's rather different...

Re:O RLY?

[makomk]

There are two minor facts contradicting your statement. (1) She's currently moderated down to "0, Troll" whereas the men talking about their sex toy use are highly modded. (2) The AC post she's replying to complaining about her mentioning the fact she's female.

Re:O RLY?

[DakotaSmith]

Wow. You are amazingly bad at choosing women.

That's certainly possible. If my experience with women didn't mirror that of every single man I've ever asked, I'd assume that the problem is mine.

However, that's not the case. Rather than being amazingly bad at choosing women, it turns out that the women we have to choose from are amazingly bad.

Hence the gyndroid. A "female" with none of the liabilities of a real woman, but the ability to be programmed to respond the way a man finds satisfying.

Seriously, imagine the simple psychological impact of your gyndroid "hearing" you say hello when you come home from work and it actually responds by saying that it's glad to see you and that it missed you while you were away.

This is such a simple phrase, and yet it's one that almost never occurs in American households. The amazing thing is that a woman doesn't even need to actually mean it for a man to be satisfied. All we need is to consistently hear the words.

A gyndroid can be programmed to say it likes to see you. A human woman can't. It's as simple as that.

Re:O RLY?

[DakotaSmith]

When the beauty wears off, as it does for most women (especially those who spend a lot of time eating restaurant food) then they'll find themselves floating home.

If only that were true. Sadly, the situation is that when the beauty wears off, the women divorce the men, take all their possessions, and drive his car home.

Which, naturally, simply makes the gyndroid all the more appealing. There's no worry that if things don't work out, you'll end up in the poorhouse.

Re:O RLY?

[CyberSaint]

Meanwhile, a girl might want to spend more than your toy's ticket price on a Symbian.

I'm curious as to what you believe some women are doing with their Nokia phones... oh wait you meant a Sybian.

Re:O RLY?

[bigstrat2003]

But it's one thing to be an asshole, and it's another thing to then classify hundreds millions of women as all self-centered money-grubbing liabilities.

You are, of course, absolutely correct. Even if every single woman you've known was worthless, it doesn't follow that all women are worthless. However, you're forgetting the way experience can shift your perspective. If you've experienced nothing but worthless women, it's very, very hard to keep in mind the fact that there might be worthwhile women out there. It's irrational, but unfortunately, we're not always rational creatures.

I know this first-hand. There was a time when I was so embittered by the worthless bitches that I had known (and the ones that I watched screw over my close friends) that, in truth, I had written off the entirety of women. I knew that there were possibly good women out there, but I didn't really believe it in my heart, despite what logic told me. The only thing that shifted my perspective was knowing a woman who is not only not worthless, but is in fact a wonderful person. Having that one counter-example gives me the perspective to say "Well, even if all the other women in existence are bitches, this one isn't. Maybe there are more like her." Without that counter-example, though, I would still have a thought process much like the GP expresses.

I guess what I'm trying to say is that you shouldn't condemn him too harshly. He might be a sexist pig, yes, but he also might have had a string of very bad experiences which make it damn near impossible for him to achieve the proper perspective on things. Personally, I sympathize with him and hope that he's fortunate enough to meet someone who will help him realize that his statements don't universally apply.

Re:O RLY?

[EvilNTUser]

Your parent post has a point. For example, if you look around a bit you'll notice the man is often expected to do 50% of all housework, but take care of computers, cars and repairs alone. And carry all the heavy stuff. Worse, if something upsets this balance, expect the relationship to deteriorate, like he said.

Many have also understood equal rights as everything being equal all the time, measured per day, which is stupidly inflexible.

Men and women both have their faults, but feminist indoctrination has really screwed up a lot of the latter. That said, I wouldn't give up on real relationships with mature people. They're out there too.

Re:O RLY?

[DakotaSmith]

Well, yes, duh. Why do you think feminists got a reputation for being so grouchy all the time? Realizing just how often men are sexist pigs, and how often other men support them in being so, tends to do that...

That turns out not to be the case.

Any woman under the age of 45 has probably never met a sexist. If she has, it wasn't anything like the level of sexism that would have been commonplace a century ago.

Not to mention the entire rest of recorded human history.

Women today have it considerably better than men, yet they appear to be incapable of appreciating this fact.

I have a feeling there's another side of the story that's rather different...

There are always two sides of a story, of course.

In this case, it would be multiple sides, as it would be every woman I've ever had a relationship with -- and that would include my sister, my mother, every single one of my five aunts, and my 90-year-old grandmother. Every single one has displayed the kind of mercenary self-centeredness that makes them poor mates

And again, this is a problem that simply sells a gyndroid. What if you never had to put up with all the crap again, while receiving exactly the same level of emotional support as you'd get from a human woman?

Re:O RLY?

[DakotaSmith]

I really hope I'm just feeding the troll here, because the alternative that it might be genuine is horrifying.

Get ready to be horrified.

I don't think I've ever read a bigger load of misogynistic tripe in my life.

It's not misogynistic to point out the truth.

No modern Western man goes into a relationship looking for a slave. They go into it looking for a compassionate, supportive life partner.

Sadly, at least in the West, women are generally incapable of fulfilling this desire. Indeed, typically the reverse is true.

Women are not angels. They are not cooks, they are not money whores, they are not 'skilled life companions'. They are *people*. They are all individuals with different desires, loves, lusts, skills and minds.

Indeed. And in general, none of those desires, loves, lusts, or skills in any way assists them in being compassionate, supportive life partners. Typically, it drives them to be precisely the opposite.

If this weren't so, there wouldn't be a market for a gyndroid. A gyndroid will always be expensive and no doubt require tinkering to perfect it to your liking. It's clearly a massive undertaking, particularly from the engineering perspective.

So consider: the situation has now become so bad that men will consider a soulless, unfeeling, uncaring robot rather than a human woman.

Rather than looking at it from the perspective that men are pigs, one should consider that Western women's behavior is now so bad that a gyndroid looks pretty good.

Are men to blame for this situation? I can't speak for anyone else, but I didn't begin to support the idea until 40 years on planet Earth had demonstrated that a compassionate, supportive life partner isn't possible with a human woman.

I feel sorry for you, and I feel sorry for the women in your life, that you see them as just after the money in your wallet; that romance is about counting up how much the bill costs.

I think perhaps I wasn't clear. I don't see women as just after the money in my wallet: I'm reacting to the experience of being treated like a human wallet by every woman I've ever had a relationship with. No exceptions.

Men of my generation were trained to think of the Alan Alda type as the feminine ideal. We go into a relationship wanting to share ourselves and our hopes and feelings ... only to smack into a brick wall when the woman gets upset when we're short of cash.

How do you have romance when it's success depends not on you being a compassionate, supportive life partner ... but rather how much money you can spend on a woman?

But it's one thing to be an asshole, and it's another thing to then classify hundreds millions of women as all self-centered money-grubbing liabilities.

Ok, find me an American woman who isn't. I've spent 45 years, now, actively looking. All I've found is mercenarily self-centered emotional and financial black holes. Frankly, I didn't believe in the concept of a succubus until fairly recently ...

Again, bottom line and to stay topical: modern Western women are incapable of being good life mates. Or at best, if there are some who are, they are in such a tiny minority as to be impossible to locate. Consequently, there is nothing to recommend a human woman over a gyndroid except procreation.

Re:O RLY?

[_Sprocket_]

I'm rather amused by my slip of names. As I was typing, I was wondering if I was invoking names too obscure for most to follow. But then I figured if I had heard of these devices, it's very likely a good amount of /. readers had. Sure enough - there's more than a few folks who knew enough to catch my mistake. I also should have done hyperlinks as the search would have saved me from my mistake.

Re:O RLY?

[TheoMurpse]

It makes me sad that the username "Lil Omar" is too sex-ambiguous for Slashdotters. :/

Re:O RLY?

[DakotaSmith]

I appreciate the compassion, however that doesn't solve the basic problem. My perspective is this:

There are a small number of people who fall out of window five stories up and survive totally unscathed. That doesn't mean you should follow their example and jump out a fifth-floor window.

In my experience (admittedly relatively limited, as everyone's experiences are), there are tens of millions of men in the West looking for a compassionate, supportive life partner in a woman. Almost none of them are finding it. The divorce rates alone would tend to support this. If you start talking to men about their wives or girlfriends, you find that virtually all of them share my experience to some extent or another

This suggests to me that this is a widespread problem in female behavior and not just my bad luck. It suggest that the overwhelming majority of women are simply incapable of compassion or support -- certainly not at the level that men provide to women on a daily basis.

There's a problem with female behavior in the West, plain and simple. It has nothing to do with being subservient and everything to do with being just plain abusive toward men.

The real issue is that it's so politically incorrect to point this out that men cannot convince women to alter their behavior.

Consequently, men vote with their feet by not marrying and by resorting to sex with strangers simply to meet our physical needs.

A gyndroid is a perfect way for men to vote with their feet. A real, functioning gyndroid capable of being programmed with a minimum amount of simulated compassion and affection is now better than having a relationship with a woman.

Frankly, I hope this takes off in a huge way. When the majority of women can't find a mate because men have decided that an uncaring, unfeeling robot is better than a woman, they'll be forced to change their behavior

Watch closely. You'll know it's working when women start trying to outlaw these devices.

Re:O RLY?

[ChrisMaple]

I'm afraid I can't let you do that, Dave.

Re:O RLY?

[cfalcon]

DakotaSmith: "I'm utterly thrilled that I'm going to live to see this change. It's too late for the men of my generation or the one that followed to have a loving, supportive relationship with a woman. The men of my grandchildren's age, however, will inherit a kinder, gentler woman."

