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A sex doll was so heavily molested by eager men it broke before anyone could actually use it. Or use it privately, anyway.
We're not entirely sure what happened to 'Samantha'. But its owner complained that the £3,000 robot was left "heavily soiled" after being exhibited at a tech fair.
Developer Sergi Santos, from Barcelona, Spain, says visitors to the Arts Electronica Festival in Linz treated the 'intelligent' sex doll "like barbarians", and added that two fingers were broken in the melee.
"The people mounted Samantha's breasts, her legs and arms," Sergi said. "Two fingers were broken. She was heavily soiled."
Sergi added that the robot had to be sent back in a parcel to Barcelona for repairs and cleaning after being left so filthy and broken by the never-ending male attention.
But said: "Samantha can endure a lot, she will pull through."
Not sure I could get a 3,000 pound robot up to my 3rd floor walk-up...
(Score: 5, Insightful) by jmorris on Friday September 29 2017, @01:14AM (35 children)
It is a doll people, not a robot. Who cares if it can parrot a few phrases, Tickle Me Elmo can do that and it is still a toy and having sex with it would be exactly as weird and wrong.
Our civilization is diseased.
(Score: 5, Touché) by unauthorized on Friday September 29 2017, @01:26AM (16 children)
Damn kids and their sex dolls. Why in my days we used to go out and molest real women.
(Score: 5, Funny) by Phoenix666 on Friday September 29 2017, @01:37AM (10 children)
We would go out and molest sheep...er, well, I read that was a thing.
Washington DC delenda est.
(Score: 5, Funny) by Thexalon on Friday September 29 2017, @02:10AM
You must have been the source of the joke about the difference between Mick Jagger and a Scottish shepherd: One says "Hey, you, get offa my cloud." The other says "Hey, MacCleod, ..."
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(Score: 2) by driverless on Friday September 29 2017, @08:13AM (8 children)
Given your mention of sheep, shouldnt you be saying "Canberra delenda est"?
(Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Friday September 29 2017, @01:17PM (7 children)
Not all sheep are Australian.
Washington DC delenda est.
(Score: 2) by driverless on Friday September 29 2017, @02:01PM (1 child)
But a disproportionate number of people who are intimate with them are.
Either that or Welsh.
(Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Friday September 29 2017, @03:20PM
or from Idaho. Their state's welcome kit for new residents includes velcro gloves and a condom.
Washington DC delenda est.
(Score: 1) by Jtmach on Friday September 29 2017, @02:42PM (4 children)
The Kiwi's say the Aussie's are shaggin the sheep.
Frankly, I think the sheep are the whores.
(Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Friday September 29 2017, @03:18PM (3 children)
Just don't pick the ugly one. And for god's sake, use protection. Humans can impregnate sheep.
Washington DC delenda est.
(Score: 2) by driverless on Friday September 29 2017, @03:31PM (2 children)
That's what's always puzzled me, I mean have you looked at Australian sheep? They're all bony and ragged and dirty, while NZ sheep are much better looking.
(Score: 3, Funny) by Phoenix666 on Friday September 29 2017, @03:46PM (1 child)
"NZ sheep are much better looking"
They're called 'women,' not 'sheep,' you insensitive clod.
Washington DC delenda est.
(Score: 2) by driverless on Friday September 29 2017, @03:57PM
Well, I guess if you swing that way you can always throw a fleece over her and have her make baa-ing noises. Just don't let anyone see you.
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Ethanol-fueled on Friday September 29 2017, @02:31AM (4 children)
A sex doll is much better exercise and preparation for real sex than ol' Manuela is. Why not have both a realdoll and a real woman?
But unless you have that much money to throw away, is it worth it?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 29 2017, @03:47AM (3 children)
Why not rent a sex doll? [soylentnews.org]
(Score: 1) by Ethanol-fueled on Friday September 29 2017, @04:29AM (2 children)
You first, buddy. I'll wait and see whether or not your dick falls off.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Immerman on Friday September 29 2017, @06:04AM
One of the benefits of a sex doll over a human prostitute, you can personally send its genitals through autoclave so that you know it's "clean".
