Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Friday, 15 February 2008 11:34
Opinion and Analysis
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Levy's book also "examines the needs we seek to fulfill through sexual relationships, tracking the development of life-sized dolls, machines, and other sexual devices, and demonstrating how society's ideas about what constitutes normal sex have changed—and will continue to change—as sexual technology becomes increasingly sophisticated”.
The line on the last page of Levy’s book promises “Great sex on tap for everyone, 24/7”, but the question is, who would want to use the service?
Levy says that many lonely people – men and women – could well jump at the chance to experience some electronic intimacy.
He told the
Houston Chronicle that these people could well be lonely and miserable. He said: “I think society will be a much better place when they have an alternative that satisfies them without doing any harm to other people. But by and large, it will be very good for society, very beneficial, and I think that will be the majority view within a relatively short space of time."
Canada.com quotes Levy saying in his book that "Love with robots will be as normal as love with other humans. While the number of sexual acts and lovemaking positions commonly practised between humans will be extended, as robots teach us more than is in all of the world's published sex manuals combined. Love and sex with robots on a grand scale are inevitable."
Quoting again from the
Houston Chronicle, Levy says that the Japanese are already working on love robots, quoting Levy saying that: "I think the Japanese are probably working on this more than one would realize from the little that's been published so far”, while the
Associated Press says a Japanese company Axis already produces the world’s first sex robots called ‘Honeydolls’, for men, is already on sale for US $7000.
Does this mean the end of the human sex worker? Please read onto page 3.
