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<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>By its enthusiasts, robot fetishism is more commonly referred to by the initials ASFR.  This acronym stems from the now defunct [[newsgroup]] ''alt.sex.fetish.robots''. Many devotees of this fetish refer to themselves as technosexual<sup><small>[2][3]</small></sup>, or as "ASFRians".<sup><small>[1]</small></sup> ASFR can be divided into two distinct but sometimes overlapping types of fantasies.<sup><small>[4][3][2]</small></sup></div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>By its enthusiasts, robot fetishism is more commonly referred to by the initials ASFR.  This acronym stems from the now defunct [[newsgroup]] ''alt.sex.fetish.robots''. Many devotees of this fetish refer to themselves as technosexual<sup><small>[2][3]</small></sup>, or as "ASFRians".<sup><small>[1]</small></sup> ASFR can be divided into two distinct but sometimes overlapping types of fantasies.<sup><small>[4][3][2]</small></sup></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div># "Wrong Turns Down The Sex-Info-Highway 5.07", by Martine Duplessis, ''Exotic Magazine'', 1996 [http://www.xmag.com/archives/5-07-jan98/sexhiway.html (web page)]</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div># "Wrong Turns Down The Sex-Info-Highway 5.07", by Martine Duplessis, ''Exotic Magazine'', 1996 [http://www.xmag.com/archives/5-07-jan98/sexhiway.html (web page)]</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div># "Remote Control: Romancing the Robot" (clip only), ''SexTV'' documentary episode featuring interviews with members of the ASFR community [http://www.sextelevision.net/videoplayer/?segmentID=401&n=1 (streaming video)]</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div># "Remote Control: Romancing the Robot" (clip only), ''SexTV'' documentary episode featuring interviews with members of the ASFR community [http://www.sextelevision.net/videoplayer/?segmentID=401&n=1 (streaming video)]</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>'''Robot fetishism''' (also '''ASFR''' or '''technosexuality''') is a [[fetishism|fetishistic]] attraction to humanoid or non-humanoid robots; also to people acting like robots or people dressed in robot costumes. A less common fantasy involves transformation into a robot.  In these ways it is similar to '''statuephilia''', which involves attraction to or transformation into statues or mannequins.<sup><small>[1]</small></sup></div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>'''Robot fetishism''' (also '''ASFR''' or '''technosexuality''') is a [[fetishism|fetishistic]] attraction to humanoid or non-humanoid robots; also to people acting like robots or people dressed in robot costumes. A less common fantasy involves transformation into a robot.  In these ways it is similar to '''statuephilia''', which involves attraction to or transformation into statues or mannequins.<sup><small>[1]</small></sup></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="background: #ffa; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>'''Robot fetishism''' is <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">the name popularly used to describe </del>a [[fetishism|fetishistic]] attraction to humanoid or non-humanoid robots or people dressed in robot costumes. A <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">related fetish is [[agalmatophilia]], which involves attraction to mannequins or statues. A </del>common fantasy <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">related to these fetishes </del>involves transformation ''<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">into</del>'' <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">a robot, mannequin</del>, or <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">statue</del>.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>'''Robot fetishism''' <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">(also '''ASFR''' or '''technosexuality''') </ins>is a [[fetishism|fetishistic]] attraction to humanoid or non-humanoid <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">robots; also to people acting like </ins>robots or people dressed in robot costumes. A <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">less </ins>common fantasy involves transformation <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">into a robot.  In these ways it is similar to </ins>''<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">'statuephilia'</ins>'', <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">which involves attraction to </ins>or <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">transformation into statues or mannequins</ins>.<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline"><sup><small>[1]</small></sup></ins></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="background: #ffa; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">It is sometimes referred to by the initials ASFR, from the ''alt</del>.<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">sex.fetish.robots'' </del>[[<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">newsgroup</del>]].</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Robot fetishism can be viewed as a form of erotic anthropomorphism</ins>.<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline"><sup><small></ins>[<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">1]</small></sup> When transformation or roleplaying is involved it can be thought of as a form of erotic </ins>[<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[objectification</ins>]].<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline"><sup><small>[1][2]</small></sup></ins></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">By its enthusiasts, robot </ins>fetishism <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">is more commonly referred to by the initials ASFR.  This acronym stems from the now defunct [[newsgroup]] ''alt.sex.fetish.robots''. Many devotees of this fetish refer to themselves as technosexual<sup><small>[2][3]</small></sup>, or as "ASFRians".<sup><small>[1]</small></sup> ASFR </ins>can be <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">divided into two distinct but sometimes overlapping types </ins>of <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">fantasies.