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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: 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.