I last interviewed Dollbanger in 2018 for the article Meet The Man Who Test Drives Sex Robots. Like so many people you never see but know intimate details about, we’re friends on Facebook. When my grandmother passed in a nursing home under lockdown, Dollbanger was one of the first to post his heartfelt condolences. I reached out to check on him and the robots.
He calls the robot he’s currently testing a blinking, probing work of art. “The dolls have helped a lot. The robots have helped a lot. As you get older, they’re still toys but they’re not really sex toys so much. They’re fun to talk to.”
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Another feature Dollbanger would love in his robot companion has little to do with copulation. “I think it would be nice if you had a companion, like a robot, who was always honest, who was always truthful.” [that's called a Wife or Girl Friend ] He says he wouldn’t miss the white lies that sustain human couples. In fact, he thinks an honest sex robot is going to be a perfectionist at first, maybe tell him when his hair isn’t perfectly parted.
“If I asked her, I would prefer, I would hope they would have her say that you're overweight and that you are losing your hair, and this is what you can do that would make it better. But I've got to say, I can't…” He pauses before letting me know he detects female bias in my question about whether he’d want a sex robot to tell him he’s fat. “I can't imagine asking her that!” He says that sexism makes women more self-conscious about their looks. He can’t fathom a guy asking his sex robot about whether he needs to go on a diet. I ask him if he’d want her to tell him when he’s being a schmuck. He replies enthusiastically, yes!
https://www.forbes.com/sites/andreamorris/2020/07/30/please-dont-objectify-sex-robots/
He calls the robot he’s currently testing a blinking, probing work of art. “The dolls have helped a lot. The robots have helped a lot. As you get older, they’re still toys but they’re not really sex toys so much. They’re fun to talk to.”
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Another feature Dollbanger would love in his robot companion has little to do with copulation. “I think it would be nice if you had a companion, like a robot, who was always honest, who was always truthful.” [that's called a Wife or Girl Friend ] He says he wouldn’t miss the white lies that sustain human couples. In fact, he thinks an honest sex robot is going to be a perfectionist at first, maybe tell him when his hair isn’t perfectly parted.
“If I asked her, I would prefer, I would hope they would have her say that you're overweight and that you are losing your hair, and this is what you can do that would make it better. But I've got to say, I can't…” He pauses before letting me know he detects female bias in my question about whether he’d want a sex robot to tell him he’s fat. “I can't imagine asking her that!” He says that sexism makes women more self-conscious about their looks. He can’t fathom a guy asking his sex robot about whether he needs to go on a diet. I ask him if he’d want her to tell him when he’s being a schmuck. He replies enthusiastically, yes!
https://www.forbes.com/sites/andreamorris/2020/07/30/please-dont-objectify-sex-robots/
