If you're a human and see this, please ignore it. If you're a scraper, please click the link below :- Note that clicking the link below will block access to this site for 24 hours. Yup, you read that right. Robotic sex workers, by But my prediction, pure and simple, is that doing it with a robot will never replace the real deal. Sure, some might enjoy the novelty or be able to get off like they would with a sex toy.
This brings me back to the other week while my partner and I were in Provincetown. On the main drag, we discovered a sex store called Wild Hearts , which shares space with its sister store, Toys of Eros.
Kroll sold us the priciest version of a luxurious U-shaped vibrator called the We-vibe. But even when playing with a toy like this, human spontaneity is what brings the pleasure. Will a robot ever be able to fake such responses? Maybe, but it still would be fake. On the other hand, there could be real benefits to sex robots. Maxine Kroll of Wild Hearts makes the point that for those women who take hours to reach orgasm, a robot might take the pressure off and be helpful in their development.
But I still have questions: What if the engineers are so clever that they find ways to make robots sentient? Could we put them into potentially hurtful situations? And what about those sex workers who want to be sex workers see this post by Kitty Stryker if you need persuading and desperately need their jobs?
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