Submitted 1 year ago by cyu@sh.itjust.works to technology@lemmy.world
https://goodinternet.substack.com/p/the-warping-void-of-ai-sextbots
Terrible article, the author stokes a completely basesless moral panic.
Porn has been the go-to scapegoat for every societal ill since time immemorial, and this is just the latest iteration of the constant fretting about it.
And the article he quotes is even more ridiculous. Now fantasy girlfriends are an existential threat to women? If a man wrote about how he has to compete with romance novels and sex toys he would be derided as a fragile loser.
I am bored with this type of discourse.
Now fantasy girlfriends are an existential threat to women?
They are suggesting the opposite, that women are using this technology more than men. Like the title says: the majority of actual users of these sexbots seem to be female
I mean, porn and imagined girlfriends are a problem. A bit like alcohol, sweets, and in general addictive things.
They, eh, allow one to alleviate loneliness and sadness, but not really.
Now fantasy girlfriends are an existential threat to women? If a man wrote about how he has to compete with romance novels and sex toys he would be derided as a fragile loser.
They are a threat to women in that they supposedly make men a bit more likely to become fragile losers. In perception at least, I think in reality such men would become alcoholics or something else instead, or would just develop their imagination.
That’s just Puritanical hogwash though, the same crowd of voices come out with the same baseless assumptions and stretched one-sided logic about everything.
When video games came out the puritans all said violent video games would ruin the world but violence has continued to decrease YOY, studies show that they can actually help people regulate their temper and foster better emotional intelligence. Learning to handle stressful situations is something modern culture took out of our lives and video games created a safe way to replace, our brains need practice at identifying anger and frustration and channeling then correctly.
AI sex partners are likely a very similar thing, by allowing safe exploration and somewhere to develop experience and confidence communicating it’s very likely helping a lot of people establish the skills needed to find and flourish in a healthy human relationship.
Really though they’re just a bit of silly fun which doesn’t hurt anyone, if someone can read Jane Austen and Julie Cooper without turning into a rabid fiend then they can have a cumbersome duty conversion with a LLM. Women aren’t going to become self-pleasure addicted recluses because of sex bots if they weren’t already that way due to the Sims and late night adult only discord chat rooms.
Of course people who spend their whole lives fighting themselves because of some twisted puritanical claptrap they’ve had rammed down their throats are likely to fly off the rails at any moment, if you don’t come to understand yourself and your biological impulses then you’ll never be able to control yourself - most people aren’t using AI sex bots to shamefully fill a void they dare not comprehend, they’re not experiencing a genuinely non-judgemental conversation for the first time, they’re not racked with sadness because their life of avoiding joy has left them cold and isolated.
The fact puritans are scared of literally everyone fun only speaks of the puritan mentality and says nothing of the value of video games, porn, AI sex robots, or any of the other things they rally against.
(And yes I have a deep sadness and recognise many do, messing around with fun distractions to that is just the human condition and the driving force of many great developments)
It’s worth making a distinction between something inherently damaging like alcohol, and something that most people can engage with in moderation and face no issues, like sugar or porn.
Porn nowadays is much more extreme compared to the past
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Okay but where I do get an ai sexbot? I’m asking for me.
www.Janitorai.com
Who else is on there already 😇
mines deviantfemboi and my wife is absolutetrash.
Just read this comment over and over: UwU you so hot, wanna have the sechs?
That should do it.
Aside from the ones mentioned in the article that are purely text based, there’s also VR ones now lmao
VaM or Virt-a-Mate with the VaMX plugin will do that. Very powerful PC required tho. Still a big work in progress.
“seem to be female”
Me thinks this be the catch.
I can’t see myself having that problem if you truly love someone.
It’s also fun when your stroga accidentally noffs and a beef is born.
I’m not surprised. My gf has stories of ex boyfriends and flings that had 0 idea where the clitoris is and that woman can actually have orgasms. It’s only a myth to selfish men and stupid, religious people. It’s fucking wild.
Didn’t read the article, did you.
Interesting read. But this blog really needs someone to go over it and correct really simple mistakes (i instead of I etc)
yokonzo@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I could see it, aren’t women the biggest consumers of literary porn? Someone correct me if I’m wrong but every girl I know loves her smut and will fight you about it
bob_wiley@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Siegfried@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Exactly my point: when a woman buys a vibrator it seems like she just wants some fun. BUT when a man buys the 240 Volt FUCKMASTER Pro 5000 inflatable doll with non-explosive rubber coating, 6x adjustable speed vibrating vagina, rubbery sperm-proof ass and realistic orgasmic scream with optional built-in 7.1 sound system, he becomes PERVERT… why?
LoafyLemon@kbin.social 1 year ago
There are literal adverts on TV showing various sex toys for women to use; I am yet to see one catered towards male viewership.
(Not that I would want or need to see one lol)
LavaPlanet@lemmy.world 1 year ago
It’s just not as easy, for the female anatomy to get there with hand alone, really. So there’s not much option but to choose help from an external source. Do you really think people think it’s ok for women but not men to buy sex toys?
phx@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
I’d hazard to say that they’re probably the larger consumer of electronic sex toys as well