Do sexbots need to be life size to be physically and emotionally satisfying?
With the seemingly exponential rise in the number and types of hyper-realistic artificial companions currently available, it’s easy to forget their ancestors could fit in the palm of your hand—and their more technologically advanced descendants may do so again.
Even the famous Venus of Willendorf could have been a form of Paleolithic adult entertainment. To this day, many like playing sex games with sexually explicit miniatures, undoubtedly aided by new, sensually pliant plastics that give them the look and texture of their life size brethren.
Given the above, it’s only a matter of time until we have highly sophisticated, AI-operated, fully autonomous, small-scale artificial companions.
Small, exciting worlds
By now, you might be asking yourself why manufacture, let alone purchase and use, miniature artificial companions?
Financially, for the price of a single human-sized artificial companion, you could buy a wall-to-wall orgy of premium-quality erotic BJDs.
Of course, money isn’t everything. There’s also how closely both communities mirror each other, each embracing their own—yet, after further consideration, quite similar—passions.
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The difference is how artificial companions and erotic dolls are enjoyed. The former is directly sexual, but the latter is more—well, like playing with dolls.
Which, when you think of it, may make them more akin to characters in an erotic video game, echoing erotic doll fanciers, which can be arousing as well as emotionally fulfilling.
Talking to Frame, celebrated BJD designer Pasha Setrova says, “In the end, dolls are still representative, but not necessarily aspirational. They are small portals to the unified aesthetic worlds that we can tap into via our imaginations, and hunt for in music, books, movies, and art.”
Rush, previously a soldier and now an avid doll enthusiast, then proceeded to their journey from the former to the latter, “Femininity, it’s attractive to me. I found dolls [were] a safe way to explore that, to feel creative with that. It’s a way to be controlling without being possessive.”
Tiny dancers
Not to suggest replacing imagination with silicone, but as we develop artificial companions who feel, look, and act more naturally, the same technology could be packed into tomorrow’s miniature sex dolls.
Lifelike movements, likely controlled by either an onboard or wirelessly linked AI, with everything monitored by a pair of doll-eye-mounted nearly microscopic stereoscopic cameras—this is where things get really interesting.
Because when you connect all this to a set of haptic-tech-equipped VR rigs, rather than merely gazing down at a crowd of albeit realistically animated, sexually alluring, outrageously fetishwear-garbed, state-of-the-art dolls, you’d instead be one of them.
Worried you’d be too tiny to feel, hear, taste, or touch anything? Don’t be, as specialized software, probably AI-driven, which would help fill in the gaps, not to mention tweaking your vision to make everyone look less like dolls and more like actual humans with the option to see them and yourself as dolls if that’s your thing.
With all this and more, tomorrow’s artificial companions—though they’d begun as sculpted clay, bundles of twigs, and clumps of straw—would be forever at our side or tucked into a convenient pocket, ready at a moment’s notice to be our dearest cherished love.
Size matters
To clarify, my use of small to describe tomorrow’s less-than-human-sized sexbots doesn’t mean mimicking the appearance or actions of a person below the age of consent.
Unfortunately, this is less than true today, as the erotic side of the Ball Jointed Doll (BJD) community’s pronounced fondness for disturbingly young figures demonstrates.
In all fairness, a respectable number of fans clearly prefer constructing, accessorizing, and interacting with mature-looking figures.
Hello dolly
Though these and other erotic possibilities miniature sexbots might delight us with in the years ahead, there’s something important I hope we never lose sight of.
Pasha Setrova and Rush understand it, as have billions of other people before or since: that often the key to happiness and even shame-free sexual fulfillment is play.
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