There’s not a day that passes that we don’t have a new reason to suspect humanity is dying off. Scientists have warned of the ‘sixth extinction‘ for decades, but now there is at least one man who believes an ostensibly beneficial innovation — sex robots — could lead to the human race getting screwed.
This is not a Terminator scenario. If humans begin spending the majority of their intimate hours with sex androids, they will reduce both the energy and biological resources needed to perpetuate the human race. At the Second International Congress on Love and Sex with Robots, Swiss researcher Oliver Bendel issued the following, fairly simple, warning:
“If the machine over-exerts the human, it reduces the possibility of human sex.”
At first glance, this seems to be almost a tongue-in-cheek reference to loving your new toy just a little too much. However, there is actually some meat to the theory. If robots satisfy all of our sexual demands, we will be less reliant on physical intimacy with other humans.
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