<sup><small></ins>[<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">4]</ins>[<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">3</ins>]<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[2</ins>]<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline"></small></sup></ins></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="background: #ffa; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>The <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">gynoid in Fritz Lang's film Metropolis </del>can be <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">viewed as an early example </del>of the <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">robot as fetish object</del>.  <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Frank Zappa</del>'<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">s classic concept album </del>''<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Joe</del>'<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">s Garage</del>'' <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">dealt with robot fetishism as a sort of </del>[[<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">perversion</del>]] <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">where the protagonist, "Joe", sinks into a life of sexual confusion and meaningless experimentation.  In ''Star Trek: The Next Generation'', the android, Data, was the object of sexual desire more than once up to actual sex and he was extensively programmed with numerous sexual techniques. </del></div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>The <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">first of these is simply a desire to have a ready-made android partner.  This partner </ins>can be <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">desired for sex, companionship, or any combination </ins>of the <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">two.  The main distinguishing feature of this fantasy is that the android is a completely artificial construct, manufactured solely to fulfil the wishes of its owner</ins>.  <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">This type of fantasy or situation is referred to as </ins>'''<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">built</ins>'''<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">.<sup><small></ins>[<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">3]</ins>[<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">1</ins>]<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[5</ins>]<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline"></small></sup></ins></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="background: #ffa; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>The [[<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">fetish artist]</del>] [<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[Hajime Sorayama</del>]<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">] is notable for his depiction of robots as erotic objects.</del></div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>The <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">second type of fantasy prevalent within ASFR is referred to as '''transformation'''.  This involves a human who has been either willingly or unwillingly turned into an android.  That person can be either oneself or one's partner, or both.  It is usually the process of transformation (through whatever means it is achieved) that is the focus of this fantasy.<sup><small></ins>[<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">3]</ins>[<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">1</ins>][<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">5</ins>]<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline"></small></sup></ins></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="background: #ffa; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">See also:</del></div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Many people in the ASFR community prefer either one or the other.<sup><small>[3][5][2]</small></sup>  In some cases this preference is very strong, and people can be as equally repelled by one type as they are attracted to the other.  In other cases, there is as much appreciation for built as there is for transformation.<sup><small>[4]</small></sup>  A recent informal survey of ASFR community members found that three fifths prefer built while the remainder prefer transformation or some combination of both.<sup><small>[6]</small></sup></ins></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="background: #ffa; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">* </del>[[<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Rubber fetishism</del>]<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">]</del></div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">The aspects of this fetish that are most appreciated by members of the ASFR community are greatly varied.  For some, things like robotic appearance, motion, or sound are important for arousal.<sup><small></ins>[<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">2]</small></sup>  For others, these are not, and a completely life-like android that appears to be human is desired.<sup><small></ins>[<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">4</ins>]<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline"></small></sup> This holds true for other aspects, such as sentience or self-awareness.  Often, the ability of the android to remove parts of its skin or other bodily appendages in order to reveal its circuitry are quite pleasing to some, but distasteful to others.<sup><small></ins>[<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">4</ins>]<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline"></small></sup>  There is a further divide between those who prefer an android to appear human-like and those who would prefer a more mechanical looking robot, i.e. made of metal.</ins></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="background: #ffa; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">== External links ==</del></div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">As realistic androids and humanoid robots do not currently exist in a form readily available to the consumer<sup><small>[2]</small></sup>, this fetish can only be acted upon in a limited number of ways.  Primarily this is done through fantasy, involving either [[Masturbation|self stimulation]] or [[Roleplay|sexual roleplaying]] with a partner.