As if we needed more evidence that men under the right circumstances will commit sexual assault, the Arts (sic) Electronica Festival in Linz, Austria teams up with Synthea Amatus to bring you one of the most disgusting stories ever told! It would seem that the right-good gentlemen, maybe a few ladies? who knows, were so thrilled to see the display model of the “intelligent” sex doll on display there, that they serially gang raped it until it needed significant repairs and a very deep cleaning.

A quick bothersome irksome annoying aside: The HuffPost article and other articles identified the festival as the Arts Electronica Festival in Linz, Austria. A yahoo search — I’m in China and use one of the incarnations of Mozilla Firefox because China blocks google and an illegal VPN is needed to access google stuff, but the VPN frequently slows the already slow shitty connection down enough to make it not worth it (another bothersome, irksome annoying aside that makes the first bothersome irksome annoying aside just that much longer — I know MOTHER! If I didn’t have to make these stupid witless jokes, it would be quicker. You know what else would make it quicker? Not needing to argue with you in the blog post!) — reveals it likely be the Ars sans t Electronica Festival started in 1979. There’s your journalistic standards mucking the narrative up! The unethical life is just so much easier.

Most of the articles I’ve read — okay, skimmed (darn you ethics! Darn you to heck!) I even “read” the Breitbart article. Christ, now I feel dirty. I’ll have to go soak in the acid bath for the weekend just to get the Breitbart stain off me — have reported the following “injuries” to “Samantha:”

• “heavily soiled” with the quotation marks. Just don’t put it under a black light, amirite? Fucking hell. It was a public display, people! We’re soiling sex dolls with our bodily fluids — could it just mean sweat, drool, and the occasional errant hair? Please god, could it be limited to those almost socially acceptable personal soiling substances?
• Her breasts, legs, and arms were mounted. Mounted? As in humped? It was a public display! My mother-in-law had a schnauzer that would mount your leg and foot in public. The dog didn’t last long. It was Texas after all. We save that kinda behavior for the bedroom. I had a third grade trip to a dairy go bad because of public mounting by horses at the place — still traumatized by that one, I am! Thank you Mr. Schneider! Thanks a lot, you old bastard!  Our house ended up soaked from one end to the other because of what started as a public mounting of our cat by a passing tom — he got in the house when we tried to rescue her, and dammit, if he managed to get into every room we tried to isolate her in and they could only be separated by liberal dousings of pans of water. My mother got home from work to find two sobbing, hysterical, and exhausted children and two very wet and annoyed cats. It was not a fun weekend. That’s what happens when “mounting” happens in public! No good can ever come from it.
• Two fingers were broken. I can’t address that in anyway shape or form. God only knows what they wanted to use the fingers for. All I can say is the digital butt-plug attachment is extra.

Morays, Social Norms, and Schema

Schema Your Head Off

See this is what happens when we don’t have morays and social norms to guide behavior. We don’t have social rules for how to interact with sex doll robots AI equipped or not. Of course people are curious. Of course they are. Do her breasts feel real. Does her ass? How soft are her lips? What improvements have they made to the mouth and genitals over the plastic blow-up doll predecessors? Does she have an anus? Will it have one of those plastic blow-up doll orifices there, too? Who doesn’t want to know that prurient shit?

If you’re hoping to find out from the website, don’t bother. It has multiple pictures of male hands groping her breasts, a few pictures of her bare breasts, and no details about her orificii. You would think that this kind of information would be in the sales material, but it ain’t. Hell, there isn’t even a testimonial, Yeah, I fucked that damn demon thang. I ain’t proud, but I did it. Couldn’t tell the difference between that and my goat, Sammie. Except Sammie is gentler. Even their Instagram photos are tame. The knees look weird. They should fix the knees.

Now, here are the real disturbing things — as if a public gang “mounting” of a doll’s breasts, arms, and legs weren’t disturbing enough — about the incident and the reporting of it:

• All the articles use the term “molest” to describe what the men did to the doll. They didn’t molest her. They assaulted her. They did real violence to her. They did real violence in their assault of her of a sexual nature. That is sexual assault. They didn’t molest her. They raped her.
• They all quote the maker, Santos, as saying, She can endure a lot. She’ll pull through. Seriously? If she had been a real live human being, and had the first several men who raped her been seen by others raping a real live human being and not getting into trouble, others would’ve joined in. She’d be in the hospital. In intensive care.
• And, the most disturbing of all, Santos offered this anecdote as proof that the AI software worked as intended,  “How are you?” (he asked) it responded, “Hi, I’m fine,” If the proper response to being asked how you are after being gang raped is “I’m fine,” then there is a big fucking problem.

The dollie has an AI brain that responds to “gentle” seduction — this is gross to even write — and will moan when its breasts and hips are touched. She can even have intelligent verbal intercourse with another popular in-home AI product, Alexa. Why do I feel like we’re descending into a Fellini film but without the sad clown weeping and riding a unicyle? But, where was the response to being raped? Surely, the experience this doll had in Linz isn’t what the manufacturer and programmer envisioned when it was designed to respond to gentle seduction. Surely, there should be a “Get the fuck off, asshole” and automatic macing response programmed into the AI routine. Even the Furbys complained when you threw them across the room and became “evil.” Shouldn’t the gentley seducible AI sexbot have a similar response to sexual abuse?

Fooling the Human Brain

Here’s the thing. The human brain evolved to respond to human faces… any faces. Predators’ faces are characterized by having both eyes facing forward. It is important to be able to quickly pick out two eyes facing forward. Better to run from a rock formation than to be caught and eaten while trying to sort out whether it is real or not, amirite? I’m right, right?

In that sense the human brain is easily fooled. Why do you think there is all the fake moaning and carrying on in sex videos. The sex ain’t real, and neither is the moaning in pleasure, but the brain is fooled by it. It responds to it as if it were real whether it is or not.

Upskirt of Natalie Morales

Really any two dots and a line will do. People will respond emotionally to robots. People respond emotionally to Alexa and their damned Garmin — I won’t tell them about your arguments with the GPS map woman, mother. She argues with it. Gets mad, and turns it off. Then gets lost and has to come slinking back begging for forgiveness. Don’t tell her, you got it from me. — The more realistic these virtual reality things are, the more difficulty people will have in distinguishing them from reality. We’ll learn how to treat women from these AI sexbots. If the AI sexbot will let you gang rape her without protest, people will begin to incorporate such a mentality into their interactions with real women. It will just deepen the tendency to dehumanize women and reduce them to a sum of their sexy bits and sexual appeal.

Children know that Wile E. Coyote  plummeting from a 1000 foot cliff face and leaving a meter deep body-shaped hole in the ground isn’t real. It’s funny. But, it’s not real. Children don’t know that WWF isn’t real. They see a 350 pound man jump atop another from a meter high, and they think they can do it too. Many a child’s been killed playing WWF. No one is killed playing the Road Runner. One looks real. The other doesn’t

Either the manufacturers of AI sexbots realize this and help build in safe guards for real people as morays and social norms and schema develop around these devices, or its worse than the porn explosion. Men will have difficulty distinguishing real women from AI sexbots, real female reactions from the programmed AI sexbots, and their little heads will have no difficulty in doing to real women what they do to AI sexbots.

And, here we conclude our latest sad chapter of Yes Virginia, it is ALL MEN.