Who knows if not a such a distant future (maybe already exists...), a robot will perform whatever fantasy his master has in mind, as fears the anthropologist Arthur Harkins: "Already there is talk of creation of androids for sexual purposes. I think you are going to see an industry develop in the sexual-appliance area. At first it will be machine appliances, and eventually you will see biological substitutes or surrogates for human sexual organs being employed in stationary and mobile machine systems" (7) If one wants to have some fun with one of the latest objects provided by new technologies, even if it doesn’t move, it is certainly much more sophisticated than the "regular" sex-doll. Take a peek, and if you what to see more, then go to www.realdoll.com.

Such a realistic doll gives a lot to think. If a company spend time and money developing such an object it is because its certain it will sell it well. So, there are out there many people who will enjoy themselves with a silicone doll rather than someone (even if that someone can have almost the same amount of silicone in the body). is this more one symptom of what Ballard calls the death of affect?. In his opinion, the death of affect is: "the most terrifying casualty of a world ruled by fictions of every kind - mass merchandising, advertising, politics conducted as a branch of advertising... the increasing blurring and intermingling of identities within the realm of consumer goods, the preempting of any free or original imaginative response to experience, if humans have been seducted by technology, living most of the time in front of a screen, is there a way out?" (8)  (continua »»)