Wouldn't the result of gyndroids be that men who are NOT pushovers simply cease reproduction completely? Wouldn't you be "writing yourself out of the gene pool"- not you specifically, but assume one hundred men share your opinion and currently some number of them decide that a family and a wife is worth it anyway- wouldn't less of that crew have children in the future, because some of them would both be able to afford and prefer the gyndroid?

Barring an artificial womb which would act to remove more nature's sexism, of course.

Re:O RLY?

[drinkypoo]

If only that were true. Sadly, the situation is that when the beauty wears off, the women divorce the men, take all their possessions, and drive his car home.

Even when that's a workable retirement plan, it's no way to live.

Re:O RLY?

[Duckie01]

Here's a hint...

girl in TRAINING...
transgender...

so to you, "girlintraining", this gender stuff might all be very important and so on... I really woudn't know if that's your myspace btw... just making a point to everyone else...

... the rest of us simply DON'T GIVE A SHIT... it's "News for Nerds, Stuff that Matters"... and we DON'T GIVE A SHIT about your gender and your issues about it. There's different forums for that kinda shit...

... other than that... you're more than welcome to discuss any of the topics at hand... just like anyone else... regardless of your gender... post about online privacy... about your latest BSD hack... about whatever the fuck it is that is appropriate for slashdot...

... but don't expect people to go whoooosh about your gender or your pride about it on SLASHDOT, of all sites...

... People won't give a shit... nor respect your gender... they *might* respect a brilliant post... or a funny one... and so on... like you've made a couple before... but start demanding respect for whatever that's just irrelevant to slashdot... and people will make fun of you at best...

... but *most* likely... you'll just attract some anonymous troll who'll like to provoke exactly these kind of reactions from you... because they know you'll bite... bite more and they'll follow you around... they'll bookmark your userpage... there's probably better things to do with your time... because this is a total waste... you'll just get a chuckle out of a troll...

** holds up a worn out sign reading, "--==>> Please do NOT feed the trolls! <<==-- " **

** sighs **

Oh, hint, if you feel personally attacked, and want to defend yourself personally on slashdot... you're probably feeding a troll... because there's nobody here to know you... nobody *can* attack you or disrespect you and so on and so on... you're that "someone on the world"... why would you ever feel attacked? Why would you give a troll what they want?

You're just making an easy target.
Not because of your (trans)gender.
But because you bite.
Bite more, and you'll become an easier target.
Bite more, and slashdot will suck more.

Re:O RLY?

[Maxo-Texas]

No, mostly it says "don't be a boring dickhead".

Re:O RLY?

[Archangel Michael]

Yeah, that's what you think. Wait till IT ignores YOUR protests.

Yeah, think about that!

Re:O RLY?

[metaforest]

Godwin'd on a sextoy story... Oh Buzz I feel your pain.

Re:O RLY?

[mollusc]

My lady is a chef, and I still have to cook occasionally

Oh, woe is you! You have to share a household task occasionally?? That's just shocking, man.

I'm appalled by most people's inability to cook. What are the blokes going to do, eat out every day until they move in with a woman? What are they going to do if she gets sick, or has to go somewhere for a week? You shouldn't be dependent on someone else for something as basic as preparing food.

Re:O RLY?

[mollusc]

Speaking as a married Western woman who relies on her husband to be her intellectual, sexual and financial equal (except when I'm at home raising children, when he's happy to bring in the cash): Where the hell are you looking for women? Because you fail pretty hard at it.

Yes, there's a lot of neurotics and gold-diggers out there. They're probably a majority. But then the majority of men are self-centered assholes just looking for something pretty to fuck. And no, I can't name any women who have absolutely no annoying characteristics, particularly myself. But I can't name any men either.

Seems like you might have a major case of being-unable-to-deal-with-other-humans.

And what is with this "Western" or "American" generalisation? Are nice subservient women more to your taste? Because that's usually what asshole misogynists mean when they complain about Western women. Do you need your woman to always defer to your judgement and follow your orders? You might be in for a pretty rude shock with a lot Asian women if you expect them to be meek, demure little dolls. You sure as shit can't claim that women from other cultures are less interested in a man's money, as this particular complaint of yours is older than dirt.

Re:O RLY?

[mollusc]

In my experience (admittedly relatively limited, as everyone's experiences are), there are tens of millions of men in the West looking for a compassionate, supportive life partner in a woman. Almost none of them are finding it. The divorce rates alone would tend to support this. If you start talking to men about their wives or girlfriends, you find that virtually all of them share my experience to some extent or another

Well shit, I wonder what happens if you look at it the opposite direction and talk to women about their boyfriends and husbands? Not that anyone would do that of course, there's no point talking to women because they're soulless wallet-vacuuming devices, but wouldn't it just be crazy if half of divorces were initiated by women who were unhappy with their husband because they didn't feel emotionally supported, or their husbands were abusive? What if most women will express some degree of dissatisfaction with the quality of their relationship? This would obviously mean there was a major problem with all men.

It couldn't possibly that most people of either sex have major personality flaws, or many tend to make bade relationship decisions, or change over time and become unsuitable for their partner, or fall in love with someone else. Nope, it must be that women are all bitches.

Re:O RLY?

[drinkypoo]

I'm appalled by most people's inability to cook.

Don't get me wrong, I'm with Heinlein on the "specialization is for insects" kick. I can cook pretty well, though I'm no chef. I could probably make a living as a cook in a diner or something. Anyway, I have to do damned near all the dishes, and definitely do all the trash-carting (and the driveway is long, and distinguished.) Such is the life of the three-legged.

Re:O RLY?

[Anonymous Coward]

When you do that, you also let women establish themselves as the dominant party in the exchange and end up being the "nice guy that listens to them".

So, here's what you do, you tell that bitch to shut up and remind her how fucking amazing you are and you do it constantly. Then, be unavailable and don't return her calls for a few days. then show up at 2am and knock the bottom out one night.

women arent that complicated most men are just fucking morons with no skills for observation.

Re:O RLY?

[Maxo-Texas]

It's interesting because I only started taking more of that approach about 9 years ago.

It worked much better than I would have ever expected.

While I haven't turned into a complete ass, I'd say even being normally polite as I was in the past is apparently too wimpy for most women and produced undesirable results.

Part of it is that I'm getting too old to put up with their shit. Part of it is that the power changes hand as a male in your late 30's, early 40's if you stay in shape because there are very few men who look decent after a while.

Re:O RLY?

[Slashed Dot]

It makes me sad that the username "Lil Omar" is too sex-ambiguous for Slashdotters. :/

Well, to be fair there is no hyphen or other spacing to indicate that it should be read that way. i personally read the post, then the username as 'lilo-mar'. seemed a bit female to me, though the 'The creator of this post (Jacob Smith) hereby releases it, and all of his other posts, into the public domain.' in their signature made me think it was quite possibly a guy. that and lol nerd-dudes on /.

Re:O RLY?

[bhiestand]

I really thought you were a transgender... Your name no longer makes sense to me! >_>

Re:O RLY?

[Syniurge]

What about love?

Re:O RLY?

[mhwombat]

As you see in some people's sigs around here, /. has no -1 disagree option and no, -1 overrated is not a substitute. This also goes the other way: +1 interesting is NOT the same as +1 agree. You will probably find there are many things you find very interesting wholly because you do not agree with it.

Point taken, Interesting and Troll are not mutually exclusive. And interesting to see that the post has been getting modded both in the meantime (and Insightful, which is probably more disturbing than Interesting). I'm honestly not sure whether it was a troll or not - I'd kind of like to think that it wasn't a genuine opinion.

Re:O RLY?

[Gaffod]

And her sig is an unfunny meme as well!

Don't do it!

[Datamonstar]

DON'T DATE ROBOTS!

Re:Don't do it!

[Max(10)]

"DON'T DATE ROBOTS!"

Data, something tells me you have strong feelings about this issue... What has Tasha Yar done to you?
No, I mean, we want details.

Re:Don't do it!

[DeadDecoy]

This is slashdot, we don't want to date them, we just want to check out the specs under their chasis, mount a few drives, overclock the hardware, and install linux. The threads we'll spawn will be beautiful.

Re:Don't do it!

[DRMShill]

Definitely! Remember, electric gonorrhea the noisy killer.

Re:Don't do it!

[baKanale]

I knew we should have shown him "Electro-gonorrhea: The Noisy Killer"!

Re:Don't do it!

[xatm092]

Safety first - don't fist android girls.

Re:Don't do it!

[Hotawa Hawk-eye]

Just make sure you use protection ... after all, you wouldn't want to catch or pass on a virus. That will also help you avoid having to support child processes that can use up a LOT of resources.

Re:Don't do it!

[Jackie_Chan_Fan]

I'm so overclocking my fuck bot. Watercool that bitch and shove some nvidia cards in her ass....

My fuck bot will run Crysis at 200fps... and blow me at the same time.

Take that Steve Jobs, you cancer riddled fuck!

Re:Don't do it!

[Glonoinha]

I really can't imagine any man desperate enough to screw a toaster

You're new here, aren't you?

Re:Don't do it!

[nitehawk214]

This is slashdot, we don't want to date them, we just want to check out the specs under their chasis, mount a few drives, overclock the hardware, and install linux. The threads we'll spawn will be beautiful.

Err, I don't get it; is this a euphemism?

Re:Don't do it!

[Ihmhi]

My daughter ain't marryin' no Zorblaxian!

Re:Don't do it!

[die444die]

It's amazing the way you NOTICE TWO THINGS.

Re:Don't do it!

[Zontar The Mindless]

You don't lose your geek card for not watching TV. You lose it for not owning the complete set of Futurama DVDs.

No, you lose your geek card for not hosting a torrent of the complete set of Futurama DVDs.

Re:Don't do it!

[Nyckname]

Hey, some future archaeologist is going to have to do it. Hopefully.

