Her soft body beside me

You may have heard that Canada has recently become home to the World's First robosexual. Surely this a trend that will continue to grow as our culture becomes more communicative but less in contact with each other face-to-face. I'm waiting for the haptic feedback suits to come to market. You know like, smell-o-vision but for touch. Before then, virtual lovers and high-tech sex toys will certainly be quite capable of filling the void (so to speak). They will be our pets, our friends, counsellors, and yes, one day it will seem completely normal to talk about your future with a robot mate or a computer boss with whom you can speak. It doesn't take a clairvoyant to see these things coming. It's as plain to see on the horizon as electric cars. Already making a stir in science (no longer sci-fiction) magazines and periodicals, these things, artificial minds, will only garner more attention within the next 15 years. 

If you're sceptical, think about it this way. Imagine all the money spent on sex in the world today, and yesterday, and throughout our common history. You can then picture the sort of effort that we are capable of in search of a mate, at least from an instinctual perspective.
The one stumbling block engineers are running into presently is not so much how to make the mind, but also how to make the body neccesary to provide it with the learning it would otherwise be impossible to teach in time we've got left -by any estimate- on Earth.


Click here for a .pdf file with stats on the current sex industry worldwide, not including prostitution which is notorously difficut to even estimate. The faint of heart take note the document also tragically includes some stats about child abuses and exploitation on page 3 which you may find disturbing.