El Pais paywall can be disabled via reader view in your web browser.

    • MrPoopyButthole@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      1
      ·
      9 months ago

      I agree with you in general but fleshlights don’t really resemble a human any more than a dildo IMO.

      Air pulse vibrators? I’m going to have to Google this haha 😄

    • JustEnoughDucks@feddit.nl
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      1
      ·
      edit-2
      1 year ago

      https://duckduckgo.com/?q=robot+vacuum&t=fpas&iax=images&ia=images

      Ah yes, the extremely humanlike robots. 😂

      I think one difference is that men often have no support structures at all, and certainly not with levels of physical or emotional connection. They aren’t just craving sex, they are craving human intimacy and connection where it is very normalized in the west among women to have emotional and physical platonic intimacy among friend support groups.

    • LaggyKar@programming.dev
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      0
      ·
      1 year ago

      A robot doesn’t need to be anthropomorphic, an assembly line robot is still a robot. It does however need to be able to perform some actions autonomously, for which a vibrator hardly qualifies.

      • Ember James@lemmy.ca
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        1
        arrow-down
        2
        ·
        1 year ago

        It does however need to be able to perform some actions autonomously, for which a vibrator hardly qualifies.

        Fuck Machine has entered the chat

    • barsoap@lemm.ee
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      0
      ·
      1 year ago

      Overpriced pornstar-branded fleshlights aren’t the only masturbators in town and it’s not like there’s no life-like dildos either. The long and short of it is that the mechanics of a lubed hole are superior to that of a hand and you’re not looking at the entry point all the time so noone actually cares what they look like.

      Yes, the branded stuff does exist, humans, male female, doesn’t matter, enter parasocial relationships news at 11. Can you imagine how well Justin Bieber dildos would sell.