As IF Times

.Sex Robot – Roxxxy Rocky True Companion Robot – Cosmopolitan.com

Oh as if.  For the past 50 odd years, an entire industry, probably  bigger than any other on the planet, has grown around the notion of  women’s insecurity about themselves.  That is not to say that women historically have never cared about their appearance and presentation, but in simpler times, it was confined to such things such as looking presentable and smelling nice.  Ostensibly, you w0uld think that these pursuits are for the intent of attracting males, but I’ve heard women say that these efforts are for other women…whatever that means.

 I don’t begrudge the beauty and perfume business to embellish women’s charms, in fact,  I think they are great blessings for men, even godsends.   I am amused at the magazines and media that purport to tell women how to carry themselves in every aspect of their daily lives.  When you look at the agenda of many women’s magazines, the subtext is usually about fashion, sex advice and dating tips.  We’re not talking about lighting incense candles here, the topics in today’s magazines concern such things as “crazy hot sex moves”  or “positions”.

It’s actually a very fine dance to give women the message of empowerment, but to also imply that you’d better wear this color outfit, wear that color lip gloss, or have your hair in the au courant style.  Nevertheless, there must be a sizable audience for this kind of advice because of the proliferation of magazines such as Cosmopolitan.

On the other side of the gender fence, men’s magazines have also begun to flourish in the past 15 years or so.  In the old days, a men’s magazine was about women.  Apparently men are more into themselves now and would rather ogle themselves than other gals.  The front covers of Men’s Health or Men’s Fitness have the identical headlines from month to month.  If all that ab bustin’, sex tipping, career boosting, calorie helpin’ advice was any good, why would you have to have a monthly magazine to say the same thing?

As an aside, I have always wondered about Runner’s World.  Really?  A magazine about running?  What are the exciting headlines, “Do you really need to alternate feet?”, “Tread Patterns for the New Year”?

Getting back to gender magazines and advice, all that this navel gazing advice has done is create a population of neurotic people.  There are ideals put forth that are aspired to but never reachable.   The consequence is the subject of  the linked article.  They are making robots now with the ideal gender characteristics.  I seem to recall a story recently about a man marrying such a  robot in Japan, but perhaps it was an Onion story. 

 Assuming most will not go the robot route for mates, we can expect dissatisfaction to be standard among people as they have to settle for 2nds and 3rds in their real lives.  If they don’t settle, they’ll wind up waiting and risking their own sell by date as they wait for the perfect specimen.   Better stock up on cologne and foundation.

link Tiger Woods photographed outside Mississippi rehabilitation centre where he is reportedly being treated for sex addiction | Herald Sun.

Of course we don’t know exactly how this came about.  How was the decision made to identify Tiger’s “condition” as an affliction that needs treatment?  Are we to believe that:

a) Tiger recognizes that because of his fame, fortune, high powered friends and exalted status among athletes,  getting access to willing young women is a horrible burden of the business and is a bad thing

b) His wife says that the above is a bad thing

c) His sponsors say that it’s a bad thing especially if he gets caught

d) His mother gave him the ol’ ear twist

e) His current girlfriend thinks he should go so she can be exclusive

f) His business managers told him to go in order to salvage whatever status he may have as a sympathetic character and to pave his way back to the tour so they can all make money again.  It certainly can’t be Tiger’s fault if it’s a disease.  This horrific ailment which co-incidently only afflicts young men in the sports and entertainment industry with lots of fame and available money, must be appropriately treated.

Of course there is precedence for this.  David Duchovny, Michael Douglas and Charlie Sheen all had to live through this horror before being admitted to treatment.  Sadly we have seen the tragic consequences of this affliction if allowed to go untreated.  Apparently,  after numerous serial sexual encounters, blood stops circulating properly in the brain and judgement suffers.  In severe cases like Warren Beatty and Wilt Chamberlain, the victim loses the ability to count.

People who may fall victim to this malaise are fortunate to have facilities established to properly treat them.  Naturally, there can be no temptations of any sort at the facility that can cause the patient stress. 

As I understand it, there are two schools of thought on how to treat sex addiction.  The first is from the abstinence and avoidance path.  In this program, the facility is staffed by mainly hirsute males and the patient is exposed to nothing at all which has any hint of women.  They are allowed to watch entertainment including sports and news and certain TV shows like The View and Joy Behar.  As part of the therapy, men’s magazines are available, but all have been rigged to have full facial shots of Rosie O’Donnell and an embedded chip that shrieks “I WANT YOU NOW!” when opened.

The other school of thought is to overstimulate the patient with images and videos of comely gals every minute of the day from wake up to bedding down at night.  They are forced to watch videos of The Girls Next Door in a constant loop until they cannot bear to hear them say one more inane thing.  By the time 6 weeks are over, they will avoid busty blondes like they were E-Coli sandwiches.

We don’t know which method Tiger will endure, but we all pray he can recover.