1 out of 5 people say they would be willing to have sex with a robot

[davidn3600]

ATLANTA (CBS ATLANTA) – In a survey of changing attitudes between human beings and robots, nearly one-in-five people said they were “willing to have sex with an android,” despite more than one-third of respondents saying they fear machines will threaten the human race.

A poll conducted among 2,000 members of the British public by Middlesex University found out what humans think of one day walking, talking – and apparently progressing even further – with robots on a daily basis.

In addition to the 17 percent of people who said they are prepared to “have sex with an android,” more than one-in-ten claimed they would care for the fruits of such labor – with 11 percent saying they want a robot child similar to David in the movie A.I.

One of the study recipients said that science seems to have gotten the edge on sex: “It seems to have got to the stage where people would rather have sex with something that knows exactly what it’s doing, where we know exactly how it will react, and how long it will take, and how good it will be,” said one of the participants, according to the Daily Beast, which notes that people’s “self-reliance” may have equipped people to seek such far-fetched sexual independence from other humans.

http://atlanta.cbslocal.com/2014/05/08/poll-1-in-5-people-would-have-sex-with-android-10-percent-want-robot-child/

[Silent3]

1. Is married sex after a few years much different?

[The Straight Story]

2. Oh great, now I have to hold open doors for robots too???

[DJ13]

3. That Energizer Bunny would wear me out

[mindwalker_i]

10. DUzy!

Ok little dude, you're up.

[nationalize the fed]

4. In another poll, 4 out of 5 admit to *being* robots

We're all f&cked

[AleksS]

5. And in other news,

And in other news, five out of five men asked where they could get their sexbots...

[sakabatou]

6. Those damn robosexuals!

[struggle4progress]

7. And "Nearly one-fifth of pet owners said they would replace a cherished animal with a robot"

Summary: One out of every five people is not particularly discriminating in choice of sexual partner -- robot, blow-up doll, house pet, favorite potato, whatever

[MohRokTah]

8. 1 in 20 people are already having sex with a robot.

I'd give some links, but they'd all be NSFW.

[Agschmid]

9. Just keep those to yourself please...

[NightWatcher]

39. Wet Dry Shopvacs are not robots!

[nomorenomore08]

47. You mean the "fucking machines" as it were? Those are just motorized sex toys...

[NBachers]

11. This reminds me of The Twilight Zone episode, "The Lonely."

[Eleanors38]

21. Great episode. Our family saw that in '59 in the ol' B&W...

stopped us in our tracks. One of the best under 30 min dramas ever made. So many issues covered so well.

[NBachers]

37. Yes, I saw that original broadcast episode back in '59 myself

[Shandris]

12. Well, we've been told for a while now that even though all available evidence seems to indicate that

the human race is growing more and more distant and detached from other, it's all a lie and the world is closer than ever...so clearly this can only portend good things.

[NV Whino]

13. I don't find that strange

One in five people have sex with tail pipes or patio tables.

[WillowTree]

14. I'm pretty sure......

......I already did once or twice over the years, though I didn't know they were sexual robots until it was too late to do anything about it.

[bunnies]

15. Holy shit! I never realized my EX was so popular!

[badtoworse]

16. Sounds like the Orgasmitron

[Yavin4]

17. Just imagine the viruses that a sex robot running a Windows OS is going to have.

Oy vey!

[Orrex]

18. Not to mention how smugly self-congratulating an Apple sexbot will be.

[hunter]

19. Oh horrors!

Can you imagine a room full of Apple fanatics and their sPods?

[lumberjack_jeff]

29. Linux users will insist that the robots third eye and painful shocks are a feature, not a bug. n/t

[EX500rider]

20. Can I see a picture of the robot 1st? lol

[Eleanors38]

22. I prefer a desktop version.

[snooper2]

26. you are going to objectify the robot! Patriarchy strikes robotland!

[Crunchy Frog]

23. That's the only way I'm going to be getting any.

[MineralMan]

24. Not surprising, really. A lot of people are already

using machines to enhance their sexual experiences. You can buy them in every mail order catalog and in most large drugstore chains. They're not robots, exactly, since they are completely controlled by the person using them, except in the case of a few remote-controlled ones, and can be used in anyone's favorite way to produce reliable orgasms.

Cheap, convenient and very effective, they pretty much remove the need for actual robots. I don't see sex robots offering much of an improvement over user-controlled machines, frankly, unless they're multi-purpose robots that would do a lot of other useful things.

[TeeYiYi]

25. The other 4 admit to already having sex with robots. ..nt

TYY

[tridim]

27. DON'T DATE ROBOTS!

...and that leads to.. Tragedy.

http://vimeo.com/12915013

[3catwoman3]

28. I'd rather have...

..a Star Trek food replicator.

[lumberjack_jeff]

30. Lol!

[NobodyHere]

33. I don't care what anyone says

I still want my Marylin Monroe bot.

[GreatCaesarsGhost]

31. Oy, Robot!

[mainer]

32. Listen to Howard Wolowitz

You don't want to have sex with a robot.

[justhanginon]

34. Damn, I was that close, that close

and then there it was, the Blue Screen of Death!!!!!!!!!!

[pipi_k]

35. Yeah, so much for

the humans...

But the real question is, would the robots be willing to have sex with THEM...


I would hope the robots are a lot smarter than that.

[StevieM]

36. Remember the Holodeck on Star Trek: TNG? I would be interested in having sex with a hologram. (eom)

[FarCenter]

38. "Can machines fuck?" -- A new version of the Turing Test

The test was introduced by Alan Turing in his 1950 paper "Computing Machinery and Intelligence," which opens with the words: "I propose to consider the question, 'Can machines think?'"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turing_test

[Initech]

40. Have we seriously learned nothing from Futurama?

[yawnmaster]

41. would it be a very simple robot or more of a basic pleasure model?

I think if it is the later, it might win more of the over 80% who hate robots.

[Ino]

42. Data!

[edbermac]

43. "Just what do you think you're doing, Dave?"

"Dave, I really think that I'm entitled to an answer to that question."

[Initech]

45. "Dave, that hole does not do what you think it does!"

[jmowreader]

44. And this differs from having sex with a Republican in what way?

[Initech]

46. Well true, Mitt Romney is a robot!