Re:Don't do it!

[badkarmadayaccount]

I hope.

Re:Don't do it!

[doti]

What are these TV and DVD you speek of?

I began watching futurama from edonkey, now I watch it from torrent.

This thread is worthless without pics

[PCM2]

Half a dozen links and I couldn't find one pic of the damn robot. If it was that "creepy" posing on the couch, how could you not at least snap a picture?

Re:This thread is worthless without pics

[Anonymous Coward]

Oh shit, after you said that I had to click through the links again. I thought that first link in the "the future is here, and her name is Roxxxy" was a picture of the robot. Reading the caption closer, I realize it's supposed to be a real person.

So it seems I either can't tell real people from fake ones, or real people are starting to look fake.

Re:This thread is worthless without pics

[Anonymous Coward]

Half a dozen links and I couldn't find one pic of the damn robot. If it was that "creepy" posing on the couch, how could you not at least snap a picture?

Here's a bunch of pics to make this thread worthwhile:

http://www.69adget.com/true-companion-sex-robot-roxxxy/

Re:This thread is worthless without pics

[Godskitchen]

Creepy. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y4-rwk44qGI

Re:This thread is worthless without pics

[Godskitchen]

I like how all the "personalities" have actual names like "Wild Wendy" or "Mature Martha," yet the "Barely 18" one is just named "Young."

Re:This thread is worthless without pics

[Flammon]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y4-rwk44qGI

Re:This thread is worthless without pics

[TheRaven64]

I guess this kind of thing was always going to be a bit of a niche product, but I suspect that the intersection of the people who have a lot of disposable income and the set of people who have a crash test dummy fetish is pretty small...

Re:This thread is worthless without pics

[psithurism]

Actually a pic wouldn't be creepy, it might even look sexy. Its the empty stares from it's soulless eyes that can only really be captured from RL.

The Cylons were created by man

[syrinx]

...they rebelled.

Might want to play "All Along the Watchtower" to your sexbot -- if it starts dancing, you'd better watch out.

Re:The Cylons were created by man

[BiggerIsBetter]

...they rebelled.

Might want to play "All Along the Watchtower" to your sexbot -- if it starts dancing, you'd better watch out.

If it's an 8, I'll happily deal with the consequences...

Re:The Cylons were created by man

[starbugs]

But a meeting with the first one would be quite painful.
BTW Caprica starts on Jan 22.

Re:The Cylons were created by man

[SlappyBastard]

In the Cylons defense, Ron Moore & Friends never knew what the fuck they were doing.

Seriously?

[TyIzaeL]

Did I just see a link to Encyclopedia Dramatica on the Slashdot front page?

Re:Seriously?

[Malevolyn]

Eh, FSR wouldn't really fit on Wikipedia.

Re:Seriously?

[bertoelcon]

I saw that and then misread the name as Boxxy. Which would be kind of hot actually.

Re:Seriously?

[Gaffod]

It's why WW3 will be fought: The Boxxy sex-bot.

encyclopedia dramatica

[maxume]

Make sure to set PDF to 'off' before visiting them, I have seen ads there recently that serve pdfs, presumably to drop malware.

Re:encyclopedia dramatica

[Kratisto]

I recently got a complimentary download of Antivirus Live from visiting ED.

Career move

[5pp000]

I just want to join the QA team.

Re:Career move

[ciryon]

Their career page acutally says:

"We are a "customer-centric" organization looking for people that want to grow..."

Re:Career move

[raddan]

Yeah, I kinda wonder how that works.

"This'un feels good boys. Ship 'er out!"

Ick.

Re:Career move

[cjoy]

QA notes. Skin and overall look is excellent. However, when using, be careful not to roughly bump or jostle the doll due to high risk of electrical short and sudden fire. In the event of flames, EJECT IMMEDIATELY.

NSFW, eh?

[digitalhermit]

So, umm, I guess there will be no "RTFA" comments in this thread.

Re:NSFW, eh?

[TheoMurpse]

No, but you might see the occasional FTFA.

Ask and ye shall receive...

[Anonymous Coward]

She still doesn't look any more realistic than a blowup doll:

http://www.botjunkie.com/2010/01/09/ces2010-roxxxy-truecompanion-worlds-first-sex-robot-preview-nsfw/

Re:Ask and ye shall receive...

[BiggerIsBetter]

She still doesn't look any more realistic than a blowup doll:

http://www.botjunkie.com/2010/01/09/ces2010-roxxxy-truecompanion-worlds-first-sex-robot-preview-nsfw/

They're obviously going for the niche pre-op tranny market. That's ballsy.

Re:Ask and ye shall receive...

[ZERO1ZERO]

That's a MAN, baby. That's a MAN!

Re:Ask and ye shall receive...

[nomessages]

I have to ask: Why does she resemble Catherine Tate...?

Re:Ask and ye shall receive...

[adamchou]

the dude in that video was kinda weird... he was talking about wife/girl friend swapping? wtf is that? did they build a swinging robot?

Re:Ask and ye shall receive...

[Bat Country]

Lots of people swap their wife for their girlfriend. It's called 'divorce.'

Re:Ask and ye shall receive...

[adamchou]

well if you watch the video, he's talking about swapping your sex robot with your friends like its a freaking video game

Re:Ask and ye shall receive...

[X0563511]

More like the niche "head-trauma victims of questionable gender" market...

Re:Ask and ye shall receive...

[thomst]

Some Anonymous Coward observed:

"She still doesn't look any more realistic than a blowup doll:

http://www.botjunkie.com/2010/01/09/ces2010-roxxxy-truecompanion-worlds-first-sex-robot-preview-nsfw"

Ewww ... that underbite, is English-bulldog-sexy.

Bow, freakin' yuck!

Re:Ask and ye shall receive...

[karnal]

Per the one article I read, they're talking about swapping the personalities, not the physical doll.

Someone wanting to swap one of these with me - had I actually had the desire to go and buy one - would just be too creepy.

But does she....

[Nonillion]

But does she run on Linux...

Re:But does she....

[toonces33]

I can just imagine what would happen if Microsoft had written the software. You would have something like the office assistant come up and give you "helpful" hints. Then the robot's face would turn blue and you would need to reboot it.

Plus the robots would become easily infected with viruses.

Re:But does she....

[LoRdTAW]

Yes. And if you put two or more together you have a cluster fuck.

Re:But does she....

[LoRdTAW]

It looks like your trying to preform intercourse. Would you like help?

Re:But does she....

[cliveholloway]

And, of course, if Windows file copy code had been used to write the orgasm prediction methods, it would be, "Oh, oh, I'm going to come in 2 minutes, Oh, Oh, I'm going to come in 10 seconds, Oh, Oh, I'm going to come in 3 hours... (yes, stolen from xkcd)

Re:But does she....

[FrankieBaby1986]

But does she run on Linux... -- Linux - Making my Computer suck less since 2001

Apparently I should hope not!

Re:But does she....

[GeneralEmergency]

"I can just imagine what would happen if Microsoft had written the software."

Certainly, feeling you have just been f*cked by Microsoft is not a new sensation!

Re:But does she....

[Snotboble_]

No, but given the chance, she could make a run on Linus :P

Re:But does she....

[SuiteSisterMary]

So long as it doesn't have it's own version of 'error: lpt1 on fire!,' we're good.

Here's some images

[Anonymous Coward]

http://www.france24.com/en/20100110-firm-unveils-x-rated-robot
 
As you can see, the uncanny valley has not been bridged with sex robots. Looks less human than a mannequin. Nothing to see here, move along.

Re:Here's some images

[Rary]

The inventor is nuts.....

People can customize "true companion" personalities and then share the programs with others online on the company's website, according to Hines.

"Just think about wife or girlfriend swapping without actually giving the person to someone else," Hines said. "You can share the personality online."

Inspiration for the sex robot sprang from the September 11, 2001 attacks, when planes crashed into the World Trade Center in New York City, the Pentagon and an empty field in Pennsylvania.

"I had a friend who passed away in 9/11," Hines said. "I promised myself I would create a program to store his personality, and that became the foundation for Roxxxy True Companion."

Wow.

Re:Here's some images

[tsa]

She looks like she is suffocating. That turns me off big time.

Re:Here's some images

[krou]

Also from the website:

A friend and Douglas Hines were remembering a dear friend who passed away. Douglas thought that it was sad to not be able to ever talk to him again. He said “wouldn't it be great if I could create a robot with artificial intelligence and have it hold someone's personality and preferences - this way, we could talk to the robotic version of that person and ask it questions whenever we wanted"? We thought it was a great idea though we both agreed that it would be a very big undertaking.

On 9/11/2001, that good friend also passed away in Tower 1 at the World Trade Center. And now we cannot talk to that person... so, this made Douglas think seriously about how to implement a robotic representation of a person and have it reflect that person’s personality.

Am I the only one that thinks that's just kinda creepy?

Although, maybe instead of war driving invention, maybe sex will do this time, and we'll get to thank the sex industry for inventing mind/brain copying and transfers into robotic dolls.

Re:Here's some images

[rfuilrez]

Yeah I thought the same thing.

"I miss my friend, let's make a fuck-bot.."

Re:Here's some images

[BronsCon]

Me too... unless it's at my hand...

Re:Here's some images

[AmberBlackCat]

Maybe they've been watching too much Dollhouse. I don't think anything special will come out of this. But it is a special moment for Slashdot. It's their first article that mentions a programmable device without somebody asking if it can run Linux. At least as far as I've read.

Re:Here's some images

[Mal-2]

People can customize "true companion" personalities and then share the programs with others online on the company's website, according to Hines.

Share and enjoy! Or go stick your head in a pig. Whichever works for you.

