Is the world ready for sex with robots? According to an artificial-intelligence theorist, the prospect of a mechanical friend with benefits is just around the corner. We now have a reason to prolong our lives to the year 2050.

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Your Robot Girlfriend will be a Sexpot.




So says artificial-intelligence expert and author David Levy, the prophetic writer of Love and Sex With Robots: The Evolution of Human-Robot Relationships. He says, “By and large, it will be very good for society, very beneficial, and I think that will be the majority view within a relatively short space of time.”

Engineering advances will allow robots to feel, smell, and act just like your girlfriend. You will not have to marry them unless you want to and they will never collect alimony. You can tell them not to go shopping for their perfect size 0 body, except to buy beer for the Super Bowl party when all of your friends come over. Oh, that game is on TV which you can decide to watch including the highlights show (while she is quietly cleaning).

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Your Robot Wife will be a Size 0.




Your electronic spouse will look good whether you are sober or drunk, and you can drink as much as you want guilt-free! And did I mention that you will never again need a rubber?

With all of the exciting perks comes a few minor moral dilemnas and public policy questions. For starters, will our future englightened society allow you to cohabitate with multiple robot wives and girlfriends? That may be a good question for Mitt Romney after the Iowa caucus. He is Mormon, don’t you know. Maybe our future leaders will put a Sharia law cap on all the hanky panky, say four robot wives per man.

And what is to be done with all of the out-of-work prostitutes? Should they be retrained with public disaster funds or left to make their own way in a more sexually satisfied world. Libertarian Ron Paul would clearly come down on the taxpayers’ side, but will Rudi Giuliani’s compassionate conservatism rule public policy in the future?

Why are our candidates not pressed to take a stand? What does Mike Huckabee think about doing it with a sex machine? Hillary Clinton already knows the answer. In fact, she could watch Bill collect the entire set. Would mixed-race robots help or hurt the racial divide? Ask Obama, not me.