Question. If they create AI robots that are life-like
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The question needs to be tweaked, I think.
Is the robot able to requite your affections or is it just a sophisticated dildo?
If it's just a sophisticated dildo with no sentiment for you, then you need to ask yourself (as a prior corollary) if you're cheating on a spouse when you're pleasuring yourself with a mechanical instrument.
Is the robot able to requite your affections or is it just a sophisticated dildo?
If it's just a sophisticated dildo with no sentiment for you, then you need to ask yourself (as a prior corollary) if you're cheating on a spouse when you're pleasuring yourself with a mechanical instrument.
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Utilizing a sex doll is extremely degenerate. Maybe it isnt technically cheating but certainly grounds for divorce.
Indeed.
That would be my next question. Is consent obtained from all parties involved, assuming a consciousness of sorts on the part of an AI?
Well, by life-like AI, I mean it's human-like. Feelings, etc. I'm not saying what exactly may have transpired between you and the robot to get to the sex part. That's for you to imagine. You create the restrictions, definitions, etc. Two actual humans can have sex without engaging in sentiment, so...
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No matter how sophisticate the robot, it's still a robot. I think it's a sexual toy. I think they would be a god send for those individuals that have difficulty with being social.
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Hey, Lil! How 'bout them partners who can't keep up, eh?
I'd rather go without altogether than get whatever the female version of blue balls is...wtf motherfucker?!
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If women had to actually have an orgasm to get pregnant, there would be like 23 people on the plant right now.
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I think that an emotional affair is worse than a physical one. Here you have both.
Intuitively, I'd have to say yes. But I'm not sure why.
Thinking out loud here...
Firstly, it sort of depends on how two individuals in a couple define their union or their marriage. If both have agreed to engage themselves in a non-exclusive union, then of course sex on the side with a robot on the part of one partner is like sex on the side with a human, i.e., it's not cheating. But this is a trivial truth.
The harder problem is figuring out in what way a robot is like a human when it comes to sex on the side for a partner engaged in an otherwise exclusive union.
Secondly, and even before either a robot or another human enters the picture (or the bedroom), both partners need to see eye to eye on what it means for one of them to cheat on the other. Is it when an "outsider" brings you happiness or emotional fulfillment? Or just brings you off? Or both? Or neither? How many times do we see or hear of cheating spouses who seek to exculpate themselves by claiming their transgression was purely mechanical (so to speak)? "Honey, I swear! She (or He or, in this case, It) meant absolutely nothing to me!" when, in fact, it may most certainly mean something to "Honey." Those who are married but engage in these kinds of "meaningless" trysts or adventures may as well defend themselves by claiming they were only fucking a robot.
Finally, there's the prudish and outdated notion that, in any relationship, each of the two partners is to have exclusive domain when it comes to the sexual and emotional satisfaction of the otner. I've encountered couples that were ultimately destroyed by one partner having caught the other pleasuring themselves in their absence or having expressed a desire to indulge in fantasy games or to use sex toys and accessories. The slighted partner feels somehow cheated. "Am I not enough for you?" the complaint goes. Obviously not. This is a golden opportunity for partners to explore their sexual boundaries, but most couples that I know don't and won't. The inner core of who they are as sexual beings is to remain private. By all means, if sexual incompatibilities are too great to overcome, separation on the basis of irreconcilable differences seems almost inevitable. And there's no tragedy in this. When people are withering in a situation where they ought to be flowering, and no amount of couples therapy has had any impact at all, it's time to call it a night.
So.
Where am I going with this? Well, seems to me that whoever seeks sexual pleasure outside their union with a "human-shaped" artificial being is committing no great offense IF they know their partner would not be offended by them resorting to such a device. Who knows? They themselves could even get a sexual kick out of watching. BUT: if someone seeks out such a device in order to supplant (rather than complement) the emotional fulfillment they would normally derive from being partnered to their spouse (hence the supposition that this robot would have to be equipped with the ability to requite affection), then, yes, there's cheating going on.
I say all this, but I still need to think things through.
A fascinating question, Lotus.
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This thread reminds me of Fallout 4. (Great game btw)
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The AI robot shit is off the scale, they're not at the point where these machines (because that's what they are, not people) can flawlessly pass as real humans....
However, give it another few decades and this shit is going to be a reality and human clones will very likely be an accepted and recognised phenomenon within mainstream culture.
However, give it another few decades and this shit is going to be a reality and human clones will very likely be an accepted and recognised phenomenon within mainstream culture.
Hmmmm. And two of them would still be mine.
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That's a good time to exit the planet.
What I meant was, I would still be a mother, because, well, orgasms were definitely had.
I know what you meant, lass.
Bad orgasms (or no orgasms) elicited my "Aw." Partly in jest, to be sure.
Hence the good vibes I sent your way.
Orgasms may not be the end-all and be-all (at least not for the majority of women for whom self-pleasuring is anathema) but they're fun when they drop by for a visit.
Bad orgasms (or no orgasms) elicited my "Aw." Partly in jest, to be sure.
Hence the good vibes I sent your way.
Orgasms may not be the end-all and be-all (at least not for the majority of women for whom self-pleasuring is anathema) but they're fun when they drop by for a visit.
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u cant cheat with an inanimate object
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I'm still there with you. I can't feel cheated on by something you can just unplug or allow battery to run down.
