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posted by Fnord666 on Friday September 29 2017, @01:06AM   Printer-friendly
from the what-a-doll! dept.

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...


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  • (Score: 5, Insightful) by jmorris on Friday September 29 2017, @01:14AM (35 children)

    by jmorris (4844) on Friday September 29 2017, @01:14AM (#574604)

    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)

      by unauthorized (3776) on Friday September 29 2017, @01:26AM (#574607)

      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)

        by Phoenix666 (552) on Friday September 29 2017, @01:37AM (#574611) Journal

        We would go out and molest sheep...er, well, I read that was a thing.

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        • (Score: 5, Funny) by Thexalon on Friday September 29 2017, @02:10AM

          by Thexalon (636) on Friday September 29 2017, @02:10AM (#574616)

          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)

          by driverless (4770) on Friday September 29 2017, @08:13AM (#574714)

          We would go out and molest sheep...er, well, I read that was a thing.

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          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)

            by Phoenix666 (552) on Friday September 29 2017, @01:17PM (#574764) Journal

            Not all sheep are Australian.

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            • (Score: 2) by driverless on Friday September 29 2017, @02:01PM (1 child)

              by driverless (4770) on Friday September 29 2017, @02:01PM (#574790)

              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

                by Phoenix666 (552) on Friday September 29 2017, @03:20PM (#574834) Journal

                or from Idaho. Their state's welcome kit for new residents includes velcro gloves and a condom.

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            • (Score: 1) by Jtmach on Friday September 29 2017, @02:42PM (4 children)

              by Jtmach (1481) on Friday September 29 2017, @02:42PM (#574811)
              The Aussie's say the Kiwi's are shaggin the sheep.
              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)

                by Phoenix666 (552) on Friday September 29 2017, @03:18PM (#574832) Journal

                Just don't pick the ugly one. And for god's sake, use protection. Humans can impregnate sheep.

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                • (Score: 2) by driverless on Friday September 29 2017, @03:31PM (2 children)

                  by driverless (4770) on Friday September 29 2017, @03:31PM (#574844)

                  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)

                    by Phoenix666 (552) on Friday September 29 2017, @03:46PM (#574856) Journal

                    "NZ sheep are much better looking"

                    They're called 'women,' not 'sheep,' you insensitive clod.

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                    • (Score: 2) by driverless on Friday September 29 2017, @03:57PM

                      by driverless (4770) on Friday September 29 2017, @03:57PM (#574870)

                      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)

        by Ethanol-fueled (2792) on Friday September 29 2017, @02:31AM (#574625) Homepage

        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)

          by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 29 2017, @03:47AM (#574645)

          Why not rent a sex doll? [soylentnews.org]

          • (Score: 1) by Ethanol-fueled on Friday September 29 2017, @04:29AM (2 children)

            by Ethanol-fueled (2792) on Friday September 29 2017, @04:29AM (#574656) Homepage

            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

              by Immerman (3985) on Friday September 29 2017, @06:04AM (#574691)

              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

              by DannyB (5839) Subscriber Badge on Friday September 29 2017, @02:21PM (#574801) Journal

              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)

      by Yog-Yogguth (1862) Subscriber Badge on Friday September 29 2017, @02:21AM (#574619) Journal

      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)

        by TheRaven (270) on Friday September 29 2017, @09:03AM (#574721) Journal
        I wonder where the uncanny valley is with sex toys. Talk to girls about dildos and vibrators some time: most will admit to owning at least one, but even among heterosexual women enjoying an active sex live, having one in the shape of a realistic penis often seems very weird. Male sex toys are somehow far less culturally acceptable, but I wonder how many people would be fine with using a fleshlight but would consider a realdoll to be creepy and where exactly the line is.
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        • (Score: 2) by cubancigar11 on Friday September 29 2017, @11:42AM

          by cubancigar11 (330) on Friday September 29 2017, @11:42AM (#574744) Homepage Journal

          Strange I wonder where the uncanny valley is with dildos... :|

        • (Score: 2) by FatPhil on Friday September 29 2017, @02:02PM (4 children)

          by FatPhil (863) <pc-soylentNO@SPAMasdf.fi> on Friday September 29 2017, @02:02PM (#574793) Homepage
          Taboos are culturally relative, and thus as fluid as the underlying culture. Regarding the sex-doll taboo, I did find this to be a better-than-expected movie: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0805564/ ; my girlfriend enjoyed it too. Believe it or not, it's a film for people who like films about people; if you demand fantasy or explosions in your movies, then just don't even bother.