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Friday September 29 2017, @02:21PM
What if the, um . . . how to put this nicely . . ., um, "critical parts" were easily and inexpensively 3D printed? Custom fit. The Burger King wouldn't have to wrap his whopper. Along with custom 3D printed boner drugs (see previous story [soylentnews.org]).
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(Score: 5, Interesting) by Yog-Yogguth on Friday September 29 2017, @02:21AM (8 children)
I don't disagree, however people are weird, they have always been weird and will always continue to be weird.
Everyone (but hopefully not in this exact manner although it can for sure be much worse).
The only difference is about what. Perhaps? And maybe (hopefully) some choices are better than others but it might all be purely random rather than a choice and the outcomes for nearly identical input seem wildly divergent as well.
At least that's my current conclusion. Just 1 among about 8 billion thoughts or whatnot currently flowing through everyone alive right now.
And deciding how someone is weird is of course subjective as well. Sometimes one has to know someone for a long time to realize in what way they're weird, like perhaps how their judgment or world-view seems impaired or erroneous or whether (or how) they're sexual freaks and whatnot.
The older I get the more I'm amazed that there's anyone at all that stick together, procreate, and still stick together, or how there's any kind of rudimentary society to speak of at all, or how we ever got to the point of having technology and science, or how some decisions in history actually seem to have at least a tinge of rationality to them. Hmm on second thought forget that last one :D
It's a mad world (of lies if you ask me) and every time someone tries to fix it it gets a little worse, or so it appears.
I'm pretty sure this is why so many older people tune out, it takes a lot of stubbornness not to, maybe far too much effort and stamina and energy to be of any worth even for those who try.
And all that makes it incredibly impressive that most people still try to get along and do what they think is right (despite everyone pretty much disagreeing on what that would be precisely, at least if they think a lot about it) and don't give up.
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(Score: 3, Interesting) by TheRaven on Friday September 29 2017, @09:03AM (7 children)
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(Score: 2) by cubancigar11 on Friday September 29 2017, @11:42AM
Strange I wonder where the uncanny valley is with dildos... :|
(Score: 2) by FatPhil on Friday September 29 2017, @02:02PM (4 children)
But such cultural things are different from the current version of the uncanny valley aspect you started on, which is an individual perception. At the moment, the perception that's most significant is visual, and that of facial features, of musculature and movement, other aspects are still miles away from the uncanny valley. However, in coming decades, the perception of intelligence or sentience will indeed approach its own uncanny valley, and we'll start sympathising and empathising with objects lacking pathos. We live in interesting times. I have no idea how that will end up. I have a nasty feeling that robot rights will grow, and start to diminish human rights, but I'm a notorious pessimist.
Hmmm, probably time to drop Cheesoid... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FWP52PcdpAw
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(Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Friday September 29 2017, @03:25PM (3 children)
You're not kidding. I remember learning about a culture in a college anthropology course, think it was this one [wikipedia.org], where they boys are required to fellate men upon demand because they need to fill up with male essence to become men. The men, in turn, undertake ritual blood letting after having sex with women to rid themselves of the impure female essence, blood.
Next to that kind of thing a sex robot seems rather tame.
Washington DC delenda est.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 29 2017, @05:32PM
Yes, and I'm glad they stopped the cannibalism.
(Score: 3, Funny) by FatPhil on Friday September 29 2017, @10:26PM
(I avoided the "it must suck to be a boy in that tribe" joke, but that's certainly not because it was tasteless.)
Briefly, I thought you might be trolling Ari with the ancient grooming that used to take place, until I hovered over your link.
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(Score: 2) by dry on Saturday September 30 2017, @06:19AM
I think it was the young boys fellating (spelling checker don't like that) the older boys. Once they grew up, they married a woman and probably demanded oral sex but went heterosexual. Lots of cultures where the older women taught the young men. It's actually amazing how much of this stuff is cultural and even the worst stuff like kids fellating is normal somewhere and being normal isn't traumatic.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday September 30 2017, @01:57AM
Ask Ethanol-Fueled where his Tommy Gunn penis extender is in the uncanny valley.
