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    At last, a sex robot that ‘wants’ you. How sad that anyone would want it | Suzanne Moore

    In this exciting future of automated pleasure, I see only male fantasy made fake flesh
    by Suzanne Moore Jun 27, 2018 3 minutes
    ‘A new breed of techie libertarian is promoting the idea that manufacturing artificial women to masturbate into is somehow out there on the radical cusp of philosophy about transhumanism.’ Photograph: Guardian

    Can you rape a robot – a robot you have specifically bought to have sex with? You can certainly overdo things, let’s put it that way. When I say “you”, I don’t mean you: I mean the men who make, possess and “interact” with these machines. “Samantha”, a sex robot developed by the electronic engineer Sergi Santos, was badly treated at an Electronica Fair in Austria last year. According to with “Two fingers broken. Heavily soiled”.

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