tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post5254676783508537217..comments2024-03-29T00:04:32.434-05:00Comments on Althouse: "I propose that extending relations of prostitution into machines is neither ethical, nor is it safe... If anything the development of sex robots..."Ann Althousehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01630636239933008807noreply@blogger.comBlogger72125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-64997508135506773312015-09-17T12:48:37.657-05:002015-09-17T12:48:37.657-05:00Having sex alone exploits others? I wonder what he...Having sex alone exploits others? I wonder what her stand on masturbation is? "You'll go blind from exploitation!"<br />"You'll get exploitative hair on your palms!"<br /><br />What a wanker.Ken Bhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12976919713907046171noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-39120039996363812602015-09-17T07:00:03.971-05:002015-09-17T07:00:03.971-05:00For the recored, re my comment at 9:01 am, I take ...For the recored, re my comment at 9:01 am, I take it back. Should have known better. BNhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07800122398628075042noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-78956491358337880692015-09-16T08:17:22.673-05:002015-09-16T08:17:22.673-05:00OK, I had been riffing off the Althouse post up to...OK, I had been riffing off the Althouse post up to now. I just saw her picture. I am thinking if she lost 50 lbs, she might be kind of cute and her worries about sex robots would disappear.tim in vermonthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06547980465313241972noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-53671752619280855472015-09-16T02:29:59.206-05:002015-09-16T02:29:59.206-05:00Ignorance,
How many marriages would collapse if t...Ignorance,<br /><br />How many marriages would collapse if the woman knew her access to his resources was not dependent on her good behavior? <br /><br /><br />FIFY.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Oh, wait....Kirk Parkerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05921711310191924997noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-5565213540226383632015-09-15T20:50:52.610-05:002015-09-15T20:50:52.610-05:00why all the talk about sex robots as though they a...why all the talk about sex robots as though they are something from the sci-fi future ? as others have mentioned here, we already have vibrators, dildoes, fleshlights, auto-masturbators, e-stims, fuck machines, 'realistic' mouths, vaginas, anuses, and full-sized Real Dolls(tm), etc...all of which can induce some mind-blowing, satisfying orgasms without any contact with another human. granted, nobody has, as yet, put all of these devices together into one unit but that may be more of a matter of making the darn thing affordable. el polackohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13265451503377552500noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-83200937700425441252015-09-15T20:43:14.753-05:002015-09-15T20:43:14.753-05:00Ultimate Betamax 3000 bait and he's not here. ...Ultimate Betamax 3000 bait and he's not here. So sad. My only contribution is to query whether there will be a vegetable peeler attached for the cucumber.<br /><br />I am not Laslo.Cynicushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01160333202085417671noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-62104897995374678972015-09-15T17:46:26.000-05:002015-09-15T17:46:26.000-05:00Women should welcome the new sex robots. Sure, La...Women should welcome the new sex robots. Sure, Laslo will get his seraglio filled with robot versions of Scarlett Johannsson, Penelope Cruz, and Jessica Alba, but women will be able to have their own... who is it now, Bradley Cooper, Christian Bale, Tom Hardy? And for the lesbians, of course, Robert Pattinson.Char Char Binks, Esq.https://www.blogger.com/profile/10649888089413308406noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-30477025504933272012015-09-15T15:57:46.111-05:002015-09-15T15:57:46.111-05:00Fun fact: back in grad school, I had a professor ...Fun fact: back in grad school, I had a professor who decided to change her field of study from medieval history to post-colonial studies, and wrote about "colonizing" virtual reality. I didn't attempt to read her work, but the notion that virtual reality was a thing that could be colonized was preposterous.Jane the Actuaryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00899849681883954262noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-658292235272043832015-09-15T15:38:29.206-05:002015-09-15T15:38:29.206-05:00It's amazing, when you get into the weeds of h...It's amazing, when you get into the weeds of her argument.<br /><br />Apparently, using a manufactured commodity item as a substitute for a person is not dehumanizing, but negotiating a relationship (however short-term) with another human being in which mutual needs are voluntarily satisfied is dehumanizing. And the problem with robot sex is it's potentially too much like the <i>latter</i> rather than the former.Stevenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05138730966226244399noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-29113494540472958432015-09-15T14:24:41.994-05:002015-09-15T14:24:41.994-05:00tim in vermont said...
