voltaic-resonance:

I know it’s usually done for convenience, but I don’t really like when robot characters just come pre-equipped with genitals and a completely normal sex drive. It raises too many questions for me. Who designed it and why? Who pulled all nighters ripping their hair out trying to debug the horny subroutines? How much did this add to the development cost? And like, I guess ‘factory made sex bot’ provides very sensible explanations for all of this, but that whole trope isn’t very appealing to me personally

I am, however, a big fan of robots who are like “oh the pussy? yeah I built this myself because I thought it’d be a cool engineering challenge. The base is just a fleshlight in my favorite color but I souped it up with a bunch of upgrades and LEDs. Some of the parts are technically illegal in the EU but who’s checking? Cool huh? It’s mostly done, I’m pretty much just experimenting and optimizing now. Making room for it did significantly decrease the structural stability of my pelvis but it’s so worth it”

or “yeah I want to have sex bc I want to experience intimacy of some sort and it sounds fun, but I don’t really wanna start cutting or welding to make that happen, so I just have this xbox controller I plug in and if you mash the buttons right I’ll come. It’s pretty convenient really. Wanna play mario kart”

or “look, I don’t have the time to explain the metaphorical and physical crossed wires and psychological mess of reward pathways that make this work for me, but if you immobilize me and reach all the way in there and gently loosen that wire until it starts sparking I am going to bust a metaphorical and physical nut”

or “horny? eh, I wouldn’t call it that. I just really like watching this one technician squirm and the strap-on is the easiest way to do it and keep them coming back”

get at least a little weird with it is what I’m saying!!!!! they would not be normal

Soooo true. If I was writing about physical robots I’d have so much fun with this

(with my fanfic about Tron programs I ended up going the route of “they have a sex drive for the same nebulous reason the other parts of their life seem to mystically echo their programmers… but it did end up connecting to an actual purpose within the computer system, it’s just not the same purpose a sex drive has for humans because that doesn’t apply in there”)

(i haven’t written much about the Grid in Legacy but I imagine this kind of …hackersexuality would be more prevalent there. Because they don’t have the same mirroring of programmers or the same reason for sex that I theorized for the programs in the original movie, and I’m not totally sure what they would have, and honestly probably not all the same thing, and some of them WOULD mess around with their own code to adapt that)