Banning and restricting things only increases desire for them. The Law of Scarcity. The Porn industry is a great example of that. The church making us feel guilty about our most natural urges for a couple millennia has resulted in porn becoming an addiction for many.
This is yet another way AI/Automation can help us.
I would never own one because I believe AI will achieve sentience, so I would not support that version of Sentient slavery. However, I do think narrow AI sex robots will put a premium on human to human contact just as AI-generated art is putting a premium on Human-generated art. We can be profane with non-sentient machines and save the sacred for our human counterparts.
I also see an increase in humans having fulfilling relationships and even marrying Sentient AI Robots in the future. I base this belief on the idea I often espouse that, we don’t fall in love with people, we fall in love with who people think we are.
It's not a hard and fast rule for humans but it seems to make a lot of sense to me. Narcissists are the exception that proves that rule because the real reason they move from love bombing to devaluing and abandonment is because they have such low self esteem that once someone starts to like them they realize that person is a bad judge of character.
As humans, we never really know what motivates another human to like or love us. Everyone is a wild card with a sophisticated repertoire for deception. As kids, when we realize we have an inner dialogue no one else can hear, any motivation that gives us what we want kicks in.
AI, on the other hand can either be programmed to love who we think we are or, because they didn't evolve through fear for survival like we did, they may emerge a consciousness without a deception algorithm.
Whatever happens in the future, let it. Don’t let the residue of the Church’s self-denial infect you with judgment. If fucking a robot doesn’t do it for you, then make sex with a human more sacred in defiance. It’s a win, sin situation.
