{"id":7086,"date":"2015-06-14T14:48:17","date_gmt":"2015-06-14T14:48:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2015\/06\/14\/the-dawn-of-the-sexbots\/"},"modified":"2015-06-14T14:48:17","modified_gmt":"2015-06-14T14:48:17","slug":"the-dawn-of-the-sexbots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2015\/06\/14\/the-dawn-of-the-sexbots\/","title":{"rendered":"The Dawn of the Sexbots"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">&#39;Dawn&#39; in the title above is curiously inapt in these times of twilight as the light goes out in the West. Indications of decline: fascination with the grotesque and the abnormal; the mainstreaming of deviant behavior; the cultural ubiquity of pornography; the loss of any sense that we are spiritual beings with a destiny that transcends the merely physical; the loss of the belief that there is anything worth living for beyond the gratification of our basest desires; the abdication of those in positions of authority, together with their denial of reality and their routine lying, as witness the brazen mendacity of Obama and Hillary.&#0160; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vanityfair.com\/culture\/2015\/04\/sexbots-realdoll-sex-toys\" target=\"_self\">Vanity Fair<\/a>, May 2015:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">At 55, he [David Mills] is tired of atheism activism, which he\u2019s been doing since the late 1970s, and ready for a career reboot. Recently he became the owner of a RealDoll\u2014the Rolls-Royce of sex dolls, created two decades ago by artist and entrepreneur Matt McMullen. Mills, who learned about them from an episode of the sitcom <em>Family Guy,<\/em> visited the company\u2019s Web site and was convinced the photos were of models, not dolls, because they all looked so realistic. More research proved otherwise.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">\u201cI thought, Well, gee, I would enjoy something like that!\u201d he recalls. \u201cI mean, I <em>love<\/em> women. God, I absolutely love women.\u201d And especially their legs. \u201cThat\u2019s what attracts me to a woman as much as a face, if not more.\u201d Big problem, though: \u201cMy fundamental personality conflict is that I really like women but I don\u2019t like to be around <em>people.<\/em>\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\"><a class=\"asset-img-link\" href=\"http:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/.a\/6a010535ce1cf6970c01b8d127c7a7970c-pi\" style=\"float: left;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Matt McMullen\" class=\"asset  asset-image at-xid-6a010535ce1cf6970c01b8d127c7a7970c img-responsive\" src=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/.a\/6a010535ce1cf6970c01b8d127c7a7970c-320wi\" style=\"margin: 0px 5px 5px 0px;\" title=\"Matt McMullen\" \/><\/a>Mills is morally sick with a sickness that&#0160; eventually comes to seem normal to its victim.&#0160; For Mills, a woman is just a female animal body.&#0160; But such bodies have their manifold physical imperfections. So he wants a perfect body, one that maximally excites his lust, whether or not the body embodies a person.&#0160; To relate to a person is too much of a bother when the gratification of lust is the supreme desideratum.&#0160; Enter the sexbot, a body that embodies nothing.<br \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">What\u2019s an average day like for him [Mills] now?<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">\u201cWell, somebody will send me an e-mail: Oh, it\u2019s just so <em>sadddd.<\/em> I know you\u2019re <em>such<\/em> a <em>sad<\/em> person with this <em>doll<\/em> and I feel <em>sooo<\/em> sorry for you,\u201d he says, mocking this individual. \u201cWell, here\u2019s how sorry you should feel for me: I sleep till 11, and if I want, maybe later. I get up. I sit around a couple hours, watch TV, maybe have lunch with my daughter if she comes. You know, go out to a restaurant and have a good dinner, come back, maybe watch some porn or TV. Maybe have a late-night snack, a beer or two, and go to bed. So don\u2019t feel sorry for me, for Christ\u2019s sake.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">Matt McMullen, above, of the appropriately named Abyss Creations.&#0160; Look at his eyes.&#0160; If the eyes are the windows of the soul . . . . Look at his arms, plastered with ugly tattoos, the graffiti&#0160; of the human body whereby a spiritual animal defaces the temple of the spirit . . . .<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#39;Dawn&#39; in the title above is curiously inapt in these times of twilight as the light goes out in the West. 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