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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 06 2017, @01:06PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 06 2017, @01:06PM (#535696)

    Many reasons why this can be the case. The catalyst may not necessarily be genetic, it can be environmental. For example, the exposure to hormones at various levels in utero. There are reasons why this might be beneficial evolutionary, thus the pattern persisted.

    Say it may be beneficial that in a line of male off-springs, each successive one has greater chance of being homosexual, thus providing the oldest with more potential mates due to reduced competition. An older male might be preferable to younger male as he has proven his genes are more fit for longer survival, even though in theoretical sense survival only matters to the point of procreation (and a bit after for purposes of providing for newborns). So an older brother may always be a better mate than the younger one, if he is available. But these are just hypotheses as I do not actual study this stuff.