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I learned a new word today: dildonics. Dildonics is the science of computer-controlled sex devices. I found this word in Robin Marantz Henig’s NYTBR review of David Levy’s Love and Sex with Robots, The Evolution of Human-Robot Relationships. According to Henig, Levy makes a good case for his assertion that robot-human sexual relationships will be common practice by the middle of this century. Not just guys-and-lovedolls, but people settling down for long, committed relationships to . . . Rosie.
. . . Levy cites the gradual shift in the public view of what is acceptable in terms of sexual pairings. People used to be widely appalled by such variations as oral sex, masturbation and homosexuality, but today these practices are “widely regarded as thoroughly normal and as leading to fulfilling relationships and satisfactory sex lives.” All he wants is for us to open our minds a tiny bit more, and make room for th e idea of having sex with the domestic robots that will soon be part of all our lives. In fact, he argues, the human/robot sex of the future promises to be better than most sex between humans is today.
(Anyone remember an old George R R Martin story, “Meathouse Man”?)
On the one hand, I think this is all very sad.
On the other, I can think of several people who would be better off with robo-spouses. Can’t you?
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From the IMDB FAQ on Terminator 2, Judgment Day:
What about the T-800’s lost arm in the steel mill…Â [Huh. That’s a good point.]
If the T-800 model is a known serial killer from the first movie, why would the Human Resistence send back an identical model? [Yeah! Why?]
Why didn’t Reese warn Sarah about more advanced terminators travelling through time to kill her? [YEAH! And why didn’t they just send the baddest ass terminator they had, right from the start? And why didn’t they just kill Sarah’s grandfather? Doubt he was as buff as Linda Hamilton!]
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I’m stuck in the office on dial-up, verrry slow, and I have a meeting from hell this evening. So, sorry folks, but no Thirteen today. This post was painful enough, watching letters appear o n e . . . a t . . . a . . . t i m e. If this laptop were a sex partner, she’d be the kind who could only function after three qualuudes and a half dozen massive bong hits.
D.
The workings of causation as implied in the Terminator series would seem to be that when travelling in time you can futz with the details, but in the end everything works out basically pretty much the same anyway. Presumably that’s not something that the scientists/machines who send the terminators/defenders back have worked out yet.
I’m sure there’s weasel words in the backstory about limitations on the distance back in time you can go (hence no grandpa assasination). And maybe the second type terminator wasn’t yet available when the first was sent.
But of course, Connor should have known in the future about both, and could have told Reese – unless of course – causation dictated that the future was changed as a result of each time trip – so there are 3 futures.
First: in which no terminators were ever sent, and Reese and the terminator are sent
Second: in which the result od sending Reese and the first terminator were known about and they decide to send the second wave
Third: whatever future resulted from both terminator3.
hmmm.if you want to see a VERY VERY VERY graphic illustration of how robot sex is teh awesome, check out http://www.adultwebcomics.com//comics/geesten.php 😀 don’t even ask. just enjoy. you have to go back to feb 2 2007 to get the first one.
i’ve never seen the terminator. is this a bad thing???
and my computer was being uberslow like that yesterday. i restarted it. now is good. but i was ready to SMACK IT.
Dildonics. Best. Word. Ever.
Love it.
Thanks for the post!
M
How about teledildonics — dildonics that can be operated at a distance?
No, I’m not making the word up.
Yup, that was in the post, too.
I’ve learned a lot today. I’ve learned, for example, that Dildonics is not a book by L. Ron Hubbard.
Am I the only person who has ever seen the movie Cherry 2000??? The movie where the man is married to a robot that gets fried during sex when the dishwasher leaks, and he goes on a mad search to find her exact replacement, but falls in love with the very real Melanie Griffith instead?? Anyone?
I’ll not take a robot lover until they come as good as Data, and I know he’d be worth the cryogenics. Frozen for ages just to wake up on the Star Ship Enterprise. Sigh…Would be worth it just to growl at a Klingon.
Must reign in before I completely geek-out.
I dunno…you’ve got to be really careful about programming those robot lovers. Look what happened with Warren’s on Buffy.
Lyvvie: Yes, but why have sex with Data when you can have the Klingon instead?
Okay, Darla, you have to provide more detail. We’re not ALL Buffy fans around here . . .
My personal favorite tale of dildonics is The Silver Metal Lover by Tanith Lee.
First time I read that, I thought you were telling me about some signature line of vibrator. And then I remembered, Oh! Tanith Lee . . .
Lyvvie’s right, Data is hot. Remember, he is “fully functional.”
Not sure I could deal with a Klingon. Don’t they have three testicles? Not sure about their other equipment but I’m sure I read that in one of the Star Trek books.
Sex with the Klingon? All that hair and biting?? Maybe for a one-nighter, but those Klingons are “Mate for life” types. Turn into stalkers at the first nip and hair pull. Too needy for my tastes. Which is again, why Data is the best! He’s not all needy and emotional. Who’d want a big, burly Beta Klingon when Data’s there?? A guy who can plug in his emotions chip at will! You can’t tell me, as a man, that you’ve never once wished you could remove a woman’s emotion chip.
Klingon’s have three testicles??
Lyvvie, you forget, my wife is a Vulcan 🙂