Delta Man: Rise of the bots

Retrenched asked “If sexbots ever become available it will be interesting to see how they affect the average delta guys…?”

 

You can’t answer that question meaningfully by isolating the sexbots (and VR) from the culture at large. They are ultimately an extension of the sexual revolution and pornography in a new more powerful form. Our culture is pornographic at a low level all of the time. We see it on the magazines in the checkout line, advertising, and nearly every show with the “base line” moving upward every year. Sexbots and VR will be incorporated into society and be accepted at by many people as other sexual toys and pornography are accepted now. 

So I'd suspect that Deltas will make use of them, but to a lesser degree than Gammas and Omegas, with the highest use being Gammas. The wide spread use of them will likely create even more Gammas as actually meeting and copulating with a real, live, woman is a powerful incentive to leave Gammahood. Once this incentive is removed there will be little motivation to ever leave the house to actually meet a woman.

I think VR has a much greater chance of acceptance and be more of a temptation as one will be able to upgrade the system much easier and change out the women at will rather than a large, expensive, robot-doll to replace and maintain. The most expensive systems will probably incorporate both to some degree until fully automated robots are affordable. I'm sure there are people already working on some sort of VR and device combination right now, if it doesn't already exist. (I have no interesting in googling that.)

So what does this mean for Game, and even society at large? Gammas who can afford it will completely check out of dating, probably permanently, never reproduce, socialize outside of their male friends, and bother with women at all. The precedent is already there with the herbivores in Japan, and hundreds of thousands of single men currently spend their weekends in games, watching sports, and porn. Single Deltas who struggle with women will probably use VR/bots like they do porn now, which isn't healthy and doesn't help them any.

This will have a deleterious effect on women as well, and millions who currently getting some attention from men will suddenly get little to no attention at all. There will be a lot of outrage and moves to ban the bots will be made, but it won't work. The demand for them will be too high. Don't think men will be alone in using them, especially VR, as 1/3 of all porn viewers right now are women. I suspect there will be a variant for them. I suppose with some dark humor I can chuckle at the thought of all of the porn stars who will be out of work as the 3D models and bots will take their place. 

The outcome of this will be lonely people unable to make real connections with other human beings while spending their lives in childless self absorption. Push back will come from devout, traditional Christians and other religious groups, but it's a grim future of millions of people living sitting in a darkened room with a robot or a VR helmet on while masturbating.

I see there are several sexbots stories popping up and I am highly amused at the two complaints made by the same groups of busy bodies: 1) Sexbots will hurt women 2) Thank goodness the men who will use them will leave real women alone.

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