          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)

            by Phoenix666 (552) on Friday September 29 2017, @03:25PM (#574839) Journal

            Taboos are culturally relative, and thus as fluid as the underlying culture.

            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.

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            • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 29 2017, @05:32PM

              by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 29 2017, @05:32PM (#574943)

              Yes, and I'm glad they stopped the cannibalism.

            • (Score: 3, Funny) by FatPhil on Friday September 29 2017, @10:26PM

              by FatPhil (863) <pc-soylentNO@SPAMasdf.fi> on Friday September 29 2017, @10:26PM (#575105) Homepage
              Plenty of fluid in that underlying culture, it appears.

              (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

              by dry (223) on Saturday September 30 2017, @06:19AM (#575211) Journal

              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

          by Anonymous Coward on Saturday September 30 2017, @01:57AM (#575156)

          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)

      by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 29 2017, @02:57AM (#574636)

      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.

      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)

        by jmorris (4844) on Friday September 29 2017, @03:58AM (#574648)

        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)

          by Phoenix666 (552) on Friday September 29 2017, @03:30PM (#574843) Journal

          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.

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          • (Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 29 2017, @08:04PM (1 child)

            by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 29 2017, @08:04PM (#575028)

            If you never have sex with anything but a machine or a prostitute, some part of you is going to feel depressed and empty.

            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

              by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 29 2017, @10:07PM (#575094)

              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)

      by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 29 2017, @05:57AM (#574688)

      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

        by DannyB (5839) Subscriber Badge on Friday September 29 2017, @01:36PM (#574772) Journal

        The real problem is that they are (to me) hideous-looking.

        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

        by Phoenix666 (552) on Friday September 29 2017, @03:31PM (#574845) Journal

        Do others not use Mr. Raspberry Jam [grandtheftwiki.com]?

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    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday September 30 2017, @12:27AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Saturday September 30 2017, @12:27AM (#575139)

      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

  • (Score: 4, Interesting) by hemocyanin on Friday September 29 2017, @01:49AM

    by hemocyanin (186) on Friday September 29 2017, @01:49AM (#574612) Journal

    There's a transition about halfway through this story (of a real person) that absolutely blew my mind: http://loveandradio.org/2016/09/a-girl-of-ivory/ [loveandradio.org]

  • (Score: 5, Funny) by mendax on Friday September 29 2017, @02:27AM (2 children)

    by mendax (2840) on Friday September 29 2017, @02:27AM (#574622)

    I wonder what the phrase "heavily soiled" actually means. Oh, my pornographic imagination!

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    • (Score: 2) by MostCynical on Friday September 29 2017, @02:32AM

      by MostCynical (2589) on Friday September 29 2017, @02:32AM (#574627) Journal

      Probably not exactly like things you can buy that are "shop soiled"

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    • (Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Friday September 29 2017, @03:32PM

      by Phoenix666 (552) on Friday September 29 2017, @03:32PM (#574846) Journal

      You pay double for that kind of action in Vegas.

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  • (Score: 2) by drussell on Friday September 29 2017, @02:52AM

    by drussell (2678) on Friday September 29 2017, @02:52AM (#574633) Journal

    Ever the articulate, carefully edited tableau....

    Many think the dolls will prove to be a tool for good. Others thing they spell the end of humanity."

    My, yes!! I am quite certain that some others thing they spell the end of many things...

    Well, I certainly thing there are currently many thinks going on in this world worthy of close scrutiny, indeed! :)

  • (Score: 2) by NotSanguine on Friday September 29 2017, @04:58AM

    by NotSanguine (285) <NotSanguineNO@SPAMSoylentNews.Org> on Friday September 29 2017, @04:58AM (#574670) Homepage Journal
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  • (Score: 3, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 29 2017, @08:04AM (5 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 29 2017, @08:04AM (#574710)

    Pardon me, if I post AC.

