Will Sexbots Replace Women and Lead to Immortality?

by Coleen Singer at Sssh.com Erotica For Women

First it was Fritz Lang’s “Metropolis” back in 1927 that showed the world a futuristic robotic woman that was destined to seduce all who gazed upon her.

This notion of the perfect woman was revisited around a half century later with Ira Levin’s “The Stepford Wives” in 1972. Fast forward another few decades to the present day, where novelist Patrick Quinlan imagines a dark, high-tech world that merges lifelike sex robots with human immortality and the corruption of big business.Inspired by breakthroughs in the areas of sex dolls, robotics and artificial intelligence, which will lead to super-realistic sex toys in the near future, Patrick Quinlan’s “Sexbot” is the latest of the author’s seven published novels, which include “Smoked,” which received much critical acclaim around the world — after having been translated into four languages.

He is also the co-author of movie star Rutger Hauer’s autobiography, “All Those Moments,” a Los Angeles Times bestseller, which Quinlan penned with Hauer. “Sexbot” is a sexy thriller about the inventor of a sex robot who is trapped inside of her own creation, raising a number of interesting factors that society will deal with in the future. “People want this,” Quinlan says. “There are men, in particular, that want women who are beautiful, agreeable, forever young, ever eager for sex, and who don’t have a lot to say. Imagine all the sex you want with none of the interpersonal mess. Companies out there are racing to bring it to you.

”According to the author’s publicist, “Sexbot” portrays a world where lifelike but largely motionless sex dolls such as the U.S. made Real Doll and the Japanese crafted Honey Doll, will soon be wed to advanced robot technologies such as the geminoid. “Throw in artificial intelligence that is already mimicking the way human eyes see and how people make decisions, along with voice technology that’s widely available, and you’ve got the ingredients for a very, very realistic sexbot,” the publicist notes.“The only thing holding it back right now is the companies that make the Real Doll and the Honey Doll have all the business they can handle,” Quinlan says. “They’re already making a fortune and have no incentive to look into robotics. Meanwhile, the cutting edge robotics scientists are getting paid by governments — governments want military applications, not sex dolls.

One day soon, someone very rich, probably a Russian oligarch, will decide he wants a realistic sexbot, and is willing to pay any amount of money to have one.”The novel tells the tale of Sexbot inventor Dr. Susan Jones, who has stumbled upon a method for downloading human awareness into intelligent machines. Recognizing the market value of immortality, Suncoast Cybernetics, the company that employs her, decides to murder her.

Spoiler Alert: Just before she’s killed, Dr. Jones successfully downloads herself into the most intelligent machine she has available — a ninth generation sexbot prototype. Now, Susan is “Number Nine,” dead but somehow alive, on the run from the company, and out to avenge her own murder.The Russian oligarch angle may not be so farfetched, as Dmitry Itskov’s 2045 Initiative reportedly seeks to download human awareness into robots, in effect, allowing humans to live forever, which in part was a source of inspiration for the novelist.“It’s an idea whose time has come,” Quinlan says. “Who knows if it’ll work, but they’re going to try. Humans want to live forever. We’re afraid of dying, so we want to stay here.

But it’s not for everybody. Very wealthy people will drive the search for immortality, and they’re the ones who will enjoy the benefits of it.”“Rich people will populate their homes with Sexbots and will live forever. Regular people will live their lives with talky flesh and blood sex partners, who complain, and aren’t in the mood tonight, and spend too much money, and grow old.

And after it’s all over, the regular folks will become dust and bones, just like they’ve always done.”Available now as an e-book for Kindle, Nook, and other reader platforms, “Sexbot” will be released as a paperback from Strawberry Books this fall. Women today have enough trouble keeping up with men’s expectations, so perfect sex robots may not be in our best interest, but until they come with a cooking module, at least some of our traditional roles will remain safe from competition.

About Coleen Singer:
Coleen Singer is a writer, photographer, film editor and all-around geeky gal at Sssh.com (@ssshforwomen), where she often waxes eloquent about Female Friendly Porn, sex, pleasure products, censorship, the literary and pandering evils of Fifty Shades of Grey and other topics not likely to be found on the Pulitzer Prize shortlist. She is also the editor and curator of EroticScribes.com. When she is not doing all of the above, Singer is an amateur stock-car racer and enjoys modifying vintage 1970s cars for the racetrack. Oh, she also likes porn.

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