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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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BEWARE! People acting under the influence of human nature.
(Score: 2) by takyon on Thursday July 06 2017, @12:18PM
https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn13674-evolution-myths-natural-selection-cannot-explain-homosexuality/ [newscientist.com]
The kin selection hypothesis mentioned in that article can also be called the "gay uncle effect" [wikipedia.org] (.
http://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/scientists-discover-evolutionary-advantage-homosexual-sex/ [iflscience.com]
http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-26089486 [bbc.com]
Anything natural about the selection could have been rendered moot by civilization or even recent and soon-to-come developments. For example, it's now socially acceptable in most Western countries to no longer pretend to be straight (think the gay/lesbian taking a heterosexual partner in the 50s, having kids, etc.). Now a gay/lesbian couple can have kids using surrogacy schemes or donor fluids without much fuss. And in the coming decades (maybe sooner) we'll see the ability to create artificial fertilized eggs from the DNA of two men or two women which will definitely change the equation since the gay or lesbian couple will (likely) be selecting genes from the two of them with no involvement with the DNA of heterosexual people.
If the resulting kids are "weak" for some reason, that will hardly matter since there is very little selection pressure anymore (barring a nuclear apocalypse or global pandemic bringing us back to the Dark Ages). There's also the possibility of creating designer babies with genes that confer an unusual amount of latent athletic ability and intelligence.
Here's an idea: a 5-parent baby with a mix of genes artificially chosen from 5 polyamorous men and women. Everything under the sun is possible with a little genome sequencing and synthesis.
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