...As you read this, somewhere a man is purchasing the Chasey Lain Cyberskin ... well, I can't write the rest of the name of this device in the newspaper. Suffice to say that the object in question is molded directly from the naughty bits of a porn star named Chasey Lain for the purpose of sexual congress.

I know this is happening because I sold such devices while working in an adult store in Tempe, Ariz. – reportage, if you will, for an upcoming book, "America Unzipped."

I also sold vibrators, dildos, foam breasts, dozens of different gizmos to many more people than you might think. So, when David Levy makes the case that sometime in the future (he thinks it'll be about 40 years from now) people will have sex with robots, I say you can bank on it.

In "Love + Sex With Robots," Levy seems to expect lots of resistance to this idea, but we have been fantasizing about it at least since the days of "Pygmalion." The robot in Fritz Lang's "Metropolis" is still one of the sexiest females in movie history. An artist named Hajime Sorayama has been creating fetishized renderings of "gynoids" for a while now, and if any one of them ever did come to "life" there'd be a line of eager devotees waving credit cards outside the gynoid factory. Web sites like The Fembot Chronicles already pant at the prospect. And, as was recently reported in these pages, San Marcos-based Abyss Creations has been providing silicone love for about a decade in the form of life-size dolls costing upward of $6,500. ...

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I guess this is like hiring strike-breakers when the union gets uppity or somp'n....(ducks and exits stage right).


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