I’ve Fallen In Love With My Ipod! If Only it Had a Dildo Attached

But now, in an age of lifelike non-animated sex dolls and robotic technology that can do just about anything, the dream is getting pretty close to being a reality. We've already debated whether having sex with a robot hooker would be considered infidelity, but let's pull back a little bit here: Is robot sex even a road humanity wants to travel? Some might say sex robots are just the next class of sex toys -- and people seem to have emerged from the age of the vibrator unscathed.

In his thesis, "Intimate Relationships with Artificial Partners," Levy conjectures that robots will become so human-like in appearance, function and personality that many people will fall in love with them, have sex with them and even marry them.

"It may sound a little weird, but it isn't," Levy said. "Love and sex with robots are inevitable."

...In 2006, Henrik Christensen, founder of the European Robotics Research Network, predicted that people will be having sex with robots within five years, and Levy thinks that's quite likely. There are companies that already sell realistic sex dolls, "and it's just a matter of adding some electronics to them to add some vibration," he said, or endowing the robots with a few audio responses. "That's fairly primitive in terms of robotics, but the technology is already there."