<sup><small>[4]</small></sup>  ASFR art is therefore important to aid in the reinforcement of imagination.<sup><small>[1]</small></sup></ins></div></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="background: #ffa; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">* </del>http://www.<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">sorayama</del>.<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">net</del>/</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Art with ASFR content includes but is not limited to science fiction movies, television shows, novels, short stories, illustrations, manipulated photographs, songs and even television commercials.<sup><small>[7]</small></sup>  Such works are sought after by technosexuals since economically viable androids are not yet available.  Realistic sex dolls such as the [</ins>http://www.<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">realdoll</ins>.<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">com/ RealDoll] remain the only concrete way to fully explore this fetish. However, recent developments in robotics and artificial intelligence, such as those seen in the [http://www.kokoro-dreams.co.jp/english/robot/act/index.html Actroid] or EveR-1 can only lead to the production of more advanced synthetic partners.<sup><small>[1][2]</small><</ins>/<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">sup></ins></div></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="background: #ffa; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>* http://www.<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">cyrune</del>.com/<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Metropolis</del>.html</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div> </div></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="background: #ffa; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">* </del>http://www.<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">sexuality</del>.<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">org</del>/<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">l</del>/<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">fetish/robofaq</del>.html</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">It is also worth noting that some ASFRians do not wish to use synthetic partners at all, and instead would prefer human partners to participate in forms of fantasy play.<sup><small>[4]</small></sup></ins></div></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="background: #ffa; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">* </del>http://www.<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">asfr</del>.<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">info</del>/<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">index</del>.php/<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Main_Page</del></div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div> </div></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="background: #ffa; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>* http://www.<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">many</del>-<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">realms</del>.<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">net</del>/</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">==Robot fetishism in popular culture==</ins></div></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="background: #ffa; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>* [http://www.p-synd.com/winterrose/<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">wrindex</del>.<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">htm </del>The Technosexuality, Pygmalionist &<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">amp; </del>Mind Control <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">fetish </del>FAQ (<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">mirror site</del>)]</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">References to this fetish can be seen in movies, television, music and magazines.  These range from the subtle to the obvious.  Robots and androids can be portrayed as attractive or sexy for no reason relevant to plot or background, or they can be specific objects of desire because of their artificiality.</ins></div></td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>* <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">The song "Electric Barbarella" (from Duran Duran's 1997 album ''Medazzaland'') focuses unambiguously on the topic. The lyrics tell of a man professing his love for a female robot. The video for the song features a fembot being purchased and moving in a machine-like way. It also features scenes of a panel on the robot's back being opened to allow its battery to be changed. Electronic circuitry and wires can then be seen inside.</ins></div></td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">* In the 2004 video for the song "Plug It In" (from Basement Jaxx's 2003 album ''Kish Kash'') two security guards activate some fembots after factory closing hours.  The immodestly dressed robots move in the stereotypical jerky and mechanical ways and end up malfunctioning to the point of severe damage due to the overzealousness of the two guards controlling them.</ins></div></td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">* In ''Star Trek: The Next Generation'', the android, Data, was the object of sexual desire more than once up to actual sex and was "fully functional" and "programmed with multiple techniques"</ins></div></td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">* The low budget 1981 science fiction film ''Escape from DS3'' (produced by Anne Spielberg) features female robots that are used as a plot device for a prison break.  In one scene, one of the robots has a large portion of her back removed, revealing complicated looking electronics underneath. The male lead is then heard to remark "You are so beautiful".</ins></div></td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">* Realistic sex robots are widely manufactured by robotics firms in the 2001 film ''A.I.''. A main character in the film is the mecha prostitute Gigolo Joe, played by Jude Law.