Robot Sex

[ysabetwordsmith]

Here's an amusing tidbit about moral attitudes regarding robot sex.

My view: Having sex with another sentient being is cheating, if you have accepted monogamous parameters in your relationship.  Having sex with an inanimate object is not cheating, because it is not a person.

What do you think?

Comments

Re: Also...

[johnpalmer.livejournal.com]

"It's not just masturbation, though. The time and emotional investment alone can be counted as cheating by some people -- which is a serious issue, because emotional adultery is a real problem on one hand while on the other hand isolating someone from their friends is possessive and abusive."

Nod. But what I was referencing re "masturbation" was hearing of some people who felt cheated upon because they walked in on the other person rocking their own world.

I can kind of get that, sometimes, especially if sex has been too-infrequent (which is deliberately question-begging) - "Hey! I've been aching for that myself! Why didn't I get an invite?" Except I also know, sometimes people just want the physical release and don't want to have to worry about anyone or anything else. So it rubs me the wrong way is an issue that disturbs me, even though I know it's none of my business.

It can get *really* complicated if someone has some unusual desires that one person can't or won't accommodate. "You went and engaged in this activity with someone, without explicit sex, but I know it's highly sexually charged for you!"

I know what answer *I* prefer to such a situation, but there aren't any good ones, just working ones. Some of the working ones end up incredibly good, of course! But one can't say "the 'good' answer is X", IMHO.