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WCDT Strips 3071 to 3075 (19th - 23rd October 2K15)
cesium133:
Well, there is that Jude Law model... :psyduck:
Neko_Ali:
Artificial sex aids existed long before AIs and AnthroPCs. :) I was referring more to romantic attraction between AIs and humans though. It's always been part of QC that the actual mechanics of sexy times are not a subject of conversation. We may see a scene and say 'yup, they're gonna have sex' and another scene that says 'yup, they boned'. But never a scene that shows or discusses the mechanics of it.
bhtooefr:
Honestly, it wouldn't surprise me if May were a lesbian - she's had a long track record of making sexualized comments towards both human and AI women in the comic, and she's been depicted as being disgusted by the idea of at least human male anatomy (Dale's, in particular).
I also wonder how an AI would react if their gender bit were flipped. Jeph's writings about AI gender were before his current knowledge of trans* issues (or even his current stance on AI civil rights), and I wouldn't be surprised if, if given the chance, Jeph would retcon that (he's certainly retconned a lot of other things about AI civil rights)... But, even back then, AIs had a distinctly separate gender identity versus presentation, which is what brought up that whole discussion. I do suspect that it's now seen as distinctly unethical for an AI's companion to flip that gender bit if the mechanic still exists, and I wouldn't be surprised if it's now actually immutable so even the AI can't change it (because a chassis change is possible). Although, then, there's genderfluidity that could come into play...
hedgie:
An AI would certainly be more likely to be binary, though.
Neko_Ali:
Even in the original robot gender comic they referred to them having three settings. Male, Female and Neither.
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