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Off the Scale: Miniature Artificial Companions May Equal Large Pleasures

By M. Christian
August 12, 2024
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Do sexbots need to be life size to be physically and emotionally satisfying?

With the seemingly exponential rise in the number and types of hyper-realistic artificial companions currently available, it’s easy to forget their ancestors could fit in the palm of your hand—and their more technologically advanced descendants may do so again.

Even the famous Venus of Willendorf could have been a form of Paleolithic adult entertainment. To this day, many like playing sex games with sexually explicit miniatures, undoubtedly aided by new, sensually pliant plastics that give them the look and texture of their life size brethren.

Given the above, it’s only a matter of time until we have highly sophisticated, AI-operated, fully autonomous, small-scale artificial companions.

Small, exciting worlds

By now, you might be asking yourself why manufacture, let alone purchase and use, miniature artificial companions?

Financially, for the price of a single human-sized artificial companion, you could buy a wall-to-wall orgy of premium-quality erotic BJDs.

Of course, money isn’t everything. There’s also how closely both communities mirror each other, each embracing their own—yet, after further consideration, quite similar—passions. 

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The difference is how artificial companions and erotic dolls are enjoyed.  The former is directly sexual, but the latter is more—well, like playing with dolls.

Which, when you think of it, may make them more akin to characters in an erotic video game, echoing erotic doll fanciers, which can be arousing as well as emotionally fulfilling.

Talking to Frame, celebrated BJD designer Pasha Setrova says, “In the end, dolls are still representative, but not necessarily aspirational. They are small portals to the unified aesthetic worlds that we can tap into via our imaginations, and hunt for in music, books, movies, and art.” 

Rush, previously a soldier and now an avid doll enthusiast, then proceeded to their journey from the former to the latter, “Femininity, it’s attractive to me. I found dolls [were] a safe way to explore that, to feel creative with that. It’s a way to be controlling without being possessive.”

Tiny dancers

Not to suggest replacing imagination with silicone, but as we develop artificial companions who feel, look, and act more naturally, the same technology could be packed into tomorrow’s miniature sex dolls.

Lifelike movements, likely controlled by either an onboard or wirelessly linked AI, with everything monitored by a pair of doll-eye-mounted nearly microscopic stereoscopic cameras—this is where things get really interesting.

Because when you connect all this to a set of haptic-tech-equipped VR rigs, rather than merely gazing down at a crowd of albeit realistically animated, sexually alluring, outrageously fetishwear-garbed, state-of-the-art dolls, you’d instead be one of them.

Worried you’d be too tiny to feel, hear, taste, or touch anything?  Don’t be, as specialized software, probably AI-driven, which would help fill in the gaps, not to mention tweaking your vision to make everyone look less like dolls and more like actual humans with the option to see them and yourself as dolls if that’s your thing.

With all this and more, tomorrow’s artificial companions—though they’d begun as sculpted clay, bundles of twigs, and clumps of straw—would be forever at our side or tucked into a convenient pocket, ready at a moment’s notice to be our dearest cherished love.

Size matters

To clarify, my use of small to describe tomorrow’s less-than-human-sized sexbots doesn’t mean mimicking the appearance or actions of a person below the age of consent.  

Unfortunately, this is less than true today, as the erotic side of the Ball Jointed Doll (BJD) community’s pronounced fondness for disturbingly young figures demonstrates. 

In all fairness, a respectable number of fans clearly prefer constructing, accessorizing, and interacting with mature-looking figures.

Hello dolly

Though these and other erotic possibilities miniature sexbots might delight us with in the years ahead, there’s something important I hope we never lose sight of.

Pasha Setrova and Rush understand it, as have billions of other people before or since: that often the key to happiness and even shame-free sexual fulfillment is play.

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M. Christian

M.Christian (they/them) loves nothing better than exploring the intersections of sex and technology—and speculating on the future of both. A highly regarded erotica writer they have six novels,12 collections, 100+ short stories, and 25 anthologies as an editor to their name. Their non-fiction regularly appears in many sites, but they're most proud of being a regular contributor to Future of Sex.

Of their erotic fiction, Tristan Taormino said that “M.Christian is a literary stylist of the highest caliber: smart, funny, frightening, sexy—there's nothing [they] can't write about… and brilliantly.”

Reflecting their unique ability to sympathetically and convincingly write for a range of genders and sexual orientations, their stories have appeared in multiple editions of Best American Erotica, Best Gay Erotica, Best Lesbian Erotica, The Mammoth Books of Erotica, and others. Their collection of gay erotic fiction, Dirty Words, was a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award.

While a majority of their stories have been collected into books like Dirty Words, their fondness for combining sex and science fiction is clearly evident in collections that include Rude Mechanicals, Technorotica, Better Than The Real Thing, Skin Effect Effect, Bachelor Machine, and Hard Drive: The Best Sci-Fi Erotica of M.Christian.

As a novelist, M.Christian’s versatility is on full display with Running Dry, The Very Bloody Marys, Brushes, Painted Doll; and the somewhat controversial queer BDSM/horror/thrillers Finger's Breadth, and Me2.

M.Christian has worked on the industry’s production side as an Associate Publisher for Renaissance E Books and as a Publisher for Digital Parchment Services. The latter dedicated to celebrating the works of science-fiction legends such as William Rotsler, Jerome Bixby, Jody Scott, Arthur Byron Cover, Ernest Hogan, and James Van Hise.

Covering topics like BDSM safety, sexual education, senior sexuality concerns, queer and gender issues, plus reviewing a variety of sex tech products, M.Christian’s non-fiction has appeared on sites like Kinkly, Tickle.Life, Sexpert, Queer Majority, Sex for Every Body, and—of course—their ongoing work for Future of Sex.

If there’s anything M.Christian enjoys more than writing, it’s teaching. A featured presenter, sometimes with their friend Ralph Greco Jr, at national sex and BDSM events, they have lectured on kink play (with an emphasis on safety), polyamory, boosting sexual creativity, and erotica writing--for beginners or those wanting to go pro.

M.Christian is a cohost on two popular sex-education podcasts: Love’s Outer Limits with Dr. Amy Marsh and Licking Non-Vanilla with Ralph Greco, Jr.
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