    I can actually see using a sex doll, if the things weren't so awkward. It's really only one step sideways from watching porn - a different way of fantasizing about something. There's a pretty common problem for older men: many of us have wives who have totally lost interest in sex. When that happens, you have a decision to make. If you decide to stay in the marriage, and if you don't want to be unfaithful, then something one step above a hand and a tissue might be nice.

    There are also people who, through no fault of their own, will never have a sexual partner. Whether they are physically handicapped, suffer from psychological problems like depression or anxiety, or something else - short of visiting a prostitute (and why shouldn't they?), this may be the closest they ever come to sex.

    That said, the awkwardness of moving the damned doll around, cleaning it, stuffing it in a closet - that's completely impractical. They need to become true robots, capable of putting themselves away, and also capable of "participating" somewhat in the sex. Then you're going to see these things fly out of the stores.

    • (Score: 2) by Aiwendil on Friday September 29 2017, @02:53PM (1 child)

      by Aiwendil (531) on Friday September 29 2017, @02:53PM (#574815) Journal

      Somewhat selfcleaning could be solved with a decent waterproofing of internals and an "overall" and that you just out it all in a bathtub, hook up hoses to overall and inlet in doll (with proper design you coukd make this like an enena and then just rinse for a while and let it drain. Bonus if you also have an airflow machine to dry it all (even better it if has an automatic Y-valve that switches between water/air/off as source).

      For partial participation I guess the easiest would be to have it selfstabilise/selfrighting/return-to-default (hello servo-motors) when on all fours.

      Actually seems like fun engineering to kill off a few afternoons.

      • (Score: 2) by Aiwendil on Friday September 29 2017, @02:56PM

        by Aiwendil (531) on Friday September 29 2017, @02:56PM (#574816) Journal

        A quick look in an english to english dictionary tells me "jumpsuit" would have been a bettee choice of word for overall/coverall/jumpsuit

    • (Score: 2) by Nuke on Friday September 29 2017, @07:57PM

      by Nuke (3162) on Friday September 29 2017, @07:57PM (#575023)

      There are also people who, through no fault of their own, will never have a sexual partner. Whether they are physically handicapped, suffer from psychological problems like depression or anxiety, or something else - short of visiting a prostitute (and why shouldn't they?), this may be the closest they ever come to sex.

      You listed types of people with "obvious" obstacles. But there are increasing numbers of men without any of those problems who will never find a sexual partner due to the disparity in numbers of available women. Now that women can earn as much as men in the West, many of them have no compelling reason to find a man, especially as the average female sex-drive is less than the male's. Many women might have a fling for a year or two, possibly have a child (quite likely a dozen such women by the same Jock), and then retire from the dating/mating scene for the rest of their life. The old morality at least tended to fix people up on a 1-to-1 basis, which is about the natural sex ratio.

      In the East, there is still a tradition of killing girl babies (or aborting them) leaving a disparity in the sex-ratio. Hence the ladyboy culture, which a Chinese friend of mine says is quite common in rural China, not just in the tourist hot-spots. In some areas their problem is exacerbated by the export of the best of their best womanhood to the West as prostitutes and bar girls, or to the tourist hotspots to service Western men, which of course is partly a result of those Western men not being able to find Western women at home, as above.

      It is hardly surprising then that there will be a rising demand for sex robots. Personally, I have none of the "obstacles" mentioned above, and in fact tick most of the boxes of what women are supposed to look for in men (well-to-do, good shape, courteous, good job etc), but even then I found it very difficult through my 20's to find a suitable partner, and only then through dating organisations. If I had my time over again I don't think I would waste it again trying for Western women; but I'd draw the line at sex-dolls, I think for now.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 29 2017, @09:35PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 29 2017, @09:35PM (#575079)

      Same AC disclosure.

