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** This is also brought up in one of the short stories concerning Susan Calvin, where she is trying to figure out what happened with a robot that seduced its owner's wife (apparently it was trying to do something about the wife's self-worth issues, in accordance with the First Law's edict to not permit humans to come to harm through inaction). Of course, the problem in the long run was that while robots can't fall in love - women do. |
** This is also brought up in one of the short stories concerning Susan Calvin, where she is trying to figure out what happened with a robot that seduced its owner's wife (apparently it was trying to do something about the wife's self-worth issues, in accordance with the First Law's edict to not permit humans to come to harm through inaction). Of course, the problem in the long run was that while robots can't fall in love - women do. |
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* ''Silver Metal Lover'': It's a major plot point, because it's the reason used to destroy the eponymous robot - if he were functioning properly, the protagonist wouldn't want to have sex with him. Or so the Bureaucracy's reasoning goes. {{spoiler|In actuality, they destroy him because he's acquired a soul and it terrifies them that he's acting more human than the humans themselves.}} |
* ''Silver Metal Lover'': It's a major plot point, because it's the reason used to destroy the eponymous robot - if he were functioning properly, the protagonist wouldn't want to have sex with him. Or so the Bureaucracy's reasoning goes. {{spoiler|In actuality, they destroy him because he's acquired a soul and it terrifies them that he's acting more human than the humans themselves.}} |
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* ''Planetary Trilogy'': This is one of the two horrifying perversions attributed to inhabitants of the Moon in [[C. S. |
* ''Planetary Trilogy'': This is one of the two horrifying perversions attributed to inhabitants of the Moon in [[C. S. Lewis]]'s series. (The other horrifying perversion is birth control.) <!-- Let's not pothole that to "What Do You Mean It's Not Heinous?" unless we move it to the YMMV page. For Catholics, it is heinous. --> |
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* George Martin's ''[[Wild Cards]]'' feature Modular Man, a [[Ridiculously Human Robot]] built by a hyperinventive Ace scientist, and considered an actual Ace by others. Modular Man is shaped like a male supermodel, fully functional in regards of this trope, and pretty popular with the ladies. His creator then uses the memory cache [[Power Perversion Potential|for porn]], to Mod' Man's grief. |
* George Martin's ''[[Wild Cards]]'' feature Modular Man, a [[Ridiculously Human Robot]] built by a hyperinventive Ace scientist, and considered an actual Ace by others. Modular Man is shaped like a male supermodel, fully functional in regards of this trope, and pretty popular with the ladies. His creator then uses the memory cache [[Power Perversion Potential|for porn]], to Mod' Man's grief. |
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* Played with in ''[[The Alchemy of Stone]]'': The [[Clock Punk|clockwork]] [[Robot Girl]] protagonist, Mattie, is ''not'' physically capable of having sex, but certain aspects of her mechanism that have no direct connection to sex eventually take on symbolically sexual meanings for her. Eventually some of this peculiar sexuality is made quite explicit in her interactions with other characters. |
* Played with in ''[[The Alchemy of Stone]]'': The [[Clock Punk|clockwork]] [[Robot Girl]] protagonist, Mattie, is ''not'' physically capable of having sex, but certain aspects of her mechanism that have no direct connection to sex eventually take on symbolically sexual meanings for her. Eventually some of this peculiar sexuality is made quite explicit in her interactions with other characters. |
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