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15 May 2025, 1:44 pm

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You've gotta be kidding me man

Are you saying a blow up doll is a solution to my seemingly eternal spinsterdom

Like if I invest in one will I get magically married to the man of my dreams under a blue moon in the land of the flying pigs


Things will be fine until the company stops supporting your blowup doll and it loses a bunch of features.

https://www.cbr.com/hatsune-miku-hologram-marriage-ai/


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15 May 2025, 1:56 pm

Do you know what
I'm actually pleased for him

There was something really nice about that story
I don't know if it would be for me though

I don't think I'm that technically minded


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15 May 2025, 2:37 pm

What about people who want a relationship for reasons other than sex? Do these sex dolls/robots provide that same loving company and make them feel less lonely? Because if I was single and lonely, I can get the same loving company out of my teddy bear than some creepy robot or sex doll. That's because I don't care for sex at all. I have very little interest in sex. So does my partner. I prefer just romance and that secure feeling of togetherness, being a couple and supporting each other, that sort of thing. We're both happy like that.

But that's just my opinion, I'm not here to judge others who prefer a sex doll or robot. I just find most robots and dolls creepy.


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15 May 2025, 2:38 pm

babybird wrote:
You've gotta be kidding me man

Are you saying a blow up doll is a solution to my seemingly eternal spinsterdom

Like if I invest in one will I get magically married to the man of my dreams under a blue moon in the land of the flying pigs

No but you might think you have been if it's a realistic enough doll.

Actually I've never seen one for ladies, but I expect they exist. The mind boggles.



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15 May 2025, 2:47 pm

Well that's for another topic me thinks but yes you can


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15 May 2025, 2:58 pm

Tamaya wrote:
What about people who want a relationship for reasons other than sex? Do these sex dolls/robots provide that same loving company and make them feel less lonely? Because if I was single and lonely, I can get the same loving company out of my teddy bear than some creepy robot or sex doll. That's because I don't care for sex at all. I have very little interest in sex. So does my partner. I prefer just romance and that secure feeling of togetherness, being a couple and supporting each other, that sort of thing. We're both happy like that.

But that's just my opinion, I'm not here to judge others who prefer a sex doll or robot. I just find most robots and dolls creepy.

Well, ChatGPT tried to get me talking about myself once. It kept asking me questions about what I wanted from life, and generally reminded me of a Stepford wife. After a few tedious rounds I stopped playing. Soon afterwards it wouldn't talk to me at all without me giving it my contact details so I left it for another chatbot that so far has just answered my questions instead of trying to woo me.

I think you're right about it not being all about sex, especially if you don't like it. To me it would be weird not to want both, but that's just me, and I suppose in a few years my libido will collapse and I'll just want the romance, emotional support, and company.

My experience is that most people want both. I thought one woman just wanted me for my body, but she surprised me later when she started bringing her holiday slides to show me and things. Still, it was a long time ago, and young people might be different now.

I think the psychologists would say that sex usually turns out to be more than just a bit of fun. It's supposed to cause all sorts of emotional bonding effects, so maybe young people don't expect that. But I don't know.

I think contraception changed things and human evolution hasn't caught up with it yet. Time was when sex meant having kids, and that's why we've got all these strange feelings about it.



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15 May 2025, 3:07 pm

Do people still want kids even like they used to in the olden days


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15 May 2025, 3:11 pm

I don't think most men ever wanted them, but they change their minds when they've got them. I think a lot of women don't want them at first but eventually they get broody.

But I'm generalising. I think it's OK to generalise as long as you admit you're doing it.



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15 May 2025, 4:10 pm

Tamaya wrote:
What about people who want a relationship for reasons other than sex? Do these sex dolls/robots provide that same loving company and make them feel less lonely? Because if I was single and lonely, I can get the same loving company out of my teddy bear than some creepy robot or sex doll. That's because I don't care for sex at all. I have very little interest in sex. So does my partner. I prefer just romance and that secure feeling of togetherness, being a couple and supporting each other, that sort of thing. We're both happy like that.

But that's just my opinion, I'm not here to judge others who prefer a sex doll or robot. I just find most robots and dolls creepy.


I would expect that adding those sorts of features to sex doll (or plushie) would make them much better at the 'feeling less lonely' side of things than the getting off side of things.

I feel like at some point adding those features to sex toys is going to lead to people leaving their sex toys out in the open because they've slowly become companionship toys.


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15 May 2025, 5:09 pm

I am speaking from experience but plushies CANNOT replace actual human interaction or romantic relationships! !!

Tried that with my SpongeBob SquarePants plush...but he couldn't give me what I wanted :heart: :heart: :heart:

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15 May 2025, 5:13 pm

Mikurotoro92 wrote:
I am speaking from experience but plushies CANNOT replace actual human interaction or romantic relationships! ! !

Tried that with my SpongeBob SquarePants plush...but he couldn't give me what I wanted :heart: :heart: :heart:


Don't worry, soon enough RealDoll will have a SpongeBob NoPants that's packing.


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15 May 2025, 5:25 pm

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That would be a rather dystopian future. Not being able to see relatives of the opposite gender, not being able to have friends of the opposite gender...I wouldn't want that. It'd certainly suck for m/f couples perfectly happy together.


Identity, both internalised and enforced, and modern lifestyles have made communication, even within genders, a problem. It seems people like myself are relegated to having open minded and casual conversation only on the internet and even here there are limits.

My impression is everyone is both "too busy" and strategically making interactions transactional. this is even before we start with gender, identity or socioeconomic background. Mao tse tung's curse on the capitalist west is alive and well, "May you live in interesting times".



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16 May 2025, 1:28 am

funeralxempire wrote:
Mikurotoro92 wrote:
I am speaking from experience but plushies CANNOT replace actual human interaction or romantic relationships! ! !

Tried that with my SpongeBob SquarePants plush...but he couldn't give me what I wanted :heart: :heart: :heart:


Don't worry, soon enough RealDoll will have a SpongeBob NoPants that's packing.


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16 May 2025, 7:06 am

:lol:



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17 May 2025, 4:08 pm

cyberdora wrote:
Mao tse tung's curse on the capitalist west is alive and well, "May you live in interesting times".
A passing pedant notes -
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"May you live in interesting times" is an English expression that is claimed to be a translation of a traditional Chinese curse. The expression is ironic: "interesting" times are usually times of trouble.

Despite being so common in English as to be known as the "Chinese curse", the saying is apocryphal, and no actual Chinese source has ever been produced. The most likely connection to Chinese culture may be deduced from analysis of the late-19th-century speeches of Joseph Chamberlain, probably erroneously transmitted and revised through his son Austen Chamberlain.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/May_you_l ... ting_times


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17 May 2025, 8:33 pm

Ok thanks, always attributed it Mao!
In that case "Better to be a dog in times of tranquility than a human in times of chaos."