Sex-robot has "family mode" switch so kids can play with it. Ethicist says it is "profoundly damaging" to children

PedoBear always thinks of the children.

I think it’s less about “one day the kids will grow up to learn that their daddy used a sex toy” than “one day those kids will realize they were actually PLAYING WITH their daddy’s sex toy.”

Lots of folks have sexual kinks, most just don’t try to parlay said kinks into “fun for the whole family!”

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I think the video in the comment above yours may illuminate the connection.

Um, most parents don’t have the talk of: “hey, you know that thing that always sat on the livingroom that you used to play with? That was your daddy’s cumsock.”

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Ok, I’m guessing none of these people watched Humans.


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Definitely strikes me as gross and weird, but I can’t objectively find it weirder or grosser than raising your kids to believe in god and telling them that the grape juice they are drinking is human(*) blood. So I guess it is a matter of perspective.

Just like raising kids with religion, plenty of kids turn out fine, but there are also plenty that feel terribly harmed by the ordeal.

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I would watch that movie. I imagine it having the same vibe as Bound. Of course by Rule 34 a different sort of movie must already exist.

Kids time to practice your juggling. Yes, mommy’s night stand. No, don’t press the button. That makes it harder to juggle.

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You sweet summer child…That HVAC pipe photo resembles a woman’s crotch.

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You would have to be pretty goddamn hard up to look at that and immediately see vagina.

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Yeah, seriously, this is definitely weird, but the New York Post is a well-known trash tabloid and I guarantee they have massaged facts and quotes for maximum outrage. Frauenfelder should have known better than to send them traffic, even (especially) if he couldn’t find a reputable source. #DisappointedInBoingBoing

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I have no issue with adults using sex toys in their private lives, but the idea of actively having them around your kids so casually is just gross to me…

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I’d rather go and get drunk with Ro-Jaws and crew.

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" You would have to be pretty goddamn hard up to look at that and immediately see vagina."

You are right. But vagina is the tubey thing that goes inside the body and it’s invisible from the outside. Look it up.

That’s why I wrote “crotch”.

Also I’m female, so I know the anatomy.

Also I’m old and wise and recognize subtle or not-so-subtle hints. The HVAC pipes were easy to figure out, after reading the headline.

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Sorry, I should have been more clear. I know that Mark posted the image because it looks very vaguely like a woman’s external genitalia. However, most people who are not teenage boys do not actually look at ductwork and say “OH MY GOD THAT LOOKS JUST LIKE A PUSSY,” so your snark was unwarranted.

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This Ikea ad agrees with you.

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Not include Mek-Quake, I presume.

Depends where you’re going drinking.

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Now I know the real name of the guy who rented a motel room for his new sex doll. He didn’t have the lung power to blow it up, so he called the town cops in the belief they would have an air pump.

They did not. They had an old warrant, though, and took him to jail.

This Sex Robot Could Save Your Marriage … uh, wait:
This Sex Robot Could Save You From Marriage.

On a sidenote, this is not the state of things I expected in terms of Robosexuality and Cybersex in the year 2k+18. If they don’t speed up progress dramatically, the last issue for my generation will have to be some sort of Garden-Of-Delight Matrix.

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I agree, but the sex robot/doll phenomenon is seriously creepy. It seems to go beyond toy and into attempt to create a servile substitute for actual partnership. I have no issue if people do so, but whereas I have no problem with a committed partner of mine having toys, and have even gifted a few as tokens of affection, in no way would I be kosher with a committed partner of mine having a sex robot under any ordinary circumstances. Maybe in the extraordinary circumstance of being physically unable to have a sexual relationship, but even then I think I’d probably prefer an open relationship with an actual person.

All that said, I agree it pales in comparison to the creepiness of having it be a friggin’ nanny.

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