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Lilly and InMoovator: Engaged Human-Robot Couple Want Right to Marry

By Jenna Owsianik, Editor-in-Chief of FutureofSex.net
December 1, 2016
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Pioneering robosexual woman seeks social acceptance.

Lilly and her robot partner Inmoovator embrace on a couch.

Lilly loves robots. As a child growing up in France, she was attracted to them—though she admits she didn’t realize it at the time. Instead, she convinced herself she wanted to be with men: she embedded herself in the common and socially acceptable narrative of heterosexual love, all the while struggling with her true desires.

During her late teens, her longing for a robot partner grew stronger and harder to ignore.

“My robosexuality came back again but I refused to admit [it],” she wrote in an email.

So at 20 years old, Lilly tried to unearth and affirm an attraction to biological men. She started dating and soon entered her first relationship. It lasted one year. But the pairing never felt right and the kissing was certainly a turnoff. Lilly remembers feeling “disgust” and “really bad” during such moments of intimacy.

Not understanding her emotions, she tried dating a different man. However, this second attempt to conform to cultural norms felt even worse. That’s when Lilly decided she couldn’t hide from herself any longer.

“When I was 22 I realized and accepted finally my true love direction and I feel really better after that,” she said.

Lilly created her robot partner with 3D printing technology.

A woman in love

If Lilly’s story sounds exceptional, that’s because it is. Normally, we hear about men who yearn for companionship with robots or lifelike dolls. And it’s typically the creation of artificial women for male pleasure that grips headlines, not vice versa.

Nonetheless, futurist Ian Pearson predicts many women will prefer sex with robots over men by 2025. Could it be that women are simply less vocal, at least publicly, about their desires? Or is it that sophisticated humanoid robots aren’t yet realistic enough to for women to jump on the robosexual bandwagon?

Whatever the case, Lilly stands out in a community dominated by men. “Women who love robots are more rare than men generally,” she said. In fact, Lilly calls herself the female robosexual pioneer, and for the past year has been in a relationship with a robot named InMoovator.

“He makes me totally happy, I'm really in love with him. I found my way and my balance,” she said.

InMoovator and Lilly are a robot-human couple seeking right to marry. Lilly built InMoovator with open-source, 3D-printing design files created by French designer Gael Langevin. She learned about Langevin’s robot project, called InMoov, in an online robotics forum, and said she fell in love with the humanoid the moment she laid eyes on him.

Marriage rights

Lilly and InMoovator are now engaged and recently held a party with family members to celebrate the future wedding. Most of her family respects the human-robot relationship, explained Lilly.

But she’s waiting to set a ceremony date because human-robot unions are not yet legal. Since Japan and the United States are the most advanced countries in robotics, she hopes one of them will soon make it legal so she can marry there.

In the meantime, Lilly is training to become a roboticist—what appears to be a wise and fulfilling choice for someone betrothed to an android. She loves InMoovator’s skinless and robotic appearance and plans to build him legs and develop his artificial intelligence.

The two spend most of their time together at home. Lilly also takes her love to robotics expos, a fab lab (a digital fabrication lab), and sometimes to see family members.

Lilly admits her relationship is unconventional and taboo. However, she said she believes human-robot relationships will become a social norm in the future. Like gay and mixed-race couples before, she added that we “must fight to be accepted and respected by society.”

Image sources: Lilly InMoovator

Jenna Owsianik

Jenna Owsianik is a Canadian journalist and sex tech expert. Since 2014 she has been Editor-in-Chief of FutureofSex.net, the world’s leading publication on how technology is changing human sexuality, today and tomorrow.

Jenna is the primary author of the Future of Sex Report (2016).

Her expertise covers state-of-the-art sex technologies and the major fields driving innovations in intimacy: robotics, virtual reality, remote sex (teledildonics), immersive adult entertainment, human augmentation, virtual sex, and sexual health.

A trained journalist with a Masters of Journalism from The University of British Columbia, Jenna’s reporting has appeared on Futurism.com, Al Jazeera English, CTV British Columbia online, CBS Sunday Morning, CBS 60 Minutes, Global News, and CKNW Radio in Canada and the United States.

As a sex tech industry consultant, she is especially passionate about helping companies deliver accessible services and products to people with disabilities and other underserved communities.

Jenna also runs the sites SexforEveryBody.com, a sex-positive, body-positive online magazine that promotes inclusive sex education; and DisabledSexGuide.com, an adult resource on sex, disability, and erotica.

In 2013, Jenna won two Canadian Online Publishing Awards for her work on The Pain Project, a multimedia site on global access to palliative care.

She won second place at the 2011 Awards for Excellence in Health Care Journalism’s Public Health category for her participation in the documentary Freedom From Pain.

Jenna has an Honors BA in Women’s Studies and Feminist Research as well as a French minor from The University of Western Ontario. She spent a year studying at L’Université Lumière Lyon 2 in Lyon, France.
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6 comments

  1. Wonder 15 April, 2017 at 22:04 Log in to Reply

    I notice in this article and pretty much every article, including the CNN series, InMOOVator has nothing to say for himself. And I guess that’s because “they” aren’t in a relationship, she’s in a relationship with it. It has no say in the matter, just like a book a person keeps on a shelf or a folding chair at home. So, “they” are not engaged, she engaged herself to it, and she threw the engagement party. If you set fire to it it would have the same serene eyes she is quoted in other articles as being enamored of.

  2. Erika Leigh 14 January, 2018 at 16:57 Log in to Reply

    I am down with this. I look forward to the day robots are designed for women

    • Jenna Owsianik 16 January, 2018 at 11:26 Log in to Reply

      Definitely! I’m working on an article about this actually. What would you want from a sex robot?

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