'As things stand most of them will balk on taking the robotic dive. If they wanted to hump a cold, unresponsive and inanimate lump of artificiality, they’d just get married.'
By Paul ElamLast month I did a talk on sex robots, a topic heating up in the media of late. It was a cursory glance at the subject, looking more at the motives of women who object to the technology than the technology itself. From the response to the video, which got more than three times my average views, with a great deal of activity in the comments, I decided to take a closer look.
And once again I won’t be delving into all the minutia of the technology. After spending the last few weeks reading up on the subject and considering the information, I have come to two conclusions that sum up everything relevant to the subject at this point.
One, as it stands today the technology is not nearly at a place where the presence of sex robots will have any grand implications for relations between men and women. Sex robots are in their technological infancy. On perhaps the most important level, that of physicality, we are still talking about an innovation not that much more advanced than a fleshlight with a wig.