RE: Germany's Robotic Brothel & An Inventor Who Claims He WIll Have 'Children' With His Sex Doll. Heartless People Revealed...
Thank you, @ura-soul, for yet another interesting topic.
I'll be pushing back on this a little. ^_^
I am going to skim over the point about how some people find it more than acceptable to get sexually involved with a non-living artificial construct.
Rather I'll head straight into the more prickly topic of these constructs being used to replace women - by having them serve roles that men sometimes associate with women (and some women associate with themselves).
Where I'd like to point out here is that certain roles have steadily been separated from the identity of women - whether due to some variant of feminist doctrine or due some other force resulting in the increased recognition that gender-specific casting of such roles is, shall we say, problematic and disrespectful.
From a practical standpoint, where the 'supply' of a 'workforce' is limited or is no longer able or willing to cater to demand, then market logic suggests that the vacuum will be filled.
While there does exist potential for misteps in gender trust, I for one would much rather see a safe chanel established where robots serve such clients rather than such clients being at a loss as to where to fulfill their demands. I personally think that such is where the greatest risk of acts occuring with living creatures that are either themselves unacceptable - or done in unacceptable circumstances.
Yes resorting to a construct facilitates objectification - but I personally feel that the value of such individuals permitting their true natures to surface in a safer sandbox-like environment serves the best opportunity for addressing them before any true harm is done.
Once again - thank you for choosing to address such topics that some wouldn't touch wit h a ten-foot pole. :c)
Thanks for your detailed reply here.
While I didn't address the topic of whether human prostitution is appropriate or not - for me, it falls into the same category of dysfunction and it has it's own set of pitfalls that are different, yet similar to the robotic version. My position here is based on understandings of the energetic reality of sex which invokes both sexual energies and also a merging of the energy fields of those involved. In the case of prostitution, the women (or men) involved will be unconsciously sharing and absorbing both emotions and energetic imprints from their clients and so it is far from being 'just another job'. Sexuality is not a 'market' any more than baby production is a market and yet both of these have become markets due to the heartlessness that is epidemic on Earth.
What is not being said here is that the 'demand' for prostitutes is often assumed to be due to some kind of sexual need in men that simply cannot be satisfied without prostitutes and that without them (or robots) then there would be a huge increase in rapes and other, more dangerous overpowering of will. While that may be true in some cases, it does not change the reality that in ALL cases a path of healing exists whereby those involved can cease their dysfunctional behavior and actually feel good with a member of the opposite gender. To do this means working through and healing numerous psychological and emotional issues within the people involved, but the outcome will be massively beneficial and will improve numerous aspects of their lives. Compromising and just shrugging shoulders as if "there's just no alternative but to fuck a robot" is not the way to create beneficial change here. What kind of dysfunctions are we blindly accepting here if we choose to compromise and just say "well, it's the best we can do!" - are we really so ignorant that we cannot find a better solution?
I already know that the better solutions exist and to begin it all only takes a willingness for those involved to focus on being heart centered and actively intending to heal, balance and evolve. There's no 'business plan' or 'cash flow projection' with being heart centered though - and therein lies part of the reason why we are being conditioned to think of sex robots as solutions instead of real heart and real feelings.
Thank you for the very elaborate reply @ura-soul.
You do make a number of really good points - and I understand what you have said and the context within which you have said it.
One thing that I notice is that you do not see the use of robots in this context to be any kind of a solution. While I understand your argument that we should address the underlying causes of the 'dysfunctional behaviors' of those inclined to do so - I am not convinced that discarding robots as an acceptable means to do so is a correct path.
Perhaps this is because when I say this I do not just think of regular people looking for a booty call - but rather I also think of persons who feel that something is missing from their lives and/or who have been through a phase involving physical or mental abuse to their persons - and for whom the prospect of finding a 'traditional' mate doesn't hold the allure that it would for other persons. Some among these who might otherwise bottle up their needs either indefinitely or until they can no longer do so - the alternative of a robotic substitute might be an outlet for them that does not cause harm to other members of Society.
Furthermore, when I think of how adoption of these robotic substitutes would technically take the place of what would otherwise have been living beings, I personally see that to be more of a positive than a negative. We already use technology to assist us educationally and there is no reason why robots within this field couldn't be applied similarly.
This being said, you are again correct in suggesting that some things shouldn't be markets - and that includes living creatures and babies.
Although - now that I think about it - considering that human populations have exploded by 6 billion over the last 100 years alone - perhaps it wouldn't be a terrible thing for more humans to settle for infertile robotic counterparts.