sexbot
English
Etymology
sex + -bot
Noun
sexbot (plural sexbots)
- (science fiction) A robot designed to have sexual intercourse with humans.
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:sexbot
- 2000, Richard Rhodes, Visions of technology:
- Jealous wives may destroy sexbot rivals and sue the manufacturer.
- 2000, Joseph N Pelton, e-Sphere: the rise of the world-wide mind:
- Another way that virtual entertainment might go is in the direction of the so-called sexbot. This would be a robotic device with artificial skin […]
- 2002, Jason Sullivan, The Dark Yergall:
- Having a sexbot had turned out to be more than Nosir had anticipated.
- 2006, David N L Levy, Robots unlimited: life in a virtual age:
- Given that people become addicted to all sorts of pleasures from slot machines to e-mail, sexbot addiction might be inevitable […]
- 2021 July 25, Claire Armitstead, quoting Jeanette Winterson, “Jeanette Winterson: ‘The male push is to discard the planet: all the boys are going off into space’”, in The Guardian:
- Then, we have sexbots, which are based on 1950 stereotypes about how a woman should behave: acquiescent, willing, always ready and patient in the home. How can that combo of 50s behaviour and porn-star looks be good for us as Homo sapiens?
- A lifelike love doll integrated with robotics to simulate human body movements and intelligence.
Hyponyms
- malebot
- fembot
Anagrams
- box set, boxset