There seem to be two main tropes for fembot stories: the man who falls in love with a robot because real women don't like him, and the man who wants to be transformed into a fembot. This fembot story is neither of these.
Every so often the media picks up on the story that "The sex bots are coming!" Dum-dum-dummmmm! Cue pundits declaring that humans might fall in love with machines, that real world dating will end forever, and the inevitable cry from certain quarters for sex robots to be banned, or at least be given the right of consent - yeah, and next week let's give toasters the right to vote.
The raw sexy bit of this story is in the middle, but for the rest I wanted to take a much more sane approach to exploring the concept of robot sex dolls through the eyes of a young male. I also have a very raw second part which I might also share at a later date.
No I don't think the robo sex apocalypse is coming. Just a lot of fun!
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The date had sucked.
As the doors closed and rode the elevator up to my apartment I was able to reflect on how things had gone. It wasn't as though the girl hadn't been keen, and she had certainly been hot, and yet I had decided to wish her a good evening and made the short walk back to my apartment building. I had alternative plans waiting for me at home.
You never know quite what you are going to get when you approach a girl. I had moved to live in Haven city, leaving my quiet backwater of a home to live in the system's greatest metropolis, and I was discovering that the women here were very friendly and receptive to being approached by a complete stranger. It wasn't just that they found my off-worlder accent exotic either, it was that I was willing to put my ass on the line and risk rejection. Havenite men, it seemed, were rarely so bold.
Approaching women can be a bit of a numbers game because realistically most aren't in a position to say yes, but this girl had been a typical yes girl. I had been walking along the busy street on my way home from work when she had come flowing past in the opposite direction, a dynamic vision of high heeled boots and trousers, close fitted jacket and long streaming blonde hair, her expression serious and distant. I had needed to run to overtake and stop her, and snapping her out of her commuter's trance and into the present took a bit of persistence, but once she started leaning into the conversation and smiling she hadn't stopped. I had really liked her energy, and sure enough I had come away with her contact details.
Meeting her had been a success, but the date had been a disaster. For starters she had been late, fine by itself and made up for by the fact she had definitely dressed well. However, as I had I told her about my recent travels around the planet and how fascinated I was by the geography of a world that had only been made hospitable to life about a century earlier her expression had been blank. History, philosophy, books, all drew a blank. I had asked her about what she had been up to recently, started to get an appreciation of the sort of life that she lived, and to my disappointment it really wasn't attractive to me at all. As far as I could tell her life apart from her office job seemed to consist of hanging out in bars and nightclubs and a lot of drinking. There was no connection and I was feeling a lot less attracted to her.
The moment that the date had ended for me what happened when she made it clear that it was for me to get the second round of drinks. I had got the first round and when I pointed out to little miss career girl, teasingly but firmly, that it was now her turn she had tried to press her case by leaning in to me, going for a kiss. She was hot, and she certainly knew how to flirt; I was aroused, but trading my money for a girl's affection didn't interest me at all.
She didn't get her kiss and we didn't get any more drinks. I was inclined to end the date, but I kept it going for a while longer because the subject of conversation had moved on to something I found interesting. I was curious why she had wanted to come out with me and it turned out that she had found me interesting, and she was frustrated with the kind of men she was meeting in nightclubs. It seemed that those men were much more taken with the robot dancers that were appearing in some of the higher end clubs around the City.
I had heard of these robots; by all accounts some of the higher end clubs were using them to make their dance floors look busier and more attractive on average. It was a very effective way to leverage the crowd psychology within the venue to get a better atmosphere and more business through the door. The robots were inhumanly well proportioned, infinitely skilled, precise and alluring as dancers and totally willing to get close to and grind up against anyone who cared to get near them.
A totally unrealistic standard of beauty my date had declared.
Standing in my elevator I was still turned on from having been so physically close to in real terms what had been a very attractive young woman, but also, as it happened, the previous topic of robot girls. Humanoid robot technology is one of those things that has been around for quite a while, but has undergone a bit of re-invention in the last few years. Certainly the technology to build mobile autonomous robots in a human shape has been around for decades, especially on Haven. The ability to build machines that would look and feel convincingly human was never quite realised for a long time however.
Then a few years ago the efforts of a small startup company had busted the myth that faux-humans were a prohibitively difficult technology and now the big tech players had jumped on the bandwagon it seemed that that they were everywhere. In many places they were taking on roles that had previously been taken on by faceless service interfaces, such as check-in desks and food servers, but very quickly they had also taken on other roles that had been the sole preserve of humans. The indignation of my date earlier that evening had been a testament to this; robot nightclub dancers was certainly a novel use for this new technology.
I could wax lyrical about my self-declared emotional depth, intelligence and maturity, but the fact of the matter was that like all men the manifestation of feminine perfection in those robots turned me on. It was, after all, what they were designed to do, and after a recent purchase I had made I had first hand experience.
By the time my apartment door had closed on my heels there was only one thing on my mind. I walked directly to my bedroom and, opening my wardrobe, I pulled out my doll and threw it onto the bed.
"Activate"
Perhaps the most visually impressive feature of the doll was watching it deploy out of its storage mode. It was black and mostly composed of a narrow rectangular box that would become its body, with its limbs contracted to straight cylinders folded up along its sides and a simple sphere on the top that would become its head. As the limbs folded out in a most inhuman fashion the real magic began to occur. The black rubber foam-like material covering the doll began to expand immediately reshaping the outline from something box-like and mechanical to something undeniably feminine. The black surface took on the contours of muscles and bones beneath skin as a slender waist, toned abdomen and small but beautifully sculpted breasts emerged.