That is what I have. I can’t imagine giving it up for ‘bot.
And anyone who ‘has’ would be a fool. There isn’t a sexbot on the planet I would have traded my wife for, nor one that the finest minds of Silicon Valley and San Pornando could collaboratively come up with.
The thing is most do not haZ such riches. Never had and never will. Or what they haZ makes them wish they haZ not because of what society created for them to haZ. In short, they do not understand what they are missing and so do not go after it. They settle.
Thats because when you got what you have (and I’m in the same boat as you, I think) there were more limited options and a lesser perception of risk.
Again, look at what Jared Polis said. If I were an inbound college freshman I’d be absolutely terrified of dating. Look at what happens to men in divorces. If I were a young 20 something I’d be absolutely terrified of getting married.
I look back on both and really think that I lucked out. Not just because I see society as having shifted in the last 20-30 years but also because I know guys my own age who got completely screwed in both those types of scenarios. The former being much more rare then than today.
Given an upfront and new choice, rather than looking back retroactively and applying choices that didn’t exist, I completely get how a sexbot is going to be a more attractive option to a lot of men. Quite possibly an unsustainable, socially-destabilizing number of men.
The premise of the article isn’t that men who are in good relationships will give them up for a sexbot. The premise is that men who can’t find a good relationship (and that is pretty prevalent nowadays) will stop trying altogether if a sexbot is available as an alternative.