</ins></div></td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">* In the 2005 movie ''Serenity'', the character Mr. Universe owns (and is married to) a companion robot, even though she is partly operated by a remote control unit and acts in an obviously machine-like way.</ins></div></td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">* ''Futurama'' has used the term "robosexual" as a synonym of technosexual in description of Fry and the Lucy Liu Android's robot fetishism relationship.</ins></div></td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">* The 1987 science fiction film ''Cherry 2000'' is about a man whose robotic love interest breaks beyond repair, after which he goes on a search for a replacement.</ins></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">* [[Cybersex]]</ins></div></td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">* [[Master/Slave]]</ins></div></td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">* [[Power exchange]]</ins></div></td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">* [[Roleplay]]</ins></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">==References==</ins></div></td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline"><small></ins></div></td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline"># "ASFR", documentary short by filmmaker Allison de Fren, 2004 [</ins>http://www.<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">ifilm</ins>.com/<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">ifilmdetail/2408202 (streaming video)]</ins></div></td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline"># "Let's mech love", by Lisa Scott, ''Metro daily paper'', 7 February 2007 [http://www.metro.co.uk/metrosexual/article</ins>.html<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">?in_article_id=36440&in_page_id=8#StartComments (web page)]</ins></div></td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline"># "Acting Like a Sex Machine", by Kate Hodges, ''Bizarre Magazine'', October 2004</ins></div></td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline"># "Deviant Desires: Incredibly Strange Sex", by Katharine Gates, Juno Books (October 1999), ISBN 1-890451-03-7 [</ins>http://www.<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">deviantdesires</ins>.<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">com</ins>/<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">map</ins>/<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">robots</ins>.html <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">(web page)] </ins></div></td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline"># "Remote Control: Romancing the Robot" (clip only), ''SexTV'' documentary episode featuring interviews with members of the ASFR community [</ins>http://www.<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">sextelevision</ins>.<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">net</ins>/<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">videoplayer/?segmentID=401&n=1 (streaming video)]</ins></div></td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline"># "Transformation vs. Built Poll", Fembot Central Message Board, Sept. 26, 2006 [http://www.fembotcentral.com/bbs/viewtopic</ins>.php<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">?t=4722 (web page)]</ins></div></td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline"># "Wrong Turns Down The Sex-Info-Highway 5.07", by Martine Duplessis, ''Exotic Magazine'', 1996 [http:</ins>/<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">/www.xmag.com/archives/5-07-jan98/sexhiway.html (web page)]</ins></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>* <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[</ins>http://www.<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">fembotcentral.com/bbs/ Fembot Central message board </ins>- <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">ASFR community hub]</ins></div></td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">* [http://www</ins>.<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">sexuality.org</ins>/<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">l/fetish/robofaq.html ASFR entry on sexuality.org]</ins></div></td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>* [http://www.p-synd.com/winterrose/<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">technosexuality</ins>.<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">html </ins>The Technosexuality, Pygmalionist & Mind Control <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Fetish </ins>FAQ <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">3.0]</ins></div></td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">* [http://www.nat.org/sexbots.pdf Sexually Interactive Autonomous Robots </ins>(<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Friedman and Kubat, M.I.T.</ins>)<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">]</ins></div></td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">* [http://sexuality.about.com/od/sexandtechnology/a/david_levy.htm Interview with David Levy, author of ''Robots Unlimited: Life in a Virtual Age''</ins>]</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="background: #ffa; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>The gynoid in Fritz Lang's film Metropolis can be viewed as an early example of the robot as fetish object.  Frank Zappa's classic concept album Joe's Garage dealt with robot fetishism as a sort of [[perversion]] where the protagonist, "Joe", sinks into a life of sexual confusion and meaningless experimentation.  In ''Star Trek: The Next Generation'', the android, Data, was the object of sexual desire more than once up to actual sex and he was extensively programmed with numerous sexual techniques.  </div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>The gynoid in Fritz Lang's film Metropolis can be viewed as an early example of the robot as fetish object.  Frank Zappa's classic concept album <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">''</ins>Joe's Garage<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">'' </ins>dealt with robot fetishism as a sort of [[perversion]] where the protagonist, "Joe", sinks into a life of sexual confusion and meaningless experimentation.  In ''Star Trek: The Next Generation'', the android, Data, was the object of sexual desire more than once up to actual sex and he was extensively programmed with numerous sexual techniques.  </div></td></tr>
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