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Samantha-bot Is a Sex Doll That Needs to Be Seduced: Step Forward or Step Back?

By M. Christian
April 6, 2017
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A gynoid designed to simulate female arousal receieves mixed response.

Sergi Santos’s Samantha-bot offers a lot of what other love dolls do—but it’s what the synthetic needs that sets it apart.

Superficially, Samantha certainly looks like other synthetic love dolls on the market, but it’s her inner workings and programming that make her particularly unique: the Barcelona-based engineer has created an elaborate mechanism that requires Samantha be, to put it simply, pleasured before she reciprocates.

Speaking to Ruptly TV, and reported by the Huffington Post, Santos says of his creation: “Basically she likes to be touched. She has different modes of interaction―she has romantic, she has family and she has also sexy modes.”

The game of Samantha

Triggered by physical contact, Samantha first begins by asking that the user take it easy, by saying phrases such as “nice and gentle” and, when things are more to her liking, “I love this.”

In addition to touch, Samantha also responds to direct sexual, and sensual, contact. “Normally she likes to be kissed always and also she responds to, basically, the G-spot and also the breasts,” Santos added.

Like playing a kind of anthropomorphized video game, the end goal is to arouse and stimulate the bot until it achieves a simulated orgasm.

While some see Samantha’s creation as a positive advancement—an attempt to create a sexbot that appears to feel and shifts the focus the sexual pleasure away from the user alone—others find the synthetic’s programming problematic.

Women as bots

Sinziana Gutiu, a human rights lawyer, spoke to Tech.Mic saying that Samantha “sends the message that women are always sexually or ‘romantically' available, and that ‘consent' is just a matter of persistence and touching them in the right place.”

It’s this idea of turning female sexual interaction into a game that can be won with the right set of touches, like an erotic cheat-code, that many have found troubling, especially if mistakenly come to believe flesh-and-blood women can be turned on the same way.

Santos himself seems to be at least aware of the criticism Samantha has garnered: “I think that men should understand that a woman is not an object. It's not that you stick a penis in vagina and that's all. I said no, it's … about having a companion as well.”

Some positive possibilities

In the end, though, Samantha is still a female-appearing plaything created by a man for the sole purpose of pleasing men. Sure, Santos’s sexbot may superficially seem to be experiencing excitement, but even that is to make the male user feel good.

So is Samantha part of a coming way of potentially beneficial sexbots or another sign that this kind of technology is yet another way to turn women into nothing but pleasure objects?

It’s hard to say at this point but at least people are talking about it. Perhaps all this will inspire some engineer to build and create an android companion that will have the ability to consent. It could even be a powerful educational tool to help some men relate to women not as objects but as human beings.

Better yet, what we need is a female engineer: someone to add an invaluable, and much needed, perspective to a new type of gynoid companion.

Image Sources: Daily Mail, torbakhopper

M. Christian

M.Christian loves nothing better than exploring the intersections of sex and technology—and speculating on the future of both. A highly regarded erotica writer he has six novels,12 collections,100+ short stories, and 25 anthologies as an editor to his name. His non-fiction regularly appears n many sites, but he’s most proud of being a regular contributor to Future of Sex.

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

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

While a majority of his stories have been collected into books like Dirty Words, his 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 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 sextech products, M.Christian’s non-fiction has appeared on sites like Kinkly, Tickle.Life, Sexpert, Queer Majority, Sex for Every Body, and—of course—his ongoing work for Future of Sex.

If there’s anything M.Christian enjoys more than writing, it’s teaching. A featured presenter, sometimes with his friend Ralph Greco Jr, at national sex and BDSM events, he’s 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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