Do androids have electric orgasms?
Would you have sex with an android?
Would you pay to have sex with an android?
Can you have sex with an android?
Such questions. well not the later that is assumed to be true, are exercising the minds of Victoria University Academics - Ian Yeoman and Michelle Mars.
They have published a paper: Robots, men and sex tourism in the Journal Futures.
I have no doubt that sex robots are on the horizon and equally I have no doubt that sex with a robot would be a hollow experience - empty.
We worship sexuality, or are told we it is something we should worship,
But the most important thing to our well being are our human relationships - the most important one being that with our spouse, the sexual aspect of which is only a minor thing.
The way our culture emphasises sexual pleasure and almost totally ignores the other aspects of that special relationship is the cause of much unhappiness and the fracturing of the bonds between many human couples.
Can you have sex with a robot?
No - you can only simulate it, that's all. But without the spiritual dimension and humanity it would be a big nothing.
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