How many marriages would b...tim in vermont said...<br /><br /><i>How many marriages would be saved and homes not be broken if both partners were always sexually satisfied?</i><br /><br />You would think that, right? Yet that was not my wife's reaction when she walked in on me and the Roomba.<br />Ignorance is Blisshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02338942311894099159noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-7094601429204501442015-09-15T14:15:21.996-05:002015-09-15T14:15:21.996-05:00Lookin Out My Backdoor
Note the look on his face ...<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iApz08Bh53w" rel="nofollow">Lookin Out My Backdoor</a><br /><br />Note the look on his face at the very beginning, right when he discovers what prostate massage is.tim in vermonthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06547980465313241972noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-65177814952168025642015-09-15T14:11:21.940-05:002015-09-15T14:11:21.940-05:00I wonder if that Elon Musk robotic thingy does pro...I wonder if that Elon Musk robotic thingy does prostate massage? (See The Big Lebowski, My Back Door scene, if you are unfamiliar)tim in vermonthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06547980465313241972noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-75019046003277245962015-09-15T13:21:19.098-05:002015-09-15T13:21:19.098-05:00"These robots will contribute to more sexual ..."These robots will contribute to more sexual exploitation.”<br /><br />If prostitution is sexual exploitation, then wouldn't it lead to less exploitation? The market for prostitution would shrink. But then there would be a new movement to protect the rights of the sex robots. Yes, robots have rights, too!<br /><br />Meanwhile, all the actual robot scientists at De Montfort University are working on their own sex robot prototypes.<br /><br />lgvhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08433119199423489635noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-89113395955696974222015-09-15T13:19:47.810-05:002015-09-15T13:19:47.810-05:00Man + Robot. #LoveWins
I don't doubt that sex...Man + Robot. #LoveWins<br /><br />I don't doubt that sex robots that overcome the uncanny valley will be detrimental to civilization. But then, I think hoards of poverty stricken, low IQ, completely-different-culture-from-the-natives overrunning Europe and North America is as well, and these people support that, so...<br /><br />I'm going with it being the usual feminists opposing anything that shifts power away from women. "Sexual freedom", "My body my choice", "Autonomy of my own body", "Stay out of my sex life" will have a line drawn, and that line will be between the right to slaughter an unborn baby and the not-right to have sex with a machine that looks like Taylor Swift.Alexanderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15614995710278149328noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-62157435542058629272015-09-15T12:41:07.736-05:002015-09-15T12:41:07.736-05:00I walked away at that point because we really didn...I walked away at that point because we really didn't get along at the end.damikeschttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02133230009952160269noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-18547322990746040552015-09-15T12:35:11.456-05:002015-09-15T12:35:11.456-05:00damikesc said...
