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Robots in films and tv

TheCatWoman

I've see some films and tv programs where some bloke ends up having sex with an attractive robot home assistant, who starts to take on the role of "wife". I wonder why there are no similar films and tv where it's an attractive male robot home assistant who tries to push the husband aside?

Is it a male sexual fantasy?

Is it a male fear that women would find a hunky young robot more attractive?

Would women not be as interested?

I'd just like to explore this a little more, what would a film with a hunky male robot taking on the "husband" role look like? Would it be the same or different>

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  • It is noticeable that the most humanoid robots, androids, tend to be female. Sophia, Erica, and so on. Sophia has (been programmed) to declare vlciferkhsly that dating her might be boring, as she is not 'fully functional' down there.

    There are certain fully equipped blow-up dolls of course, and these have been around since the 70's. Females that is. I can't say I've made a point of doing research into whether or not there are fully equipped male dolls. 

    But the literature does hold out the idea that most females would in fact be looking more than whether or not an a froid would enjoy full functionality, as Data first coyly remind Diker, on first meeting, and as Gasba Yar wanted to know. I don't think she fell in love with him though, vutvGanith Lee did write a pretty steamy tale about a young girl who does fall madly in love with a robot, and runs away with him. But it's not the package tbat matters most to her, but her suspicion, madly denied on the part of the robot, that he has a soul. 

    And there you have it. The much more pressing question is at what point of programming could a robot be said to possess consciousness, rather than just being a clever and responsive machine. And does AI have it ? Has SF ready caught up? 

    Some humanoid robots sell their artworks for millions, when many sad mortals sell theirs for peanuts. 

    Some SF takes this argument from the other angle, exploring the idea of selective empathy, which most ordinary, nice individuals possess. When we assign full humanity to some groups of people, but not to others. And what it is like for those whim we do not assign full humanity. The book Planet of the Apes is all about that. The writer had been a prisoner of war in a Japanese camp..... 

  • in reply to Nexus11

    Sorry for the typos. But I don't want to end up with problems again if I try to edit this. 

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