It got me thinking, though. What would a genuinely attractive sex toy be like? One of the most disturbing things on the site was an animated GIF demonstrating the texture of the breasts, something like two sacs of cold, congealed chicken fat. Obviously, the first thing necessary is a heating unit, with a pump to circulate some sort of heat exchange fluid (perhaps ethylene glycol based) to warm the extremities. Now we're making progress! From dead to comatose with one simple modification!
Next, let us take up the delicate matter of hygiene. It would be ideal if this device could be somehow self-cleaning. It is currently fashioned out of silicone polymers selected for biological non-reactivity, but perhaps more advanced materials, carbon-based protein chains for example, could be used, having an active rather than a passive role in rejecting pathogens. Too, we would gain the valuable psychological advantage of cutting down on the rather disenchanting matter of what one can only call maintenance. It may even be possible to have this material "secrete" natural-seeming lubricating substances in the orifices of interest.
Next, the sheer physical inertness of the thing is bothersome. It has a fairly complex articulated armature, but no capability for originating movement, especially those surprising, unexpected little movements which are such an enormous improvement on masturbation. It would be necessary to install a complex sensor-effector system, roughly corresponding to the central nervous system and musculature of an actual person. This, unfortunately, is well beyond the current state of the art. I am sufficiently familiar with CNC machines to know that I would never wish any portion of my anatomy gripped by any known machine. But here, we're designing the ideal, not the real, and it may not always be impossible. I freely admit that I am blithely assuming that the most complex problem known is proximately solvable, and that the solution could be implemented. It's easy for me, since I don't have the $6000 that the original doll costs either.
But here lurks a dire psychological danger. With all these advanced features, wouldn't it be almost irresistable to think of this device, in the reactive rather than the defining mind, as a person? Considering that some men manage to project some sort of personality into something that really is just a vinyl cushion with a complicated shape, it seems inevitable. Perhaps it would have been better to have never started down this road. But now that we're here, we may as well step off the final length. As easy as it is to forget sometimes, there is more to life than sex, yes, even for men. How could we make this device into more than an appliance, a true companion?
Several things are necessary. Literally mindless compliance with every wish a man may have is gratifying in the short term, but eventually leads only to uncorrected error and self-loathing. Clearly, compliance modified by calculated "prudence" (anthropomorphisms are probably unavoidable at this point, without a lot of irritating semantic tapdancing) and "whim" are necessary, to give the man an externality he plainly lacks. Ego support is also necessary. I suspect that a man humping a piece of plastic might need a great deal of that, as well as tact. But by far the most demanding requirement of this device would be that, for social interactions, it must be able to pass as human. Imagine taking a silicone doll to a movie. Unless the man has the chutzpah to pass it off as a joke - and I would guess that, as a class, these men do not - how unspeakably grotesque and pathetic!
This broad, offhand sketch probably leaves out far more than it includes, but still gives some flavor of the impossible idea. Where could one possibly find something like this?
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