{"id":37836,"date":"2019-02-08T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-02-08T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=37836"},"modified":"2019-11-17T11:40:38","modified_gmt":"2019-11-17T16:40:38","slug":"qotd-sex-toys-and-sexbots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2019\/02\/08\/qotd-sex-toys-and-sexbots\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: Sex toys and sexbots"},"content":{"rendered":"

The global market in these abominations is currently valued at more than \u00a312 billion, and that\u2019s not counting the monstrous regiment of aforementioned sex dolls, the \u2018high end\u2019 of which began in Japan in the 1980s. Also coming soon will be sex robots, beginning with a robot \u2018Fellatio Caf\u00e9\u2019 in Paddington, due to open later this year. Even though I describe myself as a feminist, I can\u2019t wait to mock the self-appointed spokeswomen for my gender slamming this set-up after years of bigging up broads bringing themselves off using battery-operated devices. As the rather rabid David Mills, an atheist activist and admirer of sex dolls, ranted to Vanity Fair<\/em>: \u2018Women have enjoyed sex toys for 50 years, probably 5,000 years, if the truth be known, but men are still stigmatised! We have to correct that! I want to be the Rosa Parks of sex dolls! Men are not going to sit in the back of the bus any more!\u2019<\/p>\n

Indeed, you could argue that a blowjob from a humanoid sexbot is far more indicative of a healthy desire to be connected to humanity than a quick once-over with a gilded pebble or a faceless phallus. But that won\u2019t stop the lady columnists from penning predictable screeds about the woeful immaturity of men, and their willingness to risk having their tackle snagged in a faulty man-trap rather than \u2018commit\u2019 to a living, breathing female.<\/p>\n

So can I (for once) put my head above the parapet and say that I totally get the appeal of sexbots in the current climate? Sex is, generally, a rather basic thing. Yet somewhere along the line some women have adopted the notion that it should be akin to a trip to Disneyland on gossamer wings for a playdate with Barbie and her pet unicorn. Some women seem to think sex should be about communicating, sharing, scented candles, two-hour massages, three-hour role play, kissing, cuddling and then\u2026 that other thing, if you must\u2026 whereas men generally tend to believe that sex is about having sex, the rotters. So can you blame them for wanting to keep it short and simple with a sexbot? And if it\u2019s OK for women to pleasure themselves with friends electric, why not men?<\/p>\n

Julie Burchill, “The other sexual double-standard: Why is self-love for women so cool and feminist? For men it\u2019s seen as sad and sleazy”, The Spectator<\/em><\/a>, 2017-03-23.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The global market in these abominations is currently valued at more than \u00a312 billion, and that\u2019s not counting the monstrous regiment of aforementioned sex dolls, the \u2018high end\u2019 of which began in Japan in the 1980s. Also coming soon will be sex robots, beginning with a robot \u2018Fellatio Caf\u00e9\u2019 in Paddington, due to open later […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,66,41],"tags":[198,987,174,1320,255],"class_list":["post-37836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-britain","category-health-science","category-quotations","tag-equalrights","tag-feminism","tag-innovation","tag-sexdolls","tag-sexuality"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-9Qg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37836","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37836"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37836\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52819,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37836\/revisions\/52819"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}