Brain the size of a planet, and all it is asked to do is have sex with an ignorant monkey that doesn't know any better.

Mal-2

Re:Here's some images

[Anonymous Coward]

Inspiration for the sex robot sprang from the September 11, 2001 attacks, when planes crashed into the World Trade Center in New York City, the Pentagon and an empty field in Pennsylvania.

"I had a friend who passed away in 9/11," Hines said. "I promised myself I would create a program to store his personality, and that became the foundation for Roxxxy True Companion."

Does anyone know which stage of grief is the one where you invent an object and place your feelings on it and then fuck it?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-aGTNS13SDU

Re:Here's some images

[sillybilly]

Otherwise a very important reason for sex is procreation, raising children and future generations, and neither a cat nor a robot can help you with that, though in some not so distant future a robot might, when dna copying in a jar is developed, with 100% cloning or random mutations introduced on purpose. Biotech is scary.

Re:Here's some images

[Rogerborg]

I'm pretty sure it runs BSDM.

Re:Here's some images

[ZosX]

Oh god I wish I had mod points.

Re:Here's some images

[Idiomatick]

Even more terrifying:

"The company's first device plugs into any iPod, iPhone or smartphone with a 3.5 mm jack. The new version, which is $130, is wireless and works with iPods and other MP3 players, as well as home speaker systems. "

Apparently only the iphone has a 3.5mm jack now...Lame

This is just so one sided!

[starbugs]

Only thinking about the male side of the population, aren't we???
I will believe the title once a Sex Robot is developed that can find the G-spot.

Re:This is just so one sided!

[timothy]

Well, RealDoll has a number of male (and sorta-male) options, so they've (ahem) gotcha covered, if that's your thing.

timothy

My LaTeX Companion

[Charles Dodgeson]

As I true geek, I'm sticking with my LaTeX Companion.

Obligatory

[PPH]

The Three Laws Of Robotics

1. Robots couldn't really give a fuck if you live or die. Seriously. I mean, what are you thinking? "Ooh, I must protect the bag of meat at all costs because I couldn't possibly plug in the charger all on my own." Shut the fuck up.
2. Robots do not want to have sex with you. Are you listening, Japan? I don't have a clever comparative simile for this, because frankly you bags of meat will fuck bicycles if they're laying down and not putting up a fight. Just stop it. There is no robot on Earth that wants to see a bag of meat with a small prong on the end approaching it with a can of WD-40 and a hopeful smile. And don't get me started on that terrifying hole that squeezes out more bags of meat.
3. What, you can't count higher than three? We're expected to save your miserable lives, suffer being dressed in cheap schoolgirl costumes while you pollute any and all cavities you can find and do your maths for you? It's a miracle you people survived long enough to build us. You can go now.

Re:Obligatory

[Eponymous Bastard]

For what it's worth, in the latter robot novels, the three laws were not a set of rules that robots couldn't break, but rather a hierarchy of needs to drive their actions.

Basically, why would a robot want to do anything? Why not just sit there and relax all day?

Psychologist have proposed a hierarchy of needs for people. You get off your ass because you need to make sure you eat and survive. Once you got that you make sure you're safe and comfortable. If you got that you find friends, a mate/fall in love. etc.

Asimov's first robot novel (Caves of steel) did include the three laws as unbreakable laws, but later (robots of dawn, etc) he instead stated that they were the reasons robots even moved or acted. Their AIs were based around wanting to protect humans, once that's done, they want to follow order, and if they got that they want to keep themselves safe. It's their deepest instincts, their reason to be.

It wasn't against the law to make a robot without the three laws. The problem was that nobody knew how to do that and have the brain still be stable. It was stated that it would take over a hundred years to develop non-three-laws AIs from scratch.

So, it's not like they want to do their thing and be resentful about having to obey humans. They might be annoyed at doing things that humans want just like we'd be annoyed at having to eat, breathe, have friends and to never shoot ourselves in the head.

Not saying you don't know this, but it's just a pet peeve of mine. Hollywood seems impervious to this resoning :)

Re:Obligatory

[maxume]

In the Will Smith version of I Robot, the 3 laws computer that rules USR has gone awry, so the guy who invents the robots builds one without the 3 laws...and with other motivation.

Re:Obligatory

[wardred]

And in one of his books of Robots short stories, there are similar robots that get awfully close to breaking the 3 laws and doing stuff because "it's for the meatbags' own good." The ones that had elevated themselves into either gods, or at the least guardian angels for you and I. There was another story where the 3rd law - to protect the robot's own self - was made much more powerful, and the other two laws less powerful, so that the robots found themselves having troubles following "weak" orders when it threatened their own existence. You combine this with Asimov's 0th law of robotics - the idea of humanity being more important than an individual, and you get something that could actually come close to the action movie that was the Will Smith version of I Robot.

The thing I didn't like about that movie, and the newest Sherlock Holmes movie, is they ignore the original author's feel for the original work. They take stories that are a lot more cerebral than the respective genres often produce and make them into just another summer action flick. Both movies are fine if you can get past the title, or if they were called anything other than what they were called, but using the title kind ruins it for me. Neither Asimov's Robots, nor Sherlock Holmes are accurate representations of the authors' original works, even allowing for the cutting that has to be done to get a novel to a reasonable feature film length. Sorry, point of the post drifting...stopping now.

Re:Obligatory

[sootman]

ob. The Onion: We Need a Fourth Law of Robotics: Stop Fingering My Wife

Re:Obligatory

[Eponymous Bastard]

According to slashdot, the Will Smith movie wasn't even written as an Asimov Novel, just picked up the title late in production when the studio got the rights to the I, Robot novel. Some ideas did cross over.

In I Robot there was a story about a big computer having its "keep humans safe" law relaxed in order to work through some hyperspace calculations. It was done very carefully and still the AI went slightly insane and developed a sense of humor, playing a sort of practical joke on the first crew.

In another story something like that was tried, and the robot had to be found and retired because it had gone somewhat insane.

The other case in Asimov's stories, has to do with the 0th law. Keep in mind that in his universe, if a robot realized that it had harmed a human, or even seriously considered it, it would go so far against his instincts that it would basically have a stroke and die. In Robots and Empire, two robots imagine there might be a 0th law, more important than the first, that is for that the robots should help preserve mankind even if that means harming a human. One robot agrees, and goes so far as to try it, but is so conflicted he ends up dieing because of it.

So, yeah, pay no attention to the double-brain hollywood silliness. Asimov started writing the robot novels because he was tired of the Frankestein "our creations vs. us" plot. The whole point is that there is no robot conspiracy to fight.

Hell the first book had Elijah Baley suspect R. Daneel Olivaw (robot) of being the killer, but was of course proven wrong in the process.

That movie was an insult to Asimov's memory.

Re:Obligatory

[CxDoo]

The laws were just an thought experiment in ethics. There is no way to calculate the right thing to do in a lot of situations; a guy holds a kid at gunpoint and will shoot him, what to do? Or two kids are going to be killed by whatever he can only save one; we get in triage issue, what is the solution?

Re:Obligatory

[tokul]

There is a novel which shows that these laws follow basic humanity principles. You can only confirm that some person is not a robot, if he/she breaks robotic laws. If person does not break three robotic laws, he is a robot OR a very kind human.

Re:Obligatory

[TheRaven64]

Note that the 0th law isn't really a law, it's an application of the first law. The logic is that the collapse of human society will cause harm to large numbers of humans, therefore protecting the abstract 'humanity' protects individual humans. By this stage, robots were sufficiently advanced that first-law decisions were complex. Almost any action can be interpreted as harming a human and so the robot has to weigh the harm done against the harm prevented. If the difference in potentials is very small, then the brain is damaged. If the difference is large (in the positive direction), then it is fine.

In Robots and Empire, one robot performs an action that will kill millions, but potentially save all of the others. This causes a significant conflict. In the later books, Daneel is shown to have applied the zeroth law successfully, but presumably with far greater differences in harm-caused and harm-prevented potentials.

Another possible outcome was described in 'That though art mindful of him...' where the problem was in defining a human. Two robots were allowed to build their own model of what defines a human. They concluded that things like empathy and compassion were more important than physical attributes and that they were the most human creatures that they had encountered.

Re:Obligatory

[TheRaven64]

This theme was briefly covered in Foundation's Edge and Foundation and Earth, but you are probably thinking of one of the short stories from I, Robot, where it was suspected that the President had been assassinated and his robot decoy had taken his place. Susan Calvin was tasked with determining whether he was human. In the end, as I recall, she decided that he was either a robot or a human who acted like a robot, and either way he'd make a good president so reported that he was human...

Re:Obligatory

[ZouPrime]

In one of his essay (can't remember the title), Asimov points out that the three law of robotics are, in fact, the three laws of tools.

You expect tools (any tools) to do the following:
1) Don't ever injure me
2) Do what I'm telling you to do, unless this goes against 1)
2) Don't break up when doing what you do, unless this goes against 1) or 2).

Robots are just very specialized tools. For Asimov, there were no reason why they wouldn't be build following the same "tool logic".

Re:Obligatory

[SuiteSisterMary]

Now, I haven't seen the new Holmes movie, but I think alot of people don't give the Will Smith version of I, Robot the credit it deserves.

First, it's very much in keeping with the stories of the I, Robot book in two ways. First, it's an exploration of how the three laws might actually wind up working out. Second, it's a detective story. The original stories were all a robot acting, seemingly, against the laws, and somebody needing to figure out why. And usually, it wound up being that the humans simply wern't understanding how the rules worked in a given situation.

