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Well, porn is one big motivator of new technologies. Look what internet is mostly made up of.
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I agree. I worked for a company that developed hardware and software using autosteroscopy, VR, hands free, and haptics technologies. The products were focused on training for the military. We had several visitors from various companies interested in the technology. Interesting enough, most of them were from the porn industry.
When you are dead, you won't even know that you are dead. It's a pain only felt by others.
Same thing when you are stupid.
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Minitel, VHS (Over Beta Max) and the Internet all succeeded because of porn so yeah, nothing new here.
And whats going to make lifelike robotics succeed? Yep, sex dolls. And the Japs will be first with this, they already have a large industry making them.
Question is, will it be legal to have sex with a 2 year old robot even if it looks 16? 
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Munchies_Matt wrote: Question is, will it be legal to have sex with a 2 year old robot even if it looks 16?
The real question is... No, never mind  
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Sander Rossel wrote: The real question is...
Its a real legal pandora's box isnt it?
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It's not really sex, it's just a fancy masturbatory aid.
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Yet in many countries cartoon imagery of under 16s for sexual purposes is illegal. The UK is in this list, pretty sure most western countries are too.
So for those with particular tastes will robotics provide an answer? Its a legal minefield for sure.
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There was a case here a few years ago where I live where the police found child porn on some guy's computer but he couldn't be prosecuted since it was all animated. 
I think that robotic devices, however life-like, would be seen as nothing more than sophisticated vibrators and unit massagers.
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TheGreatAndPowerfulOz wrote: since it was all animated.
Is that a federal law pr state law that alllows this then? Of course by extension child like robots would also be legal. In the UK cartonns are not legal, so robotic children would also not be.
Of course you have to ask the question, if robots provide an outlet for their desires do they protect children so regardless of the questionable taste of the things should they be allowed (and the same goes therefore for animated child porn)?
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Munchies_Matt wrote: Is that a federal law pr state law that alllows this then?
I don't know...
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The US has some odd laws sometimes, at least odd to a European, where we expect tougher laws on decent behaviour.
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In this case, it's more of a case that the current law didn't cover that situation. The laws sometimes are too specific. But then again, that's a probably a good thing. Wouldn't want some bureaucrat suddenly deciding on a whim that something one has been doing for years without issue is suddenly illegal because some law is overbroad and the bureaucrat's knickers are stuck up his arse.
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You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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Odd, just looked it up and it is quite specific "any visual depiction of sexually explicit conduct involving a minor (someone under 18 years of age). Visual depictions include photographs, videos, digital or computer generated images indistinguishable from an actual minor, and images created, adapted, or modified, but appear to depict an identifiable, actual minor. " in not including cartoon images.
Weird. Perhaps its done to protect paintings such as this: Two Adolescents by Salvador Dali | Oil Painting Reproduction[^]
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My initial thought was "well, at least put them in private booths".
But then I thought again... No. Don't. Please don't...
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Well - it must be some sort of Asian cultural thing. It's the natural extension of This [^] (also from the Far East) and the obvious next generation is (KSS safe rules would be violated).
In-screw-table ?
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Hiroyasu Ando wrote: It's going to be possible to fall in love with a virtual girl.
Has he been living under a rock?
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"It's going to be possible to fall in love with a virtual girl."
It's sad how love has come to mean lust.
Marc
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Japan is very strange sometimes (at least by Western standards).
I know a few Japanese people from IPFW, and they think things like this are strange as well, so not everyone there is like that (thank goodness!).
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
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I do recall, quite some years ago, that THE most popular adult comic book featured The Rapeman - Wikipedia[^]
I like watching old B&W Samurai movies - but the days with the importance of 'honor' and such seem to becoming the very distant past, indeed.
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Link Fail.
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
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I'd need a bigger kitchen counter though.
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