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[[File:robotgirl2.jpg|frame|[[wikipedia:Hajime Sorayama|Admit it]], you'd tap that.]]

 

 

{{quote|''Programming the sexbots to enjoy sex seemed a sensible move at the time, but we didn't realize the consequences of their developing fetishes.''|''[[xkcd]]'' #595: [http://xkcd.com/595/ Android Girlfriend] ([[Alt Text]])}}

 

{{noreallife|we have not developed any artificial intelligence that convincingly simulates a human companion.}} Any product marketed as a sex robot in this day and age is merely a sex doll.

 

== Anime and Manga ==

* ''[[Ghost in the Shell]]'' has them in nearly all incarnations. One ends up apprehending her owner for the police, some were used for combat ([[Cat Fight]]) but weren't very successful... The Sexoids are generally associated with perverts and Canadians in [[Ghost in the Shell]]. (Sorry, couldn't resist.)

** There is a funny episode in the second season of the series where the Major has to impersonate Chief Aramaki's sex doll for a party of rich pervs (they were going to arrest the host for embezzling), and the rest of the crew comment on how the old man is enjoying it way too much.

* In the [[Mai-Otome]] manga, Miyu the MAID has these capabilities, with abilities such as increasing the size of her breasts to match even [[Gag Boobs|Erstin Ho]], and supposedly being able to accommodate both genders and any sexual preference. Miyu's adaptability is fortunate for her, because Alyssa's plans to win the competition between the MAIDs and Otomes involve Miyu seducing the [[Wholesome Crossdresser]] Mashiro.

* Mitsukazu Mihara's ''DOLL'' series regularly featured a sexaroid-type DOLL. People can either buy sexaroids, or have their [[Dolls]] remodelled (illegally) to suit their own perverse tastes. One story in particular focused on two sexaroids, Veronica (with a female body and male genitalia) and her nameless partner (male body with female genitalia). The two spend their time being used and abused, the more owners they have means their value wears off. The nameless doll grows more disturbed by their emotionally devoid life, until Veronica is finally killed by their latest owner. {{spoiler|The nameless doll is bought by Ichiro, the reoccurring DOLL remodeller, and we discover he's really the companion that Ichiro had been working with for the previous two novels. By the end of the series, the nameless doll gains a new name: Itsuki.}}

 

== Comic Books ==

* A story in the very first issue of ''[[Mad Magazine|MAD]]'' was set in a [[Zeerust]] future where "disposable prefabricated robot women" are purchasable from vending machines. [[Getting Crap Past the Radar|Alhough what they are used for is never explicitly stated]], the main character pointedly observes: "Have you noticed how less and less men are getting married, and more and more of these robot women are being sold?"

* In ''[[Ironwood]]'' Fantasia Faust is an iron golem. After serving her creator's original purpose of ridding his land of faeries, he found other uses for her, including as a lover. She is enchanted with illusions so complete that a person can be ravaged by Fantasia without ever realising that she isn't made entirely of soft, warm, forgiving flesh, and subtle but effective neuromancies to entice anything with a steady pulse to desire her.

 

== Films -- Live-Action ==

* The android from ''[[Friday the 13th (film)]]'' (the space-opera installment of ''[[Friday the 13th (film)|Friday the 13 th]]'') is implied to be her owner's sexual partner, although she proves more useful as an [[Action Girl]] after she gets [[Took a Level in Badass|Upgraded To Badass]].

* Though it wasn't stated onscreen, [[Robo Brenda]] from the 1999 film version of ''[[Inspector Gadget]]'' was one of these: a ditzier version of Brenda (Gadget's creator) with enhanced breasts and a skintight purple bodysuit. The novelization (a kids' tie-in) gives her a line where she states that she's Scolex's "pleasure unit." Understandably, the real Brenda is more than slightly horrified.

 

== Literature ==

* In the Dutch SF story "Pairpuppets" ("Paarpoppen," translated and anthologized in ''The Best from the Rest''), lots of people are buying "pairpuppets," which are just what you'd think. The protagonist is kind of tired of them, and meets a real, flesh-and-blood woman. {{spoiler|They have sex in a ditch. Then she tells him she's a new model, thanks him for product-testing her, and says she'll return herself to the factory.}}

* ''[[Kiln People]]'' by David Brin is about a world where people can download their personality—suitably edited according to what task they want to do—into clay 'golems', e.g black golems are all logic and focus and are used for intense study, green golems are happy to do boring household tasks, while white golems are highly sensual as they are used for sex. The protagonist's girlfriend has to go on a trip, and leaves a white golem packed away in the freezer "in case you get lonely."