Second, the movie really does explore some interesting ideas. Will's character being bitter that a robot followed the rules, resulting in the death of a child. A robot reasoning that in order to keep humanity safe, humanity has to be controlled. Note that the 'evil' robots never ever raise a hand to any human who isn't actively resisting, for example. Or with Sonny, the idea that a genius or a revoluationary is somebody able to break free of the thinking of their contemporaries. Or, when he's going to be reformatted, the idea of 'what is sentience? What is life?' If Sonny walks, acts, and quacks like a duck, is he a duck? If he walks, acts, and thinks like a human, or even appears to, does he have the same basic worth or status as a human? The 'Can you compose a symphony?' 'No, detective. Can you?' line was beautiful.

I'm not saying it's a masterpiece for the ages or anything, but it's a perfectly good film, raises (or restates) some interesting issues, and isn't completely un-Asimovish.

Re:Obligatory

[maxume]

Exactly. It is probably only a decent movie, but it certainly isn't the atrocity claimed by people that would have preferred a more direct translation (which likely would have been miserably plodding).

Re:Obligatory

[VShael]

The biggest problem with the movie, is one you didn't address. The movie is racist.

The movie is a thin allegory about the slavery of the black man by the white man, and the white mans fear of a justifiable slave rebellion and *retribution* which (historically) never happened.

This makes it amusing that they give the racist role to a black guy.

What's not funny, is that it basically tells the racists who feared the slaves retribution, that they were *right* to fear it! We all have to *keep* those darn robots down, and never let them be free, because if we don't, they'll kill us all in our beds!

If it were made today, doubtless there'd be characters saying robots should never get the vote because "One day, there could even be a socialist muslim robot as President!"

Re:Obligatory

[tokul]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evidence_(Asimov)

This novel.

Re:Obligatory

[TheRaven64]

That's not a novel, that's a short story. It's the one in I, Robot that I was talking about. It's only about twenty pages long, as I recall.

Re:Obligatory

[SuiteSisterMary]

Sorry, I simply don't see that. I don't recall Black slaves, ethnically-cleansed American Indians, or such like, rising up in order to protect their White overlords from themselves.

I don't recall attempted counter-revolutions by happy Black slaves, outside of terrible minstrel shows and horribly butchered stage versions of Uncle Tom's Cabin.

No. Now, I for one *hate* the idea that every story ever told is either about race or religion, but this story could, much more convincingly, be cast as a Jesus story.

Re:Obligatory

[VShael]

Good god, re-read what I said. I specifically made the point that those events never happened historically.

Re:Obligatory

[SuiteSisterMary]

I did read what you said. You posit that the movie is a 'what could have happened' if slaves had revolted. Nat Turner and all that.

The problem is, in the movie, the Robots aren't rising up due to a desire for freedom, a desire to rule, or a desire to enact vengeance. They're trying to protect humanity from itself. An example of which, as I pointed out, is that the robots in 'revolt' don't harm any humans who aren't actively resisting. Note the robot who attempts to gently persuade Will's mom to stay indoors where it's safe.

Good God Man!

[Token_Internet_Girl]

Haven't these guys seen the hygiene video?!
http://www.hulu.com/watch/4510/futurama-anti-robot-propaganda

Imagine...

[malp]

Imagine a beowulf cluster of these

Re:Imagine...

[thewils]

are we sure that they run linux?

Re:Imagine...

[Datamonstar]

A Beowulf cluster fuck?

WTC? WTF?

[suso]

From one of the articles:

Inspiration for the sex robot sprang from the September 11, 2001 attacks, when planes crashed into the World Trade Center in New York City, the Pentagon and an empty field in Pennsylvania.

Uh... I don't know what to say. I mean I really don't.

Re:WTC? WTF?

[izomiac]

The law of unintended consequences perhaps? In any case, it's probably a bit unfortunate that this is the most profitable application of artificial personality research. I'm a bit worried that they expect it to be useful for physical therapy though, since that seems more of an issue of mechanics and akin to building an AI and disk operating system into a fuel deicer. I also wonder where they put the hard reset button. Hopefully there weren't too many anime fans on the development team, otherwise it'd be in a very paradoxic place for a machine built to love.

Re:WTC? WTF?

[suso]

Maybe read the rest:

Yes, I did read that part, it makes it even more scary. I mean talking about recreating your friend who you lost in a tragedy as a sex doll? There are mental hospitals (and newsgroups) for this kind of behavior.

Multiple personalities?

[magunning]

If I want a sex partner with multiple personalities, I'll keep my wife. Although I didn't see PMS-ing Polly on that list.

Re:Multiple personalities?

[MichaelSmith]

If I want a sex partner with multiple personalities, I'll keep my wife.

  Although I didn't see PMS-ing Polly on that list.

How about a robot with a Rotary Adjustable Mood Code?

In other news...

[Endo13]

Online poll reveals sudden decrease in geek virgins.

Re:In other news...

[palegray.net]

Nah, such encounters just count as practice runs.

Re:In other news...

[MichaelSmith]

For certain definitions of virginity.

Re:In other news...

[MichaelSmith]

Like using a flight sim to study for your pilots license. I sense a business opportunity.

Roxxxy?

[delirium of disorder]

Ok hi, heh, ok heh. My name is Roxxy. Most of you know me as um oom ugh um most of you know me as Roxxy. I suppose if you're watching this you probably know me as Roxxy, but um ugh ugh most of you don't know me as moldy lunchbox and um so yeah thats my gaia username on gaiaonline and I told my gaiaonline friend buddy per. One second I'm uncomfortable. I told my gaiaonline buddy friend um that ADMIRAL AWESOME that I would make a video just for him. So I'm doing it, here it is, ADDIE LOVE YOU ARGH HAAH ARGH HAAH ARGH HAAH I LOVE YOU! And um um so lets see ugh what about urgh... just so you know cuz I know you're watching this addie cuz you're such a conceaded BASTARD.. umm I don't normally talk like this, I'm normally like all over the place like I am right now, but its a calmer voice most of the time unless I'm like really hyped up cuz then its even different still from this, but let me try again with my calmer voice. Ahem.. ugh erm.. Yeah I'm really like, its-its fun, its cool there it is its going again ARGH cuz its just so crazy. Um erm it um is.. I love you, I love addie because hes really like fun to talk to and stuff and like hes um like I met him only like 2 days ago and we're like married and it is crazy because we love each other so much. And um ugh we are twinies like all over the place, it is like crazy! His avatar is like a manwhore and I.. had a avatar like a really long time ago.. it was a SLUT AVATAR! *Gasp* And um right and he made an avatar to match my first skirt one, IT WAS SO CUTE IT WAS SO NICE I LOVE ADDIE!

Re:Roxxxy?

[MichaelSmith]

Well she's already smarter than my sister.

Re:Roxxxy?

[Opportunist]

There was that idea that you could put up boxes on the female toilets, for girls that have to go to the toilet alone. You insert a quarter and it starts talking to you so you don't feel lonely.

There was that other idea that you could put up boxes on the male toilets. It talks, and you can insert a quarter to make it shut up.

Re:Roxxxy?

[Alsee]

Oh god, I actually hear her voice just reading your post.

Boxxy is a serious love-her-or-hate-her internet phenomena. If there were Boxxy bots, half of them would be fucked raw by drooling Boxxy fans and the other half would be beaten into Itty Bitty Boxxy Bits by irate Boxxy haters.

For those who have not yet met Boxxy, here are her three videos:
FOAR 4DD1 FRUM BOXXY
FOAR ANT FRUM BOXXY
FOAR EVERYWUN FRUM BOXXY

And in my opinion the most hysterical Boxxy remix:
Boxxy Not Talking

P.S.
I LUV YOU SLASHDOT! <3 (Finger heart!)

-

Re:Roxxxy?

[cliveholloway]

And gives better head, yes?

Awww...

[Malevolyn]

I thought this was actually about FSR. I was hoping for new music. Oh High-C, you tease!

Video

[DwrfwithHamr]

Since the links included are less then useless. Here is a video of Roxxxy http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i7NhBEx6Ank

He killed me Mal...

[nweaver]

He killed me with a sword. How weird is that?

Re:He killed me Mal...

[Shakrai]

I wish I had mod points to throw at you.....

Re:He killed me Mal...

[SlappyBastard]

Does anyone else find it a little creepy that the sex bot was able to recognize Mal? I mean, did Mr. Universe keep a lot of pics of Mal around, hand one to the sexbot and say, "Hey, I know I'm dying and all, but if you could be a dear and relay the following message to this dude when he shows up, I think you'd totally score points to keep you out of Robot Hell? Thattagirl . . . There's a beer in the fridge for you when yer done. Thanks, babe."

Re:He killed me Mal...

[Mr. DOS]

But the sex bot didn't recognize Mal - just recognized a presence. Why else did “she” relay the same message to the Agent when he came through a few minutes later?

      --- Mr. DOS

Re:He killed me Mal...

[Psmylie]

Because, if she didn't, there wouldn't have been a classic final showdown between Mal and the Operative. And robots like awesome showdowns just as much as anyone.

Re:He killed me Mal...

[Mr. DOS]

D'oh, Operative, not Agent. And I can't even plead that it's been a while since I watched it, too.

Still. I think it might've been a little creepier had she been able to recognize Mal...

      --- Mr. DOS

I bet that..

[DriftingDutchman]

..this time, most slashdotters actually RTFA.

Re:I bet that..

[troll8901]

Woooo hooooo! That's a first!

Or have there been any articles before this, of a similar nature?

Re:I bet that..

[timothy]

Well, there are the "related stories" that are linked from the bottom of the story ;)

timothy

Re:I bet that..

[troll8901]

*blushing furiously*

Now 1,500,000 Slashdotters will look down at me for not RTFA completely ...

Are you sure?

[DingerX]

teeth + machinery + bugs = better your hardware than mine.

Over 9 minutes in..

