Do people fantasize about falling in love with sex dolls? from jpsdoll's blog

Researchers at a domestic university conducted a survey of college students to determine whether they would fall in love with sex dolls. More than two-thirds of men agree with this view, while the proportion of women who oppose this view is almost the same.

The first reaction is to attribute this difference to gender. Who would disagree with the statement that as long as humanity's basic needs are met, humanity will not be interested in anything? When interpersonal relationships are in chaos and the psychological and physical transmission of diseases becomes a real threat, sex dolls may be the best choice to get rid of this relationship.

Although the kydoll editor recognized the inclination of this view, he felt that a movie "Air Puppet" with alternative consciousness as its theme also supports this view. This work by Japanese anime master Hirokazu Kee tells the story of an anime sex doll named "Xiao Wang" who wakes up when his owner Hideo goes to work. When they were together, Xiu Xiong took care of this lifeless TPE sex doll to the best of his ability, bathed her, combed her hair, dressed her, and fell in love with her. But when he found out that she was "alive", he demanded that it be restored as before.

As an "air doll" that tells the story of urban loneliness, it is actually a journey of seeking love in another realm of consciousness. The desire to seek love in this basic instinct is completely human. But in this world full of bizarre love, the path of seeking love ended in tragedy. Hideo is portrayed as a villain, but is he an outsider or a normal one in the age of fast food love?

Is everything terrible? When the kydoll editor saw the conclusions of the research, he also thought of another movie "She" directed by Spike Jones in 2013, starring Jackie Phoenix, who played a lonely man in the future world. Had an affection for an ai sex robot doll named "Samantha".

At the beginning of the film, Theodore was in the grief of divorce and did not want to try a new relationship. However, the loneliness that came from the city prompted him to get in touch with Samantha. Perhaps it was his pain in the failure of real interpersonal relationships that stimulated him, but who can say? Perhaps Scarlett Johansson's voice attracted him.

If "Air Puppet" still says the last tenderness of man, "She" is just the opposite. At the end of the film, Samantha dealt him a fatal blow. It told Theodore that it was not only with him, but also in contact with thousands of people every second. This was a blow to the audience. It hurts Theo even more. It allows us to have a common understanding of technology. Samantha's robot multitasking program makes life easier, rather than suddenly erasing all meanings of life, just as Samantha brings such a hollow, instrumental understanding.

However, the different treatment of non-human love in “Air Puppet” and “She” also reveals a common fact. Although “Xiaowang” and “Samantha” are not human, they are very human. For “Xiaowang”, this is easier to imagine. After all, she is a very life size sex doll, but even the pure voice “Samantha” makes people think she is a real person. When they appear on the screen, the audience cannot imagine them as anything other than humans. To simply admit them is to constantly fight the impulse to treat them as non-human.

If we consider them human, they all ask us a more fundamental question: What are we talking about when we talk about sex dolls? With the infiltration of artificial intelligence, should we realize that we may not be able to distinguish between robots and humans beyond the boundaries of science?

If the study participants had seen a sex doll or an anthropomorphic new-age robot before being asked this question, their answers may be completely different.