content: Although others disagree with you, I actually do agree with you. There's a line here, and it has nothing to do with robots. If we were to emulate a human, then I would disagree with you. If we created an intelligent robot that was basically another implementation of the human specification, then it could be sex and it could be a person. At that point, we'll have basically recreated the human woman because we feel that inventing one and creating it might give us something better, something we have control over. Perhaps the societal problems of that will be more than I envision, though. This thing he was "having sex" with was a form of masturbation. There's some problems with that in our current society, it isn't healthy. This won't stop these problems, but force even more reclusive people and even more societal problems. It's just a more effective sex toy. I don't particularly care if someone has one, but I do agree with your observations of its effects and its reality. I don't like it, personally.