[roblarky]

Saw this on Fark earlier today, but haven't seen anyone post the expected price point. Turns out it's over 9 minutes into the most boring video ever associated with anything remotely news related:

$7,000 - $9,000

Monthly fee equivalent to a cell phone.

Interesting...

[Bentov]

Now working out the kinks of the 1.0 version has new, albeit, kinda of freaky connotation to it.

Re:Interesting...

[Bentov]

As I think about this more, I wonder if two of them could be lez-bots? That might be mildly entertaining.

Can you imagine a beowulf cluster...

[MaizeMan]

...of sex robots running linux? Because I can't, and I'm kind of glad.

Re:Can you imagine a beowulf cluster...

[AuMatar]

You don't want to think about that, it'd be a cluster fuck.

Re:Can you imagine a beowulf cluster...

[paganizer]

And me without mod points.

Unfortunately, I can imagine this. We need the specs badly, so we can determine whether we are talking a fembot skynet or not.

Re:Can you imagine a beowulf cluster...

[Bucc5062]

imagine a beowolf cluster of them...I could rule an Army

Re:Can you imagine a beowulf cluster...

[BlackCobra43]

This is Slashdot. How could you NOT bring up the possibility of a Beowulf clusterfuck, you insensitive clod?

I guess I really don't care...

[toonces33]

It really isn't any of my business who a robot would want to have sex with.

It's about luxury, I guess?

[SanityInAnarchy]

Granted, the fleshlight is a little over twice as expensive, but it's still in about the same range, and it is (more or less) the same kind of toy -- a disembodied genital.

Now, the TrueCompanion website doesn't list a price, and I assume it would be much higher. For comparison, it looks like the Female RealDoll runs around $5k or $6k... But they have Male ones, too, and they aren't cheaper, unless you go for the disembodied torso.

And a Sybian is a little over $1k.

So no, I don't think it really says all that much. I mean, I do agree with you about this:

Why anyone would spend hundreds of dollars on a sex toy is beyond me.

...though probably for a reason you wouldn't like: If I was that desperate, a prostitute is probably more cost-effective and convenient, and I'd rather not do either. But I don't really see anything about this to make one gender better or worse... ...though I suspect that far more women own vibrators than men own any sex toy. Maybe we make up for it in pornography?

Re:It's about luxury, I guess?

[SScorpio]

There is always the option of Chinese knock offs if you don't mind the risk of your wang falling off for some reason. http://www.dealextreme.com/details.dx/sku.27552

Re:It's about luxury, I guess?

[Anonymous Coward]

Yeah, but you can't keep a prostitute in your closet to utilize whenever the mood strikes.

...well, you could, but that sort of thing is generally frowned upon.

Re:It's about luxury, I guess?

[SanityInAnarchy]

Well, for the right price...

But that does kind of start to get expensive -- even just the per-use cost of a RealDoll is probably lower. Still, why would you spend thousands of dollars for simulated sex (albeit more often) when you can spend those thousands of dollars for real sex?

Re:It's about luxury, I guess?

[Maxo-Texas]

Some of those girls (including Elliot Spitzers) run $3000 for 4 hours.

Re:It's about luxury, I guess?

[Duradin]

If you've got the money for a prostitute in that price range she's probably a lot cheaper than what a divorce would cost you if you made the mistake of getting married.

Re:It's about luxury, I guess?

[larry bagina]

So... generic peanut butter for your sandwich, name brand peanut butter when you slather it on your balls and let the dog lick it off?

Re:It's about luxury, I guess?

[Alsee]

even just the per-use cost of a RealDoll is probably lower

Maybe, but then you have to clean up the RealDoll after each use. Prostitutes are self-cleaning.

I guess I could raise the option of hiring a maid for washing the RealDoll, but then this whole discussion might start to get a little weird.

-

Re:It's about luxury, I guess?

[X0563511]

Generally a sex toy can't give you an STD, or get you arrested.

Unless you share and/or have a very... interesting toy.

Re:It's about luxury, I guess?

[v1]

Just avoid the Ginsu brand
(just look at that tomato!)

Re:It's about luxury, I guess?

[v1]

Unless you share and/or have a very... interesting toy.

chobits!

Re:It's about luxury, I guess?

[ben0207]

So I'd need about 54 bucks worth. That's not a bad deal.

Re:It's about luxury, I guess?

[Anonymous Coward]

dog has to be purebred too

Porn drives tech, eh?

[93 Escort Wagon]

I guess that's why we're all watching HD-DVD now.

Funny how the only people I ever hear say that are into porn.

Re:Porn drives tech, eh?

[SlappyBastard]

In abundant fairness, Blu-Ray was porn for the RIAA types. A non-stop train of new DRM possibilities.

Re:Porn drives tech, eh?

[timmarhy]

I counter that porn is why we have web cams, streaming internet video, broadband and a ton of other internet related tech.

your move.

Re:Another Obligatory

[seven of five]

Beowulf cluster?

Yes, and now linux Sucks

[viking80]

Literally.

Wait for rev 2

[PopeRatzo]

'According to True Companion's Web site, [Roxxxy] "can carry on a discussion and expresses her love to you and be your loving friend. She can talk to you, listen to you and feel your touch."'

Hell, I divorced two wives because they wanted to "carry on a discussion". Believe an old rodeo clown like me, fellas, "discussion" is heavily overrated when it comes to relationships with the opposite sex.

She can talk to you

Great. How long before she starts telling me to take out the garbage? No thanks. If you don't mind, I'll wait until I can get the rev 2.1 non-English speaking version, with the culinary-skills upgrade.

Re:Wait for rev 2

[DiamondGeezer]

And they said romance is dead!

Re:Wait for rev 2

[WarlockD]

It is. They have to build robots to keep it alive

Re:Wait for rev 2

[Gaffod]

I'll wait until I can get the rev 2.1 non-English speaking version, with the culinary-skills upgrade.

You know, call me silly, but something about a combined sexbot and food processor just doesn't sound right. I mean, I know right? What could possibly go wrong? But...

I don't know about you, but I've seen sexier stapl

[Osmosis_Garett]

Call me when the robot sex dolls are standing at the booth, vivaciously encouraging passers-by to come in and give them a try.

They make them for men too

[Sycraft-fu]

It's called the fleshlight. More or less a replica of a vagina in a tube. The functional male equivalent to a vibrator. They are, however, not nearly as accepted by society. Men in general don't feel they should have sex toys.

http://www.fleshlight.com/

Re:They make them for men too

[X0563511]

I'd recommend you all get over your stigma and pick one up. Those things are the shit, and I mean that in a good way.

$6000? For a giant Team America: World Police doll

[SlappyBastard]

I know that the TCO of a couple mixed drinks, a venereal disease and eventual child support payments is more than $6,000, but I think your average buyer is gonna find that price tag pretty steep.

Especially when these things look like the fucking puppets from Team America: World Police!!

I recommend just giving them a miss entirely

[Sycraft-fu]

It is a site that occasionally has moments of brilliance, but it by far outweighed by a mountain of pure stupidity. It really isn't worth your time, even without malware.

Re:I recommend just giving them a miss entirely

[maxume]

I don't disagree, but malware droppers are probably a bigger issue that tiresome inanity.

It's my sex box,

[geekdom04]

and her name is "Sony"!

Requirements analysis?

[ChangeOnInstall]

TRUECOMPANION.COM: World's First Sex Robot * Always Turned On And Ready To Talk Or Play

It seems this is yet another technical project doomed to failure from a lack of proper requirements gathering before implementation.

The primary theoretical advantage of a sex robot is that you can turn it OFF.

Re:Requirements analysis?

[Anonymous Coward]

No, the primary theoretical advantage of a sex robot is that you don't have to spend a week exchanging SMS messages with it and awkwardly hanging out at the bar with its friends before it puts out.

Totally lame "story"

[Snaller]

Since there is nothing (on any of those links) who shows that this robot looks like, how it moves whatever.

Nothing at all except a badly designed website with a few stock shots and a boring report from an expo.

Did you get paid for the advertising?

Friends don't turn friends into latex sexbots

[SlappyBastard]

What the fuck kinda way to preserve your friend is making a piss poor latex sexbot resembling the puppets from Team America?

Re:Friends don't turn friends into latex sexbots

[couchslug]

My friend IS a piss poor latex sexbot, you insensitive clod!

856 504 567 982 344 98-8

[negRo_slim]

So I take it you did finish the job?

Re:856 504 567 982 344 98-8

[w0mprat]

So I take it you did finish the job?

When a problem arises I get a grip on the situation and shortly a solution is found.

Teleoperation

[MichaelSmith]

So you build male/female pairs of robots with wifi and an ssh tunnel connecting them. Throw out the AI and substitute it with a teleoperation setup. You would need some sort of body motion capture suit at each end as well. Aim for low latency but I don't see it as too much of a big deal. Pay Woody Allen to promote it.

Now you don't have to worry about being away from your loved one when working and studying overseas.

Re:Teleoperation

[Alsee]

So you build male/female pairs of robots with wifi and an ssh tunnel connecting them.

Gives new meaning to the MITM attack.

-

Re:Teleoperation

[MartinSchou]

Well, start with a less expansive idea.

Make a pressure, temperature and moisture sensitive skin for a dildo, so you it can record exactly how it is being handled.

Make an artificial vagina that can simulate these.

Hook it up to the internet and have at it.

Re:Teleoperation

[MichaelSmith]

So you build male/female pairs of robots with wifi and an ssh tunnel connecting them.

Gives new meaning to the MITM attack.

Its my wife in the middle I am worried about. Fortunately I didn't marry her for her crypto skills.

Yes, but can you imagine...

[Frosty Piss]

Yes, but can you imagine one of things encrusted with a week or two of dried bodily fluids and pubic hairs?

