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The Case for Sex Robots

Build For Tomorrow

CHAPTER

I Dated a Robot

The way they'regoin to break us is they're just going to get us used to the easy solution. Because humans naturally gravitate towards what's easiest. This idea is played out to the extreme in an old episode of futurama called i dated a robot. It features a parody of these school propaganda films, you know, like griefor madness. And this one opens up by explaining that the purpose of human courtship is to make babies. But when a yeoman dates an artificial mate, there is no purpose, only enjoyment. Soon every human has a robot, and no humans are having sex with humans. Is the end of humanity?

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