Sex/Relationships with robots? Options

[impala454]

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21271545/wid/11915829?GT1=10450

"My forecast is that around 2050, the state of Massachusetts will be the first jurisdiction to legalize marriages with robots," artificial intelligence researcher David Levy at the University of Maastricht in the Netherlands told LiveScience. Levy recently completed his Ph.D. work on the subject of human-robot relationships, covering many of the privileges and practices that generally come with marriage as well as outside of it.

At first, sex with robots might be considered geeky, "but once you have a story like 'I had sex with a robot, and it was great!' appear someplace like Cosmo magazine, I'd expect many people to jump on the bandwagon," Levy said.
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In 2006, Henrik Christensen, founder of the European Robotics Research Network, predicted that people will be having sex with robots within five years, and Levy thinks that's quite likely. There are companies that already sell realistic sex dolls, "and it's just a matter of adding some electronics to them to add some vibration," he said, or endowing the robots with a few audio responses. "That's fairly primitive in terms of robotics, but the technology is already there."

this friggin scares me

[cupcake]

what about people who have an easier time being alone than with others?

what about those who have charlie brown luck when it comes to choosing partners/mates and have grown so apathetic that it would be easier for them to have a robot?

I agree they may be anomalies, but I don't discount this altogether...