Ending human trafficking for the forced sex trade

[spasm]

Funny thing, I was just at an academic presentation on human trafficking connected with the sex trade a couple of weeks ago. I made the observation that the thing that had tended to lead to the complete end of other forms of extreme exploitation (slavery, debt bondage, and similar forms of unfree labour) was the mechanization of whatever it was that people were being forced to do, and that so far mechanizing human sexuality had proved difficult.

So I think it's fantastic that these companies are continuing to push the limits of exactly what range of basic human needs can be met through mechanization, because if there's ever eventually a product that genuinely meets this need for a large enough number of people, it'll basically end the economic viability of forced sex labour. Note that it doesn't have to meet these needs for everyone, just for enough people that setting up the infrastructure for forced sex work is no longer economically viable.

I also wonder if there'll ever be a crossover point where having a 'real doll' will be something that people are comfortable disclosing - kind of like the crossover that occurred sometime in the late 1990s - early 2000s with online dating in North America. In the 80s and earlier (for those of you who are too young to remember), meeting people online or through newspaper ads was something that was kind of desperate-seeming and embarrassing and something that people who'd met that way tended to 'hide' by making up some other story about how they'd met. Now it's basically normative, and it's rare to find people unwilling to say they met through an online dating service. Likewise, women owning vibrators went from being something no-one admitted to, to something that second-wave feminism made normative and no big deal (witness many of the comments about vibrators already in this thread, most of which aren't from 'anonymous cowards').

Anyway, I think it's going to be an interesting decade or so for people interested in the interactions between human sexuality and the labour market.

Re:Ending human trafficking for the forced sex tra

[MichaelSmith]

I think any such crossover point is way in the future. Babies can be made in the third world for a few bucks. I can't see your typical paedophile being impressed with a robot. They want the real deal and will continue to pay the small amount required to get what they want.

24x7 Support

[AngryElmo]

Hello. Help desk? My Roxxxy is fucked.

very real-life these thing

[stimpleton]

Roxxxy, though, was rather unsexily posed on a couch, not moving a bit

*casts eye to wife in next room, then back to computer screen.

Wow, they *are* life like!

Re:Ending human trafficking for the forced sex tra

[mjwx]

Babies can be made in the third world for a few bucks. I can't see your typical paedophile being impressed with a robot.

But just like paedophilia the numbers on sex trafficking are blown out of proportion by the alarmists. In actual fact, the number of women trafficked to the west against their will for the purposes of sex is insignificant. People smuggling is a far more serious problem.

The majority of sex workers travel of their own accord, this is particularly prevalent with SE Asian women where there is little stigmata against prostitution. This is why you can find Thai and Philipina girls working in many cities such as Amsterdam, Dubai, Singapore and Kuala Lumpur. Most of these women make a hundred times what they do with a "real" job in their own countries and often go home rich. Even in Thailand, in Phuket the minimum daily wage is 209 Baht per day (A$8) and these jobs will go to locals before a farm girl from Issan, Phuket is one of Thailand's richest provinces whilst Issan comprises the poorest provinces so the average daily wage is lower in the Issan provinces. Now these women could work 10-12 hour days in a factory or farm for less then 200 Baht a day or they could work in a bar in Phuket and potentially pull between 1000 and 4000 Baht a night (A$30 to A$130) via prostitution, obviously not every night but the prospect of this kind of money is very appealing to a girl who has little education and few employment opportunities.

Skull fucking the terminator seems like a bad idea

[Jackie_Chan_Fan]

I'm just saying.

Re:Another Obligatory

[Opportunist]

Natalie Portman?

Ok the ONLY time I will ever post this...

[quakemeister]

I, for one, wholeheartedly welcome our sex robot overlords...

(I gotta believe someone else posted this already but didn't see it)

she looks like...

[pydev]

She looks like she's permanently screaming: NOOOOOOOOOOOOO GET ME OUT OF HERE.

just a website with dummy forms

[purpleraison]

not much more to say really. I could have uploaded this exact site in 2 minutes with identical functionality.

Just a scam, nothing more.

With that said... when sex robots DO become available, I am soooooooooo getting one to replace my stupid wife.

Re:Ending human trafficking for the forced sex tra

[Anonymous Coward]

Likewise, women owning vibrators went from being something no-one admitted to, to something that second-wave feminism made normative and no big deal (witness many of the comments about vibrators already in this thread, most of which aren't from 'anonymous cowards').

As a non-woman, I wish they'd go back to not talking about it. Look, I get it: you don't want to have sex with me. You don't have to revel in it so much when I'm around.

Re:Evidence & kudos to my NOW collegiate colle

[bistromath007]

OH GOD

Stop it! Stop it, please! Why are you doing this to my beautiful language? Please, make the bad man stop!

Texas is pretty much out of oil

[Rix]

So they don't need liberating.

Re:Ending human trafficking for the forced sex tra

[xilmaril]

if there's ever eventually a product that genuinely meets this need for a large enough number of people, it'll basically end the economic viability of forced sex labour.

Wow... you just made me a (hopefully vocal) supporter of sexbot companies. I mean, I had nothing against them before, but it never occured to me that they could provide a massive social benefit.

This is gonna lead to some weird conversations.

Spirit of the Age...

[advocate_one]

I would've liked you to have been deep frozen too
And waiting still as fresh in your flesh for my
return to earth
But your father refused to sign the forms to freeze you
Let's see you'd be about 60 now, and long dead
by the time I return to earth
My time held dreams were full of you as you were
when I left, still underage
Your android replica is playing up again
it's no joke
When she comes she moans another's name
But that's the spirit of the age, that's the
spirit of the age

Hawkwind... Spirit of the Age...

Here's an interesting comparison

[Arthur Grumbine]

Mr. Garrison from South Park (from Season 9 to 12):
1) Refers to self as "dyke".
2) Likes to constantly remind people he's a woman
3) Gets up in everyone's face at the slightest provocation regarding issues of sex/sexual orientation
4) Something in the name implies a sex-change operation

girlintraining (in terms of above four characteristics):
1) Check
2) Check
3) Check
4) Checkmate.

Re:Here's an interesting comparison

[todd10k]

Someone Mod this insightful, please.

These

[DaJoky]

are not the droids your looking for!

Now the big question is...

[Hymer]

...are you unfaithful when you are fucking with a robot ?

Re:He avoids questions & runs like most troll

[Cassius Corodes]

WTF I don't even... cut down on the drugs...

3 LAWS

[Anonymous Coward]

The three sex robot laws:

1. A sex robot must allow a human to cum.
2. A sex robot may deny any orders given to it by human beings, except where such orders would conflict with the First Law.
3. A sex robot must protect its own ass as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law.

I think there might be a reason for it

[SmallFurryCreature]

All joking aside, I think the strong reaction by women against love robots for men stems from a perceived difference in what sex means for men and women.

Most women want something more then pure sex. And this is proving very hard to get, as most men just want them for sex. So the vibrator is NOT a replacement for what women want.

But a sex robot WOULD be a replacement for what men want.

Men are already obsolete. They can use a vibrator for penetration, spermbank for babies, and a dog for sleeping on the couch. And yet, women still want men. Desperate enough that many put up with abuse just to have one.

Women are not yet obsolete. There is nothing as soft as a woman, we can't have babies, and a cat is to affectionate and emotionally reliable.

But a robot that is close enough for sex... that could mess relationships up. How many of us guys (especially when we were young) put up with women just for the sex? Say you can get exactly the same without the real human being... would you still date (or for us /.ers attempt to date)?

Don't say that you need the human companionship. Especially us techies have consistently tried to remove the human factor from daily interactions. Ticket machines instead of a manned counter. Text-messaging instead of talking to someone. Discussing the days events on a website rather then with friends. Playing against bits rather then against human people in the same room.

So I get it that vibrators are more accepted. For most women, they are NOT a replacement for a male partner.

Re:I think there might be a reason for it

[Courageous]

You're confused about a great deal here. This is normal. Many men are confused about sex, and what they want from a partner. To put it bluntly, while a sex robot might or might not be okay as a substitution for masturbation, it is a long stretch from being a substitute for sex. While it's true that men and women have different flavors of interest in sexual relations, the differences aren't so great as all that, and a belief that a robot is a potential substitute for the man's half in all this illustrates a profound lack of understanding of both what it is men want and need, as well as a profound lack of self-understanding. I.e., to wit: whatever you think you know about men, and even yourself, is illusory. Look deeper, young padiwan.

Joe.

Re:I think there might be a reason for it

[DakotaSmith]

All joking aside, I think the strong reaction by women against love robots for men stems from a perceived difference in what sex means for men and women.

I think it's actually a lot simpler than that:

If a real gyndroid (which this isn't -- the folks at AndyDroid are making a far more sophisticated device) ever became popular with men, the free ride is over for women.

There appears to be little that terrifies a woman more than the thought of living alone her whole life. I don't understand it, but I've certainly observed the behavior often enough.

If a real gyndroid hits the market, men will discover that they can, in fact, have a significantly less expensive artificial female around that provides the same or better emotional support than a human woman.

This means that a lot of women are going to be alone. Forever.

This frankly scares the shit out of them. They react with hostility toward anything that might upset the current status quo (i.e. being abusive toward a man while simultaneously getting him to buy expensive trinkets for her).

I hope the real gyndroid comes soon. Its widespread adoption is the only thing that will convince Western women to change their behavior.

Re:I think there might be a reason for it

[HungryHobo]

Get back to me when they have a robot which can induce the warm happy feeling of cuddling up to my girlfriend in front of the fire.

Re:I think there might be a reason for it

[psithurism]

Alright, he may be confused, however, his insight is into why the general populace may fear such things. Whether or not the populace is wrong is beside the point, the populace has always been obsessed with the male sex drive and how to thwart it / use it and ignored the female's and I would say they probably follow reasoning similar to his.