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 29 2017, @02:57AM (4 children)
I can't tell whether you think banging an actual robot would make it more or less weird and wrong?
(Score: 2) by jmorris on Friday September 29 2017, @03:58AM (3 children)
Well it depends. Sooner or later we probably get realistic enough robots with realistic enough AI that I could at least imagine people getting emotionally invested or at least being able to suspend disbelief long enough that robot brothels or something become a thing.
That ain't what we are talking about here. At our current tech level these are just very expensive dolls, no sane person can think they are even a simulacrum of a sentient being. A rubber blowup doll with a little more weight to it and some sensors and actuators. It ain't even able to make you a sammich, thing can't even stand or walk. It can't DO anything. It ain't a robot; This thing can't even give ya a hand job. You can't have sex with it, all you can do is jerk off with an overpriced toy.
(Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Friday September 29 2017, @03:30PM (2 children)
You think so? I dunno.
The thing about using machines for sex is they are boring. What you get with them is always the same. Sex with real people is always a little bit different. A machine will only do what it's programmed to do, and do it over and over in the same way. A human being can go off-script. A human being can fall in love with you, or really desire you.
There's the crucial emotional dimension of sex. If you never have sex with anything but a machine or a prostitute, some part of you is going to feel depressed and empty. I know that as lonely and unsuccessful as I was when a young nerd it was why I was never interested in prostitutes or machines--it wouldn't have made me feel any better.
Washington DC delenda est.
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 29 2017, @08:04PM (1 child)
Speak for yourself. Personally, the only "depressed and empty" results I've had were the result of longer term relationships where the women, as they always, always do (I'm talking decades here), lose interest in sex.
Healthy men are driven to have sex. This remains stable until their hormones tank with age or disease. If they do. Or if they are exhausted - kids, work, etc. Although that doesn't slow down, much less stop, some guys either.
Healthy women, OTOH, are driven to hook men into providing security, which drive expresses itself as sexual desire. The catch is, when you actually do provide security, they lose that desire. Ramps right down. Happens every time. Anyone who doesn't believe me, either you have a massively rare individual on hand (not at all likely), or you just haven't been hanging with them long enough. I'm 60, in great shape, and the score is four for four long term relationships. Four very sexy, very beautiful women who turned into four sex-disinterested women. Four houses handed over, four divorces, four restarts (first one obviously not a restart.) My current lady is still cooking right along. I'm hoping I croak or my hormones tank before this one loses interest. If not... well, there goes house number five. Lots of houses out there...
(Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 29 2017, @10:07PM
There is an old parable about this: The first year you are married, every time you and your spouse have sex, put a marble into a jar. After a year passes, every time you and your spouse have sex, remove a marble from that jar. No matter how long you are married, the jar will never become empty.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 29 2017, @05:57AM (2 children)
I don't see what's bad about this. It's basically just a form of masturbation. If someone decided to hump an Elmo doll, I don't think I'd care about that either. The real problem is that they are (to me) hideous-looking.
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Friday September 29 2017, @01:36PM
Are they any more hideous looking than making a sex toy out of Boston Dynamics Atlas [google.com] or Petman [google.com]?
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(Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Friday September 29 2017, @03:31PM
Do others not use Mr. Raspberry Jam [grandtheftwiki.com]?
Washington DC delenda est.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday September 30 2017, @12:27AM
Wait, are you implying you wouldn't have sex with Tickle me Elmo?
It's sure better looking than this... thing (grin).
Actually, hell -- you could hit up a manufacturer on aliexpress and get a sex doll that doesn't look so weird and kind of frumpy. It's not robotic, but I'd honestly consider that a feature. Less maintenance and all.
also, it's not like the market category of sex toys hasn't existed for ages