If we’d allowed designs for safe and small modular nuclear reactors to move forward water would not be an issue because desalination would be absurdly cheap.

But that ain’t what we did.

One must wonder: in the near future, will you be able to have sex with a robot, and then program it to say a slur to save humanity from nuclear destruction?

Damn I sure hope so! More seriously, her take on the whole thing was pretty wrongheaded because she is an attractive woman who can easily get sex any time she wants it.

Many people agreed with me but many people also disagreed. Some people said I was taking a “female-centric” view to sex and not accounting for just how happy men are to have sex without any consideration to whether the other person is into them. The rationale here is that the vast majority of men aren’t attractive to anyone, so for them it would be the difference between having “fake” sex or having no sex.

I was skeptical. I believe that there are fewer men considered sexually desirable than women, but I don’t think that so many men are considered sexually undesirable (especially in unfixable ways) that sex robots would appeal to the majority.

She was taking an extremely female-centric view, where sex is very, very easy to get. For the vast majority of men it’s extremely difficult to get sex 99% of the time.

To most men, 80% of women between 18-40 are sexually desirable (even if for only a one-night stand). To most women, 90%+ of men are sexually undesirable for anything at all.

This is the huge mismatch she (and most women also) fails to understand.

Indeed. Women’s idea of what men find attractive and what men actually find attractive is highly divergent. Obviously, not all men nor women are the same, blah blah blah.

What men find attractive (80%+): A woman who is fit and not obese, in normal to tight-ish regular clothes in minimal or minimal-looking makeup, not much perfume and not slathered with weird stinky lotion, and a smile. A simple sundress is super attractive to most men if you can pull it off (and in my experience, sundresses are very easy to pull off…oh, wait, what were we talking about here?).

What women think men find attractive (but is actually just intrasexual competition): An expensive evening dress, 2 hours of full-face makeup, four-inch heels, complicated lingerie, various high-end perfumes and lotions, and a bratty but stand-offish personality and affect.

Not many men actually find the latter attractive, though an absurdly-large number of women believe that is what most men find appealing. But it just ain’t true.