The Samantha sex doll.[Photo/geek.com]
Social media in Kenya is abuzz with talk of a female doll called Samatha and her ability to fulfill a man’s wildest sexual fantasizes without the drudgery that comes with maintaining a relationship such as the occasional flowers, chocolate, and endless dinners.
As the conversation about sex dolls, both male and female are starting to take shape in Kenya, in the West the rise of the digisexuals people who are interested in having sex with robots has already taken form.
Experts from the University of Manitoba in Canada are already warning that there will soon be a surge in the number of people whose emotional and sexual appetites will be almost entirely satisfied by the virtual world (read sex robots).
A report by Paris based firm, Havas suggests that in future over a quarter of 18 and 34-year-olds will find it normal to form a friendship and even relationships with robots instead of humans.
Though no local research has been conducted on the impact these growing trend will have on the relationship between a man and a woman, the topic has raised a spectrum of views.
For some men having a ‘woman’ who will not nag, call or text every minute asking when they will be home, will never grow old, never feign a headache when they are not in the mood and has skin that is 150 per cent softer than the average woman is an answered prayer.
For some women, this is the first real threat to their survival. Back then, when you got married, you stayed married and were loyal. Now people cheat on each other; they lie and do things behind each other’s back.
So for a man who’s already foreseeing a messy marriage, this makes perfect sense as technology has finally found a way to ease men the burden of dealing with feminism and over-empowered women.