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

 

 

 

 

Common in [[Cyberpunk]] settings.

A [[Sub-Trope]] of [[Robosexual]].

 

 

== Anime and Manga ==

** 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.

*** Especially when the team are leering over the Major's [[Absolute Cleavage]] [[Sexy Backless Outfit]] dress, then get [[Hypocritical Humor|immediately indignant]] when one of the guests feels her up.

** The kicker, however, is that she's still not quite able to disobey her programming, and so will incorporate a sex act into any problem she attempts to solve. [[Hilarity Ensues]], as the [[Innocent Cohabitation|male lead]] is trying to save himself for his girlfriend.

* ''Malice@doll'' is a CG anime that revolves around a group of robotic prostitutes who everyday walk their routes and ply their trade despite the fact that humans vanished a very long time ago, the Earth's resources are almost all gone, are divided to the machines by their importance, without customers the sex robots sit at the bottom of the rug and don't get squat. Their disappointment is voiced to the other robots by their dominatrix unit.

** A similar situation occurs in the second season with a [[Shotacon|Shota]] Doll. Though not out right stated, this is the implied use for him.

* [[Mezzo Forte]]: {{spoiler|In the second episode of the OAV, the two thugs having sex with Mikura, who thought she is real, is revealed later that it's a robot.}}

* ''[[Absolute Boyfriend]]'' Night is one accidentally ordered by the main character, who can't send it back.

* ''[[The Big O]]'' has Roger being accused of having a relationship like this with [[Robot Girl|Dorothy]]. It's typically [[Played for Laughs]].

* 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.}}

 

* ''Superman/Batman'' #26 shows us sexbots of the female [[Teen Titans (Comic Book)|Teen Titans]], belonging to the teenage Toyman (''not'' the original villainous version). And Superboy clearly enjoys them. Yeah...

* PJ Maybe in ''[[Judge Dredd]]'' seems to be in a committed relationship with a sexbot named Inga, who when they're not shagging sometimes helps him kill people.

* 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 titular housewives in ''[[The Stepford Wives]]'' are submissive robots programmed to replace the "imperfect" (read: [[Hollywood Homely|not pretty enough]], too feminist) wives of the men of Stepford. The 2004 remake {{spoiler|changes this to simply [[Brainwashed|brainwashing]] the women and implanting mind-control chips in their head, plus giving them plastic surgery}}.

** Oddly in the original novel it was mentioned that sexual contact with androids (the word "replicant" comes from the movie) is illegal, and having android lovers is considered sexual deviancy. It's vaguely implied that this might have something to do with battling against low birthrates, but no explicit reason for illegalizing sexbots is given, except to add a new layer of moral conflict to the protagonist.

* The Fembots from ''[[Austin Powers]]''. [[Killer Robot|Or so their victims are meant to think]].

* The titular character from ''[[Cherry 2000]]''.

* ''[[Dracula]] 3000'', a terrible space vampire flick without Dracula, at the end Aurora and Humvee accept their doom, Aurora reveals she used to be a sex robot so Humvee picks her up and the ships explodes in a very poor special effect.

** And a little later we have this gem:

* In a manner of speaking, Persephone from ''[[The Matrix]]''. [[Word of God]] is that her purpose was to solicit "donations" of genetic material from men in the Matrix before she deserted to be with the Merovingian. Mouse offers to set Neo up with The Girl In The Red Dress in the same capacity.

* ''[[Westworld]]'' has some robots that are "sex models."

* 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 ==

* The main character of ''Saturn's Children'' by [[Charles Stross]] is a sexbot, in a solar system which entirely lacks the actual human beings she's programmed to be attracted to. This creates [[Driven to Suicide|major angst in her model line]], as the sexbots feel they don't have a purpose.

* In the ''[[Apprentice Adept]]'' series, sexbots are just one of many purpose-built robots available to the Citizen class, though mostly those with specific tastes go for robots over the more easily acquired (and cheaper) human Serfs.

* Sexbots are one of the many types of robots made by the major corporation in ''[[The Sherwood Game]]'' by [[Esther Friesner]]. The [[Robin Hood]] program is downloaded into one of these bodies.

* 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.}}

 

== 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.

* The ship avatars in ''[[Andromeda]]'' aren't explicitly designed for this, but it's implied that they can be made "fully functional". There's also at least one known sexual relationship between an avatar (Jill Pierce/the ''Pax Magellanic'') and her captain.

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

 

== 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.

'''C8-42''': [[You Do NOT Want to Know|You don't want to know...]] }}

** Bring Canderous for this bit. He NAILS the [[squick]] ideas this scene conjures better that Carth's and Bastila's banter.

* 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.

*** [[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?"

** 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.

* Referenced in ''[[Girl Genius]]'' with regard to one of many [[Mad Scientist]]s. "His taste in women was...let's just say he was lucky he could build his own."

** 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 ==

 

== Western Animation ==

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