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posted by n1 on Thursday July 06 2017, @05:48AM   Printer-friendly
from the f**k-machine dept.

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Elderly people living in care homes could soon be enjoying the company of specifically designed sex robots, according to a leading organization in the field.

The freakishly realistic robots could be widely available within the next decade, used not just by fetishists but as a tool for sexual therapy and communication.

[...] Professor Sharkey, who was speaking on Wednesday at the launch of a new consultation report, said it is time for the government to step in and start regulating sex bots.

“They are being proposed for the elderly in care homes, which I think is controversial. If you have severe Alzheimer’s you can’t really tell the difference,” said the researcher.

Source: RT


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  • (Score: 3, Interesting) by VLM on Thursday July 06 2017, @12:04PM (2 children)

    by VLM (445) Subscriber Badge on Thursday July 06 2017, @12:04PM (#535679)

    If you have severe Alzheimer’s you can’t really tell the difference,” said the researcher.

    I have an uncle-in-law at an assisted living facility (I've discovered there's a whole hierarchy and he's at the spot where he needs more than occasionally a nurse visits a regular apartment but far less than a hospital room; its kind of like a college dorm where the RA is a RN) Anyway apparently there's a bit of a hookup culture there and the nurses make sure no one is spreading any diseases and its not like a 75 year old woman is going to give birth so its pretty wild. And yes there's more than a little "other person" acts like nothing happened because they forgot. The nurses have a peculiar idea of medical privacy in that they don't talk about what the residents are doing like a pr0n story, but they do talk about residents "special friends" and there's plenty of isolated stories about thinking someone snuck out but they're found in someone elses bedroom or we couldn't give him his afternoon medication turns out he was in her room etc etc.

    Anyway my point was if even a minimal set of body parts work, people will use them, and quite a bit from what I've heard. So whats the robot good for?

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 06 2017, @01:10PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 06 2017, @01:10PM (#535698)

    So whats the robot good for?

    Less wrinkles, and boobs are where they are supposed to be. Both may act like a certain blue-pill (I cannot name it due to some BS filter that wont let me post it), no need for the pills.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 06 2017, @03:34PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 06 2017, @03:34PM (#535754)

      Do they have a "Suicide Option"?