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[-] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 308 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I guess a vibrator isn't a type of sex robot?

Just saying that these sort of toys were way more normalized for women long before they were for men.

A man with a fleshlight was a gross weirdo, a woman with a vibrator is a strong independent woman taking control of her sexuality and not settling for the weakness of flesh in men.

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[-] hemko@lemmy.dbzer0.com 98 points 2 years ago
[-] remotelove@lemmy.ca 50 points 2 years ago

But FREE browsing! How revolutionary.

[-] KSPAtlas@sopuli.xyz 37 points 2 years ago

I've seen this more and more, it's fucked up and probably illegal

[-] hemko@lemmy.dbzer0.com 27 points 2 years ago

Think I've seen this twice now in the past couple years, but yeah it's likely not compliant with the cookie law in EU

[-] hubobes@sh.itjust.works 14 points 2 years ago

This is perfectly legal, the law only says that the user must freely choose to allow the website to save said data. You can opt out here and not use that website.

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[-] powermaker450@discuss.tchncs.de 9 points 2 years ago

and this is why uBlock origin is the be all end all of extensions.

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[-] towelie@lemm.ee 77 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Sex with a hella sexy robot? Nice.

Using a hella sexy robot to fill the emptiness of no intimacy or authentic mutual connection? Not nice.

For some reason sex with a robot doesn't feel gross to me — until they start using it to fill a hole (hehe)

[-] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 15 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

What about for people who struggle to have emotional intimacy and sexual intimacy throughout their lives because of medical issues or mental health issues?

My ex has a brother who is now pushing 40 and has never even held a woman's hand. He has severe mental disabilities and will never live life on his own without some kind of caretaker. We know he looked at porn, partially because he refused to ever let people fix up his computer, usually out of fear of people seeing his porn.

Does he not deserve emotional and sexual intimacy? There is a high likelihood he will never have it otherwise.

until they start using it to fill a hole

What about, like in the situation I just described, when that hole will otherwise go a lifetime of being unfulfilled? Is that fair to them for being born a way they didn't choose?

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[-] essteeyou@lemmy.world 59 points 2 years ago

Realistically how is a man going to design a good sex robot for a woman? Let a woman do that, they'll get what they want.

[-] shalafi@lemmy.world 35 points 2 years ago

Women already have the perfect sex bot. It's called a Sybian.

[-] Jarix@lemmy.world 22 points 2 years ago

And if that Sybian could pick you up, and stroke your thighs, massage your breasts, have hips and legs to simulate the sexual positions that it can't provide you, while still being what it is, there is a huge room for improvement on the design of the sybian and what great things it does

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[-] bhamlin@lemmy.world 11 points 2 years ago

✅: Does what it's asked to do

✅: Doesn't talk back

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[-] WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world 58 points 2 years ago
[-] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 20 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Electro-gonorrhea, the noisy killer

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[-] Ceedoestrees@lemmy.world 46 points 2 years ago

Speak for yourself. Gimme that drama free dick.

[-] figjam@midwest.social 36 points 2 years ago

I will get a sex robot when it can scoop catboxes and fold laundry.

[-] ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml 19 points 2 years ago

You're into some weird shit but I respect it

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[-] embed_me@programming.dev 14 points 2 years ago

Genius! It will sell even without the sex

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[-] lightnsfw@reddthat.com 36 points 2 years ago
[-] Allero@lemmy.today 35 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Most men are not much into the idea, either.

Intimacy is something very human, something most people are not ready to trust a machine to do, even if it's capable of visibly empathetic reactions.

There is a desire to connect with another human being, not programmed to like you, but actually choosing you freely. It's what people call "feeling it real".

Most folks I have seen pushing for robotic partners are incels craving at least some form of closeness - having something like this might be better than nothing.

Also, dudes, let's be real: would you put your dick into a machine much stronger than you? Something goes wrong and you don't have your precious parts anymore.

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[-] remotelove@lemmy.ca 34 points 2 years ago

All it took was one search to find plenty of contradictions to that post title.

[-] kemsat@lemmy.world 30 points 2 years ago

I dunno, everyone was cool with the love story of Wanda & The Vision from the MCU. I guess fucking robots is not ok, but becoming emotionally attached to one is?

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[-] RamblingPanda@lemmynsfw.com 30 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

They don't ~~that~~ have that much appeal to me as well, and I'm a dude.

[-] shaggyb@lemmy.world 29 points 2 years ago

You're telling me women don't like vibrators.

[-] Honytawk@lemmy.zip 28 points 2 years ago

Isn't that because women have had vibrators for decades?

[-] Simulation6@sopuli.xyz 19 points 2 years ago

Make robots look like bears or dolphins?

[-] sundrei@lemmy.sdf.org 16 points 2 years ago

I'm no expert on attraction, but what if the sex robot looked like a skeleton?

[-] Lawnman23@lemmy.world 13 points 2 years ago

I want to get off Mr. Bones Wild Ride.

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[-] OldWoodFrame@lemm.ee 15 points 2 years ago

I want to know what the state of the art AI sex robot is right now. Because they have those realistic-ish sex dolls, and some pretty advanced LLMs that can chat conversationally, and longer term memory is starting to get into the LLM repertoire so your bot can remember things about you and reference them later.

I feel like we're 3-5 years away from a high end AI prostitute startup becoming huge.

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[-] flemtone@lemmy.world 12 points 2 years ago

In this current age of western dating Sex Bots at least cut out all of the bullshit for many men and give you basic companionship with the perks of sex, which is a lot easier for some than dating.

[-] Dagwood222@lemm.ee 12 points 2 years ago

https://youtu.be/urS8GmwmeWQ

[off topic]

From the movie Cherry 2000. In the movie the hero has just lost his sex robot and is trying to date human women for the first time in a while.

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[-] match@pawb.social 10 points 2 years ago
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[-] kibiz0r@midwest.social 9 points 2 years ago

In these sexual relationships, availability and consent will always be taken for granted, something that’s never taken for granted in a sexual relationship with another human being.

People could get used to interacting in a way in which the other person isn’t taken into account as much, meaning that sexual partners could be instrumentalized for the purpose of having sex. That is to say the ‘human-humanoid’ interaction could be transferred to the relationship between two human beings.

Unfortunately, however, these advances aren’t being accompanied by deep reflections about the consequences that sex with robots can have.

[-] bane_killgrind@slrpnk.net 12 points 2 years ago

never taken for granted

In healthy relationships anyway

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