Glenn Beck is Worried We Will Become Obsessed With Robot Sex

January 17, 2013

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Shock jock believes society is endangered by the ease of frolicking with robots.

American shock jock Glenn Beck put aside the struggling U.S. economy, gun control, and other issues for a much bigger concern: Robot sex. On his The Blaze TV show, the former Fox News host made it clear that frisky robots are a threat to humanity.

“The most destructive thing for today’s relationships… is pornography,” he argues, considering sexually-capable robots to be the ultimate adult entertainment. “Why would I want to have sex with someone when I don’t have to worry about you and your feelings, and I get exactly what I want whenever I want?”

He says scientists will have fully-functional sex robots available within five years so everyone could have their own “milking machine.”

Glenn Beck is known for far-fetched conspiracy theories usually involving Nazis, gays and/or liberals, but there is one major problem with his concern: Sex robots already exist. Luckily they haven’t created a proverbial Rise of the Machines yet.

The second assumption here is that technology will overtake humanity with its perfect love bots, but, chances are, they will never be the same. Beck’s worry is anything but new: Publishers were (and are!) afraid that the Internet will stop people from reading books, just as movie theater owners were threatened by VHS. The point is that consumers get excited about a new technology, realize the benefits and limitations of it and, finally, integrate the new tech in with the old methods and use their judgment to figure out which is best for each situation.

Beck manages to glide over several benefits to physical human relationships, from procreation to intimacy. There are also benefits to sex robots for couples with wildly different sex drives and interests, physically challenged people or just people who enjoy the company of a robot.

It will be fun to see, in 2018, if Beck’s sex-robots-for-all vision comes true and how many of his own viewers will have a Svedka-style bot in their homes.

Damon Brown

Damon Brown is a distinguished best-selling author, public speaker, and coach to nontraditional entrepreneurs.

He co-founded the #1 Apple app Cuddlr, a social-meeting application where strangers living within walking distance could meet for casual, platonic cuddling. In 2015 he sold Cuddlr, just a year after its launch, jump-starting the platonic connection industry. The app had 200,000 users and was featured on both the covers of The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) and the New York Times.

Damon is the author of 19 books including Our Virtual Shadow: Why We Are Obsessed with Documenting Our Lives Online (2013), Bring Your Worth: Level Up Your Creative Power, Value & Services to the World (2019), The Bite-Sized Entrepreneur (2016), The Ultimate Bite-Size Entrepreneur (2017), The Productive Bite-Sized Entrepreneur (2016), The Balanced Bite-Sized Entrepreneur (2017), and The Passive Writer: 5 Steps to Earning Money in Your Sleep (2018).

He holds a master's degree in Magazine Publishing from Northwestern University and sits on the board of the American Society of Journalists and Authors. His media clients include Blizzard Activision, Western Digital, TEDx, Al Jazeera America, Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics, and GWC. He has been featured in several newspapers, magazines, and online publications including Playboy Magazine, New York Post, AARP Magazine, and CNN.

Damon is also the founder and developer of So Quotable (SoQuo) that aims to capture quotes in real life. SoQuo has been featured in the TED Book "Our Virtual Shadow" and its quotes shared by TED, Al Jazeera America, and other media organizations.

Damon is a notable TED Talk Speaker delivering presentations like "The Positive Power of Observation" in 2014 at Whistler, British Columbia, Canada, and "Why You Should Strive for Good Enough" in 2018 for TEDxToledo.

His passion to help side hustlers, solopreneurs, and other non-traditional entrepreneurs led him to start his column "Sane Success" in the leading American business magazine, Inc. As a columnist on Inc. Magazine, Damon explores how ambitious entrepreneurs can thrive without destroying their personal relationships or sacrificing their health.