Technically, what is the differen...damikesc said...<br />Technically, what is the difference between a sex robot and, say, a dildo or a vibrator?<br /><br />Whenever my wife gets frisky in the morning, I just sigh and know I'm going to miss breakfast, and all I can think about is bacon and coffee, rather than the endless "almost!","almost!" she leads me on with...<br /><br />Better than one's who fake it. Had an ex who claimed to fake it after we broke up. I told her "It's cute that you think I care".<br /><br />9/15/15, 12:14 PM"<br /><br />Dude don't leave us hanging, what was her comeback retort?cubanbobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03746305669005611456noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-29013414856711775762015-09-15T12:14:37.804-05:002015-09-15T12:14:37.804-05:00Technically, what is the difference between a sex ...Technically, what is the difference between a sex robot and, say, a dildo or a vibrator?<br /><br /><b>Whenever my wife gets frisky in the morning, I just sigh and know I'm going to miss breakfast, and all I can think about is bacon and coffee, rather than the endless "almost!","almost!" she leads me on with...</b><br /><br />Better than one's who fake it. Had an ex who claimed to fake it after we broke up. I told her "It's cute that you think I care".damikeschttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02133230009952160269noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-65486159595498176272015-09-15T11:57:39.135-05:002015-09-15T11:57:39.135-05:00That is the stupidest argument on such a subject t...That is the <i>stupidest</i> argument on such a subject that I've ever heard.<br /><br />Is there some requirement that people who call themselves "ethicists" have to descend into self-parody?<br /><br />(I say this as someone with a Philosophy degree, who takes ethics-as-a-field-of-study <i>seriously</i> ... but "ethicists", at least the ones who end up in newspapers, don't seem to.<br /><br />"Informed by class, race, and gender"? You're not an ethicist - you're a gender/class theorist pretending to be an ethicist. They're not the same thing, not at all.)Sigivaldhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16152366541957466049noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-8370906526882996712015-09-15T11:47:33.987-05:002015-09-15T11:47:33.987-05:00Rick said...
It seems far more likely she's co...<i>Rick said...<br />It seems far more likely she's concerned that men finding sexual satisfaction without women will reduce female leverage.</i><br /><br />Which is also the basis for laws against prostitution.<br /><br /><i>Coupe said...<br />I'm going to put "almost!" on her tombstone.</i><br /><br /><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZU9gC8ib9P0" rel="nofollow">"That's your name - Almost"</a> ("Apocalypto")Fernandinandehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11253225431705407699noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-19457817320847991342015-09-15T11:31:32.402-05:002015-09-15T11:31:32.402-05:00I am waiting for the robot with a heart of gold.I am waiting for the robot with a heart of gold.tim in vermonthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06547980465313241972noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-67937589616766303762015-09-15T11:30:22.800-05:002015-09-15T11:30:22.800-05:00Maybe The End Timers are on to something. Sex robo...Maybe The End Timers are on to something. Sex robots? Yet another in the current parade of horrible. <br /><br />As for this researcher, I find it difficult to believe someone actually gets paid to come up with this ridiculousness. cubanbobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03746305669005611456noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-25500388475689470372015-09-15T11:25:46.594-05:002015-09-15T11:25:46.594-05:00The one thing I find wearing, is my wife takes for...The one thing I find wearing, is my wife takes forever to have an orgasm.<br /><br />What I'd like, is a robot to do all the grunt work, and then I can pop-in at the last minute, because that's about all the time I need.<br /><br />Whenever my wife gets frisky in the morning, I just sigh and know I'm going to miss breakfast, and all I can think about is bacon and coffee, rather than the endless "almost!","almost!" she leads me on with...<br /><br />I'm going to put "almost!" on her tombstone.<br />Etiennehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02463542962653770911noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-32264086923010257312015-09-15T10:47:46.134-05:002015-09-15T10:47:46.134-05:00IDK, Laslo, about the scent thing. There is a ski ...IDK, Laslo, about the scent thing. There is a ski area around here called Sugarbush, and my first thought when I heard of it was "How did they know about my girlfriend?"<br /><br />tim in vermonthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06547980465313241972noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-90117240209284501112015-09-15T10:31:05.941-05:002015-09-15T10:31:05.941-05:00Also, male masturbation should be outlawed because...Also, male masturbation should be outlawed because it unfairly tips the gender scales by making women less necessary. The ease with which a man can satisfy himself sexually can only harm women. It makes a man less interested in buying a woman dinner and asking her about her life and dreams. Making a sex slave robot will just compound female suffering.<br /><br />A decent man would acknowledge his privilege and forswear masturbation forever.blehhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01463010473842132191noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-61103523814430229782015-09-15T10:21:48.004-05:002015-09-15T10:21:48.004-05:00Pro-choice. It's a little late to start worry...Pro-choice. It's a little late to start worrying about human relationships, dignity, and rights. There is only congruence, diversity, and commodities.n.nhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04252447117532342957noreply@blogger.com