 

== Live-Action TV ==

* There was an episode of ''[[The Twilight Zone]]'' where the protagonist was a prisoner on an asteroid, and the supply ship brings him an android female. He was far too emotional over leaving her behind for someone simply having a machine as a companion (sort of like the woman who follows The Doctor or someone who he simply talks to). His response was more-or-less exactly what you'd expect they'd react if their lover/wife had to be left behind.

** Since she apparently had fully-human intelligence and emotional responses, this enters [[What Measure Is a Non-Human?]] territory.

'''Rommie''': So when you handled certain parts of me, did you wear gloves? }}

* Warren's Sex Bot April, and the BuffyBot he built for Spike, in ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]''.

** On the other hand John shows little if any interest in her that way. Cameron flirts with him when they first meet, feels threatened by Riley and even strips off and lies next to him, saying she knows his life can be lonely. Of course she might have just been manipulating him, but there was also how she overrides her programming to terminate him.

** The concept wasn't lost on the writers of ''[[Robot Chicken]],'' and they gave [https://web.archive.org/web/20120730062127/http://video.adultswim.com/robot-chicken/the-sarah-connor-chronicles.html it the parody it deserved.]

 

== Music ==

* Lenny Kravitz's song ''Black Velveteen'' is this trope played as satire - the robot described not only guarantees you disease-free sex, it will ''do the dishes'' as well.

* "Herr Drosselmeyer's Doll" by [[Abney Park]].

 

== Tabletop Games ==

* ''[[Eclipse Phase]]'' has "pleasure pods" who are partially biological and can change genders at will. It's also possible for transhumans to [[Brain Uploading|sleeve]] into one.

 

* ''[[Mass Effect 3]]'' has {{spoiler|EDI become this}}.

* He wasn't designed as a Sexbot, but C8-42 from ''[[Knights of the Old Republic]]'' becomes a [[Replacement Goldfish]] for his owner's late husband.

* One of the puzzles in ''[[Leisure Suit Larry]]: Love for Sail'' is how to get the top score by pleasuring a love robot.

* One of goods in ''[[Vega Strike]]'' is "Pleasure Borgs" (Specialty Goods:Entertainment category). Complete with low-res photo, also presented with a list of models for several species in one [[Loading Screen]] -- [[Fictional Media|ads]] of "Shmrn Medical Consortium", along with proper medical stuff.

** The player can try it out themself before bringing it back to the buyer.

{{quote|'''Fisto''': ASSUME THE POSITION.}}

*** [[Squick|If the name is any indicator...]]

 

* A robot prostitute is a significant supporting character in the webcomic ''[[Saturnalia]].''

* In ''[[Angels 2200]]'', Lance is a male sexbot, whom no one on the all-female ship wants to use, because, in the words of one character, "Who would want to use a communal dildo?"

* Averted in [[Megatokyo]]. Even though Ping is a prototype of the Emotional Doll System and meant to be used with [[Dating Sim]]s, she is specifically a "non-H" model. [http://megatokyo.com/strip/1174 Suggesting she is] is her [[Berserk Button]].

** However, she ''is'' "[http://megatokyo.com/strip/1175 actually built so I could... go that far. If I wanted to. But that part of me belongs to me. It's not part of any game.]" And if a user gets pushy, then that's what the [[Super-Powered Robot Meter Maids|built-in superpowers]] are for.

* [[David Gonterman]] . . . not Gonterman himself (...), but his comics.

* ST-1X (Sticks) from ''[[SSDD]]'' is a rare male example, one with [http://www.poisonedminds.com/d/19990927.html 25 different attachments and knows 285 different positions] and "looks like he escaped a Swiss porno film". The author even [http://www.poisonedminds.com/d/20011217.html covered] the contradiction between requirements of recharge socket, all-natural shape and, ah, variety of customer tastes.

* ASCII of ''[[Umlaut House]]'' probably wasn't designed as a sex bot (then again he was made by [[Flamboyant Gay|Rick]]), but one of the various jobs he had while his memory was damaged was a male prostitute. And his "father" has multiple "fully functional" prosthetic bodies, one of which was "borrowed" by [[Anything That Moves|Volair]].

* The [[Robot Girl]] Penelope of [[Just Another Webcomic]] was meant to do more but her sex programming has loaded first and most of the rest wasn't finished.

** Mind you, it wasn't specified whether they were robotic "clanks" or biological "constructs".

* In ''[[Nine Planets Without Intelligent Life]]'', the development of sexbots actually results in the total abandonment of conventional relationships and the end of humanity.

 

== Web Originals ==

* While no sex is shown,<ref>so get your brains out of the gutter</ref> [[The Nostalgia Chick]] recently got a coffee-making, dish-drying [[Sex Slave]] robot that she can control with a <s> TV Remote</s> tazer. To say the robot isn't particularly happy or well-treated would be understating it.

 

== Western Animation ==

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