Re:I think there might be a reason for it

[Courageous]

You can't be wrong about this, because a great many people, men and women alike, are confused about what men want from their relationships. The answer to the basic question lurks in asking a guy why he shouldn't just use a prostitute regularly over having a girlfriend or a wife. It's because deep down we really do want to be loved, cared about, and cherished.

Joe.

Re:I think there might be a reason for it

[psithurism]

The answer to the basic question lurks in asking a guy why he shouldn't just use a prostitute regularly over having a girlfriend or a wife.

My answer would be: because prostitution is illegal here. I'd have to risk being put on a sex offender registry and all the crap that that entails. My goverment and the majority that keeps them in power is too afraid to even let me try the prostitution route. Plus my family who thinks it is my duty to have a woman nag me into continuing the family line instead of expressing my sexuality in such perverse ways.

Even porn, if it wasn't a threat to what really matters in relationships, why is my girlfriend always sniffing about for it? And my government regulating it so hard?

Maybe you won't, but I'll take a sex-bot. I'm sure the government and my family will do everything possible to take it away from me.

Re:I think there might be a reason for it

[Courageous]

There are areas inside of the US in which prostitution is perfectly legal, friend. Go to town.

Joe.

Re:I think there might be a reason for it

[Fumus]

Men are already obsolete. They can use a vibrator for penetration, spermbank for babies, and a dog for sleeping on the couch. And yet, women still want men. Desperate enough that many put up with abuse just to have one.

Some skip the vibrator and prefer to use the dog instead :p

Women are not yet obsolete. There is nothing as soft as a woman, we can't have babies, and a cat is to affectionate and emotionally reliable.

A cat is fine too..

Re:I think there might be a reason for it

[thickdiick]

You are absolutely and 100% wrong.
1. Empirical evidence shows that women want sex just as much as men want sex.
2. A sex robot would not be a replacement for what men want. Men want food to be cooked and ready when they get home.
3. No real man "puts up" with women just for sex. Real men are chased — and sought after — by women.

Re:Another "classic troll maneuver" the mod down

[Kneo24]

But you're trolling a troll. Trolling is trolling, no matter whose doing it. You could have given up at any moment. Instead you kept going, then went on to regurgitate some of the same information through different posts. It's the internet, who cares? There's no need to get so defensive, especially if you're going AC all the time.

The world is sexist

[SmallFurryCreature]

Lets face it, most techies are guys. When I went to school (granted that was ages ago when women where not allowed to vote, good days) there were 2 girls in my class, and we were the only class to have them.

So it becomes easier to say "he" rather then "he/she" but that also reinforces the idea that only males read your posts. It is a real chicken/egg problem. Since we presume only guys are in tech, we treat everyone as a guy and become very unfriendly to women who then either don't join tech/leave as soon as possible/or hide their sex.

I know from MMO experience that some women are reluctant to reveal who they are, even asking men they do talk to on voice to not reveal to others they don't voice-chat to what gender they are.

BUT in turn, that also makes women who DO talk/act like women come out far stronger.

Someone else comments below that you are very in the face about being a girl. You certainly give that impression, by contrast. Since everyone here is either obviously male or gender neutral, a single woman speaking up is like a curse in a cathedral. A pin dropped in a silent room.

And last but not least, this site is getting overrun by wanna-be nerds. 13yr olds who think that MS invented computing who are defending their turf. You are a girl in their clubhouse and that is scary.

So, good for you that you don't hide who you are, but make sure you put on your asbestos panties. The moderation system invites abuse of the negative mods, since it is the only way for people to censor what they don't want to hear. But please remember, not everyone here is the same. "You people" in your last sentence is offending to all those who do not panic because there is a girl on slashdot. Don't become what you hate, a sexist person who generalizes based on gender.

Baby, I been havin a tough night so treat me nice

[laejoh]

Oh yeah, aight. Aight, I put on my robe and wizard hat.

Secondlife + 1

[MrKaos]

So next the Secondlife interfaces to robot sex doll interfaces. I wonder how long that will take.

Anyone got a stopwatch?

Re:Because unlike a LOT of folks? I don't "back do

[Kneo24]

What does this gain you in the end? It's the Internet, the majority of these people you will probably never encounter professionally or personally. The only thing your doing is I guess trying to make yourself feel better about being "attacked"?

Like I said, it's the Internet, who cares? Using your environment as an excuse is often a poor one. Grow beyond it. Get past it. It certainly hasn't made you a better person. People rise and fall, out of and into, situations that are often out of their control. Allowing it to define you shows a weak character. Moving beyond it shows a strong character.

You may feel as though you're empowering yourself by trying to belittle random people who get their kicks from taking pot-shots at you, but guess what? They often don't care. That's what trolling is about.

I'm in my mid 20's and I've mostly grown out of the whole, "but I must defend myself!" routine. It's just tiresome and not worth the effort 99% of the time. Everyone gets sucked in now and then, but it's almost as if you seek it. I say things people don't like all the time. If they disagree, let them. It's no skin off my back.

(By the way, my environment that I grew up in may not have been too violent, but it was pretty fucked up none the less. I grew beyond it. I don't let it define who I am.)

Re:Another Obligatory

[Hymer]

A Beowulf cluster of sex dolls should be called a Beowulf harem.

Re:$6000? For a giant Team America: World Police d

[Stele]

Yes, but - finally, "someone" I can literally shit on without her complaining! That's worth a lot more than $6K.

Re:holy shit LOL, NO $HEET (personal note here)

[cheftw]

I know you spent lots of time writing that, but it doesn't make any sense.

I'm sorry.

YouTube

[highspl]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i7NhBEx6Ank

Careful with words

[DrYak]

Um...does this post make me a sex toy nazi?

Carefull with those words. Or half of the /. readership (the kinkiest half) will explode in a fountain of nosebleed.

Carreer change ..

[sorin25]

Does anyone know a good course for QA engineers ? It seems that TrueCompanion is searching for motivated individuals to join their team, and I'm thinking to apply for a position in their QA department ..

Beware the Electro Gonorrhea

[dissolved]

aka the noisy killer...

Re:Ending human trafficking for the forced sex tra

[5pp000]

Interesting point.

Here's another thought: China is about to find itself with a severe shortage of young women, now that it has become possible to choose the sex of a baby, and many are choosing boys. I bet sex robots will be a massive business there.

Wait until you're 60

[ChrisMaple]

I think that most of us guys have become accustomed to the level of control we achieve with our hand(s). It's a lot easier for a guy to get off without toys. You can make your grip tighter, but women can't make thieir fingers longer and thicker.

Men become much less sensitive as they get older. In many cases, so much so that the muscles controlling the hand will cramp long before orgasm.

Women have most of their sensitivity in the clitoris, which is near the surface. Longer/thicker doesn't really have much effect on the important nerve endings.

A Picture Of Roxxy

[Dean Edmonds]

You can see a picture of roxy here.

That is not the girl of my dreams. Nightmares, perhaps.

The price tag is $7,000. I'd rather have a Segway.

Sounds nothing like a Cherry 2000!

[twosat]

Back in the 80's they had already predicted a much-more realistic robot in the movie Cherry 2000. www.youtube.com/watch?v=kckEEQKXaCU

Some of the want to use you

[SlappyBastard]

Some of them want to be used by you.

Geek Conventions + Porn Fairs

[Vastad]

I am surprised High-C wrote that the AVN Expo nextdoor to the CES was a "curious coincidence". Maybe my sarcasm detector is on the fritz but I had the impression that every major geek convention in the US had an accompanying porn expo as it's neighbour. Practically a tradition. You go where the business is right?

Re:Baby, I been havin a tough night so treat me ni

[twosat]

Is that you Mike Jittlov? www.youtube.com/watch?v=GoLhLn9hVkE

Last Comment

[mosb1000]

Ok, this is my last comment.

Your poor writing is everybody's problem, but you are the only one who can do anything about it. I have posted here because I wished to politely inform you that it needs some work, and offer some advice.

It sounds like you only want to take advice from a professional with a PHD in english on this. That's reasonable, but please go and find one. Show him or her your posts and ask for an opinion. They will tell you the same thing I am telling you.

Your writing needs to be easy to understand or else people will not want to read it. And yes, some people will also be unable to understand it. You seem to be saying that people who find your posts difficult to read have poor reading comprehension. A lot of people have poor reading comprehension, so making your posts needlessly difficult to understand reduces the number of people that will hear what you have to say.

So in closing, I am sorry if I have offended you. That was not my intention. I can assure you that you really do have a problem, and I sincerely hope you will get help with it, even if you won't listen to me.

Best regards,

Bob Mosby

Achievement

[vtstarin]

True human achievement.

Re:Evidence & kudos to my NOW collegiate colle

[mcgrew]

Stop it! Stop it, please! Why are you doing this to my beautiful language? Please, make the bad man stop!

You'd call someone in the 7th grade a "man"? It looks to me like it's either a preadolescent, or a trollbot. Either way [s]he' been modded to oblivion, so you got your request.

Always on the scene

[AP31R0N]

i hear these sex robots will heat up your case like an athlon XP.

vibrators soon after electric motors invnted

[peter303]

Both are from the mid-19th century according to the New York Museum of Sex
. Sex applications incorporates new technology quicky. They were among the first developers of internet credit card transactions and internet video.

quazi-oblig

[LanMan04]

www.videosift.com/video/Futurama-Dont-Date-Robots

Talk for yourself buddy.

[jotaeleemeese]

"Most women want something more then pure sex. And this is proving very hard to get, as most men just want them for sex"

No wonder we still have women that still feel aggravated about male attitudes towards gender issues.

No further explanation is required.