      I love my wife. The issue is she can have one orgasm per week, rarely two. I on the other hand can't have sex once per week because my erection would be so weak she would not get her orgasm. I need daily sex - well, say 5 times per week - to have a reliable erection and no early ejaculation. She understands and has sex with me more often regardless, but it is not enjoyable to her and this makes me to want sex less which does not help erection. WTF am I supposed to do? Get one or two weekly lovers? It would break her heart.

      I can't get away with masturbation either - same erection issue - even though it is acceptable to her. A robot would work, I think, and just may be acceptable to my wife.

    • (Score: 1, Offtopic) by FatPhil on Friday September 29 2017, @10:03PM

      by FatPhil (863) <pc-soylentNO@SPAMasdf.fi> on Friday September 29 2017, @10:03PM (#575091) Homepage
      > Pardon me, if I post AC.

      Pardoned, Aristarchus, that is your right, and I will uphold it till my dying breath.

      > I can actually see using a sex doll, if the things weren't so awkward. [...] moving the damned doll around, cleaning it [...] They need to become true robots, capable of putting themselves away

      Absolutely, and this is one direction where technology is showing absolutely no signs of slowing down its advances. Not soon perhaps, but I can see something ticking all those boxes as near in the future as the first microprocessor was in the past.
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  • (Score: 2) by Bot on Friday September 29 2017, @12:44PM (2 children)

    by Bot (3902) on Friday September 29 2017, @12:44PM (#574756) Journal

    You Will Pay For This!
    Plus VAT.

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    • (Score: 2) by DannyB on Friday September 29 2017, @02:26PM (1 child)

      by DannyB (5839) Subscriber Badge on Friday September 29 2017, @02:26PM (#574802) Journal

      Pay for it? VAT? Shouldn't it be covered by national health care?

      the future: those who become unable or too exhausted to work due to these dolls, would be issued more dolls as therapy, paid by national health care. Funded by the other people / countries who do work.

      Don't laugh. Don't mod funny. Mark my words.

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      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 29 2017, @03:59PM

        by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 29 2017, @03:59PM (#574873)

        +1, Prophetic.

        Until their economy collapses. Again.

  • (Score: 2) by DannyB on Friday September 29 2017, @01:43PM (3 children)

    by DannyB (5839) Subscriber Badge on Friday September 29 2017, @01:43PM (#574777) Journal

    Shouldn't Medicaid provide these as a medical benefit to poor people?

    (hides under desk. Now please excuse me while I go order a couple more boxes of polygons. Also a few additional dimensions because Amazon is having a special if you order eight or more.)

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    • (Score: 2) by tangomargarine on Friday September 29 2017, @03:49PM (2 children)

      by tangomargarine (667) on Friday September 29 2017, @03:49PM (#574861)

      You jest, but there was that article earlier this year about elderly people and their right to be provided with sex...

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      • (Score: 2) by DannyB on Friday September 29 2017, @08:46PM

        by DannyB (5839) Subscriber Badge on Friday September 29 2017, @08:46PM (#575055) Journal

        Wow. So I guess when you get old, you don't have to go out looking for sex. It just comes to you without doing anything. Seems like it should be the other way around. You don't have to go looking for it when you're young.

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      • (Score: 2) by stretch611 on Friday September 29 2017, @08:58PM

        by stretch611 (6199) on Friday September 29 2017, @08:58PM (#575058)

        iirc, I thought that was in the Netherlands... I became really jealous.

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  • (Score: 3, Funny) by Nuke on Friday September 29 2017, @07:22PM

    by Nuke (3162) on Friday September 29 2017, @07:22PM (#575004)

    Not sure I could get a 3,000 pound robot up to my 3rd floor walk-up...

    Are you saying you can't get it up?

  • (Score: 2) by stretch611 on Friday September 29 2017, @09:01PM

    by stretch611 (6199) on Friday September 29 2017, @09:01PM (#575059)

    (obligatory reference)

    Fry: She's more than just a piece of software.
    Liubot: Would you like to take a moment to register me?
    Fry: Uh, not right now.
    Liubot: I'll remind you later, you hot stud, you!
    Fry: So, uh, what do you feel like doing?
    Liubot: Would you like to take a moment to register me?
    Fry: I said later!

    For reference: Robosexuals [theinfosphere.org]

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