This is a particularly relevant topic as we race towards the singularity and all of the various Sci-fi tropes are soon becoming real. Convincing android sex workers are an inevitability at this point.
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I mean, the obvious solution is superhuman sexbots, right? People aren’t breeding anyways, they don’t really seem to like each other much for relationships qua relationships given “divorces and mutually unhappy marriage” rates, at least when given options and interesting Western lives.
My take on the divorce rate, is that people no longer know how to talk to each other in the context of a relationship. Instead of actually substantively talking to each other, so many accept a substitute. By this, I mean shutting down one's partner or letting one's self be shut down. This is also connected to an erosion in society's teaching people about accountability.
My partner and I are accountable to each other, and we know how to actually talk about everything, including uncomfortable things. From what I see, we are an uncommon case.
Maybe sex bots will become fertility assistants by carrying seeds between partners who can't talk to each other. Future models may feature internal refrigeration.
Divorce rates spiked after it became easier to get one through no-fault divorce, and slowly reduced from there.
Now, we need to consider the difference between that and cohabiting couples, but the other piece is that there were a lot of unhappy marriages that had no escape until no-fault divorce. They weren't better about talking about everything, but they were even worse at bucking societal expectation.
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This is a particularly relevant topic as we race towards the singularity and all of the various Sci-fi tropes are soon becoming real. Convincing android sex workers are an inevitability at this point.
EDIT:
Top comment as of my writing:
I mean, the obvious solution is superhuman sexbots, right? People aren’t breeding anyways, they don’t really seem to like each other much for relationships qua relationships given “divorces and mutually unhappy marriage” rates, at least when given options and interesting Western lives.
My take on the divorce rate, is that people no longer know how to talk to each other in the context of a relationship. Instead of actually substantively talking to each other, so many accept a substitute. By this, I mean shutting down one's partner or letting one's self be shut down. This is also connected to an erosion in society's teaching people about accountability.
My partner and I are accountable to each other, and we know how to actually talk about everything, including uncomfortable things. From what I see, we are an uncommon case.
Maybe sex bots will become fertility assistants by carrying seeds between partners who can't talk to each other. Future models may feature internal refrigeration.
Curiously, an internal refrigeration feature of sexbots has already been covered in hentai.
The divorce rate over time does not support this argument. https://cdn.carrot.com/uploads/sites/24362/2021/03/Divorce-R...
Divorce rates spiked after it became easier to get one through no-fault divorce, and slowly reduced from there.
Now, we need to consider the difference between that and cohabiting couples, but the other piece is that there were a lot of unhappy marriages that had no escape until no-fault divorce. They weren't better about talking about everything, but they were even worse at bucking societal expectation.
The divorce rate over time does not support this argument.
No it doesn't so much bearing. I was talking about the situation with communications in relationships in the present day, not back in the 80's.