As If Sex Dolls Weren’t Enough Creepy, Now There is One That Talks

The newest in the evolution of sex dolls is Roxxxy. She can talk and has the ability to download different personalities.
via CNN.

To some men, she might seem like the perfect woman: She’s a willowy 5 feet 7 and 120 pounds. She’ll chat with you endlessly about your interests. And she’ll have sex whenever you please — as long as her battery doesn’t run out.
Meet Roxxxy, who may be the world’s most sophisticated talking female sex robot. For $7,000, she’s all yours.
“She doesn’t vacuum or cook, but she does almost everything else,” said her inventor, Douglas Hines, who unveiled Roxxxy last month at the Adult Entertainment Expo in Las Vegas, Nevada.

For some men, the perfect woman is one you can control, have sex with whenever you want and in a perfect world, vacuums and cooks. Those men are what we call misogynists.
And does anyone buy these dolls?

“Is this a viable product? Yes,” said Sherri Shaulis, an editor at Adult Video News, a trade magazine for the pornographic industry. “There’s a market for it. Granted, it’s a very small market.”
Maybe not. TrueCompanion claims that more than 4,000 men have placed pre-orders for Roxxxy robots, and another 20,000 or so have requested information about the product. TrueCompanion also is developing a male sex robot, named Rocky.

Now don’t get me wrong, I am all for artificial intelligence and all its potential explorations and I am all for sex toys and their progressions, but something about men pre-ordering talking sex robots just seems sad. My friend Mervyn just mentioned that these toys are generally created for people that don’t want to interact with people and I would probably go as far as to say, are unable to effectively interact with women. I feel bad for some of these guys lining up to buy talking sex robots and I think it is connected to the pressure and low self-esteem that people feel around effectively finding sexual partners. On the other hand, if your ideal woman is someone who talks about whatever you want her to and has sex whenever you want her to, then it is better you subject a robot to this treatment than a person. And what does it say about the perception of women’s sexuality as expendable and manufacture-able? Would there be a market for male sex robots?
Stephen Colbert has more to say about this than I.