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Nick Redfern, I think you read that you started thinking about the possibilities of sex with robots, not for you, but as a topic for the book,

in part in response to the movie Blade Runner, where you have the character Pruss, who is a sex worker, a pleasure worker for a humanoid sort of Android kind of a creature.

I guess you could call her a robot.

You make a chapter about that and the possibilities work and lead sex with robots, it's going to happen, right?

Oh yeah, I mean it has gone ahead in the past.

But today's a far more sophisticated, but for me, you know, I like women to have skin, you know, not copper or aluminum or something like that.

But joking aside, I think we will see a development and a far more sophisticated dolls, if you like, or robots, whatever you want to call them.

And one of the people who was really fascinated by this was the late Mac Tony's who wrote a really good book on Mars.

And I'll just give you a quote of what he said for the book.

I can easily foresee companies selling as many theme robots as there are sexual kinks.

Robotic lovers, perhaps complemented by virtual reality, will allow people to live out whatever fantasies they want, surprising realism.

Every even further ahead, I also think that the sexual revolution will blur the lines of sexuality, gay, lesbian, by or whatever may become somewhat outdated.

And he also says, some sex robots might even be reproductions of celebrities.

I guess that would be pretty entertaining just to watch, you know.

Those would be the expensive ones, I guess.

I think that he was probably right in writing about this, you know, that you think about lonely people, older people, people who don't think of themselves as very attractive or who are alone.

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