Jophiel wrote:
I'll put my best toymaker elves on it!
The "rapedoll" thing was spurred by Guenny's statement that anyone who can afford robotic sex dolls could probably go out and flash some cash for real sex. I'm sure there's more to it than that (complete social ineptitude, etc) but if we take it as true then your real market would be in meeting sexual desires that can't be easily or legally "bought".
Like I said, my quote was spurred on by a day's worth of reading about men and their sex dolls, and I do realize the social ineptitude is really a huge part of the situation, but if a man can get enough cash to afford a robot that costs as much as a car, he should be able to at least buy (high end?) prostitute that can at least help with his needs for companionship, sex, etc.
Really, a lot of the men with dolls spend most of their time lamenting about the trials of saving up for a new one, while spending all of their money in the children's section of department stores buying outfits for the ones they already have.
A lot of it, in part with the social ineptitude, will cross-thread shenanigans with the post I just made about over-sexualizing young, attractive women. Most men have this physical ideal of a woman that they think that they will never obtain, and after years of growing up in our culture it can become like a forbidden fruit. I think there are a lot of men who would use their "get out of rape free card" at a fairly young age, I think, when they are emotionally immature and have little (hormonal) impulse control.
I voted high.
I wanted to add, also, that really, the majority of the men with sex dolls do use them because of the COMPLETE control factor. Most of these men give them personalities just like their own ("She loves Linux! We talked about it for hours last night!"), same hobbies, it's almost narcissistic in a way, but it's sad, because it really stems from their fear and inability to deal with a real woman with real emotions that sometimes just don't make sense.
I think I voted high because I supposed in the situation, that the woman would be more likely to be in a sedated state than a threatened one, maybe even completely passed out. There are men who would take advantage of it to displace emotions that are romantic in nature.
Edited, Feb 1st 2010 2:26pm by Guenny