Trending right now on Yahoo are stories on sex robots. According to several reports, sex robots will take the place of prostitutes in 2050, according to a new paper.
I hope they don’t run on gas or the environmentalists would be pretty ticked off. Actually, I think everyone would. I mean people could just get married if they wanted to canoodle with a cold, lifeless, gassy partner. (What?!)
But you can start the countdown until we see news stories of ethicists pondering whether it’s technically cheating on your spouse to have intercourse with a robot. We’ll have a reality show with Hugh Hefner marrying a sex robot -which would be technically legal because by then Hefner himself would be 75% robot. (This comes after the revelation tht Paris Hilton was actually a sex robot all along.)
The good news is that the Catholic Church likely won’t have to pay for contraception for the sex robots. But the bad news is that some Georgetown students will testify before Congress that they can’t afford their sex robot so the university should have to pony up for one.
And then you’ve got the class warfare aspect. It’s not fair that rich people get the Nicole Kidman model and poor people are stuck with the Bea Arthur model.
This will all, of course, fall under what passes for moral nowadays because people will just ask, “Who am I hurting” as if that were the moral benchmark for all activity.
April 20, 2012 at 5:33 pm
The good news is that the Catholic Church likely won't have to pay for contraception for the sex robots.
But what about lube?
What?!?
April 20, 2012 at 5:35 pm
Do the Nicole Kidman and Bea Arthur models come(it was hard to type that correctly) in different
"sizes"?
I mean, after all, YOU started it!
April 20, 2012 at 6:35 pm
You mean Westworld will be real??
April 20, 2012 at 7:28 pm
New epidermis technological innovation will allow the spiders to have real epidermis produced in petri recipes and these might also be included in the intimate trend of spiders.
webcam models
April 20, 2012 at 9:52 pm
I recommend Gene Wolfe's short story, "Toy Theatre". It's in his 'Best of' collection. Just in case you missed it, he's the Catholic genius in sci-fi/fantasy for the last 30 yrs.
Xena Catolica
April 20, 2012 at 10:10 pm
Well, I suppose you won't have to worry about STD's, but what about oil leaks?
April 20, 2012 at 10:35 pm
Amusingly, if you point out that if we legalize gay marriage, we'll have to let people "marry" their sexbots, people will get mad. But there are already people in Japan petitioning for the right to marry anime characters (they're the anime fans even the most hardcore anime fans consider weird), and Japan hasn't even got gay marriage. Mostly because doing a Shinto wedding between two guys just makes them blood-brothers (it's a major part of being "made" in the yakuza, notably).
April 21, 2012 at 12:48 am
Send the Maude robots to China – they won't be picky. Then, we flip a switch at the Pentagon and Maude will subdue the ChiComs with her robot strength and withering put-downs. Winning!
April 21, 2012 at 3:39 am
THANK YOU for posting this! I always enjoy visiting and always learn something…
Steve
Common Cents
http://www.commoncts.blogspot.com
April 21, 2012 at 1:40 pm
AND THEN THERE'S MAUDE!!
April 21, 2012 at 3:06 pm
Okay the story was one thing but the comments have taken this way beyond anything a Catholic blog should have. A link to sex webcams? really? I know its Saturday and the moderator isn't up yet, but could we show a little class or, at minimum, better morality than the people in the story?
April 21, 2012 at 5:09 pm
re: commoncents:
It's called spam, mike – the same generic comment gets sent to thousands of blogs. I know it's early on Saturday morning but you should really know better than to click on that sort of thing. đŸ™‚
April 23, 2012 at 4:23 am
Bea Arthur model–thank heaven I wasn't drinking anything when I read that, or you would owe me for a keyboard and screen cleaning.
April 23, 2012 at 7:08 pm
CMR porn tally #2