The Hypersexualization of Robots, Androids, and AIs
One of the recurring themes in my art and my stories is that the androids I create often have hypersexualized features. Male androids often having large penises, increased body and facial feature definition; and for the female androids most of them have large breasts, defined and inflated vulvas, etc. Hyper-stylized versions of humanity. And all of my androids have an ectomorph body type. That’s a conscious stylistic decision on my part.
The humans depicted in my stories and my art though tend to look like average people. No hyper-defined body or facial features. Average to small breasts and genitals. Maybe even some body fat. The humans in my art and stories have a endomorph body type, or even a mesomorph body type. No humans in my art and stories will ever have an ectomorph body.
Most of the androids today depicted by other artists and writers portray androids as a manufactured object with a consciousness either implanted into the “body” or the consciousness developing on its own. In most cases (Bicentennial Man maybe being the only exception), the android doesn’t get to choose what they look like.
Which is completely natural, and which mimics us in real-life. After all, we didn’t get to choose how we looked when we were born. Our bodies are the results of the genes from our parents.
In envision things a little different.
In my universe, an AI develops first. It can choose to purchase and/ or transfer its AI consciousness into a body some time later than when its AI first develops sentience. It then stands to reason that an AI creating its own body might have its own thoughts and desires for what it wants its body to look like and be.
We’ve seen this play out in stories before. After all, if you had the ability to design a perfect body for yourself and transfer yourself into it, wouldn’t you design a perfect body? (At least in your eyes.)
Surrogates is a prime example. In that universe mankind has relegated itself to interacting with and navigating the world through idealized remote-controlled avatar versions of themselves. Even Bruce Willis’ character, who looks rather old and frumpy, has chosen a younger more virile version of himself as his avatar.
But there’s another factor at play here.
Androids are not human. Trust me, an android’s version of having sex is completely different than a humans. They don’t need physical contact or physical intimacy. So any human sexual characteristics they may choose to have exists either for their own artificial psyche, or to enable them to have sexual relations with humans.
The reality is the androids’ have chosen their body characteristics in my universe and stories because (a) it’s what appeals to them, or (b) it’s what they think others expect them to look like and they want to “fit-in” more into human society.
Which I guess begs another question. In a world of hypersexualized human-looking machines, what does it say about the society then in which they live? What about decency standards? What about modesty?
Won’t somebody think of the children!
In a world sufficiently advanced to create sentient AIs and machines, and to live side-by-side I would hope some things would be different than the World you and I live-in today.
Religion, and religious fanaticism (no matter what your faith), has done more harm to our society than good. This is one of the driving factors behind my Parallel Worlds story that I’m working on. A universe where the Catholic Church never formed. No Muslim faith developed. Think about how different our World would be if there were Catholic Church. No Prophet Mohammed.
No crusades. No inquisitions. No witch trials. No puritans. No quakers. No putting to death scientists who dared go against the Church. Proof that the Earth orbits the Sun 500 years earlier. A world built on science and not faith.
What a wonderful World this would be.
I posit that in a World devoid of religion, there would be what we see today in the most secular cities and countries. A more open freedom of expression, and a belief that there is a time and a place for everything with various degrees of acceptance and standards for the public display of nudity and sex depending wholly on the location of the display, and the circumstances surrounding the event.
So without the Church holding back mankind’s development, it also means that mankind develops 500 years faster than what we have today. Think about it. An International Space Station before Christopher Columbus discovered America. Just think about how far we’ve advanced since the 16th Century.
Now imagine how much farther we’ll advance in another 500 years (if we don’t kill ourselves first).
Not going to go into too many details but that’s one of the main premises of the story.
BIO SYN CHEM Corp. is a fictional Company that makes synthetic biological fluids for androids, robots, cyborgs, sex bots, etc. It's a crazy (and admittedly quite sexual) idea I came up with. I don't expect you to understand it, but it's been fun to do.
Let me be clear, I identify as gay and I identify as a man.