Objectification

[Loverbot]

"Objectification is an attitude that regards a person as a commodity or as an object for use, with insufficient regard for a person's personality"

When i first met my boyfreind and he introduced me to ASFR i saw alot of parallels to BDSM. He on the other hand had little to no experince in the subject. the first thing i saw was objectification ( do not worry guys I am not a feminist). It was rather a turn on for me and demasking. wow we will cover that in another post.

Initially he was oppsoed to treating me as just a machine and object of his desire but now he sees how much i enjoy it he has warmed up to it.

So for discussion do you other Gentelmen and ladies enjoy this apsect of ASFR.

( Mods if this is to sexual or inflammatory let me know)

[WilloWisp]

A lot of us are somewhat touchy about this subject. Some of us even reject this comparison outright - our banner seems to be that "Robophilia isn't the objectification of females - it's the feminization of objects."

There's a sort of gradient scale with human-to-robot transformation at one end, and fully synthetic robots (built and programmed from scratch) at the other. Those at the transformation end tend to enjoy the portrayal of a normal human consciousness transitioning to the structure and control of a robot mind. Those at the other end of the spectrum tend to enjoy the breakdown of the illusion of sentience, however perfect or flawed it may be.

This is, of course, grossly oversimplifying things, as it's more multi-dimensional than that - some enjoy different degrees of sentient machines, some want the machine to dominate the human, some get off on the psychological aspects, and some get off on the technological aspects. Some of us want the BDSM overtones, and some of us get plenty aroused by things which don't actually involve sex or nudity. There's a lot of territory covered by the phrase "robot fetish," and it would be difficult to describe it all completely.

[Loverbot]

I like things with a broad spectrum it gives you alot of room for diffrent experinces. Speaking for my self personaly i do enjoy various degrees of sentience. Some tiems i liek to be treated almost human sometimes with limited abilites for example fembot secratary and other times i just want to be a pleasure machine

I understand what Willo says about "Robophilia isn't the objectification of females - it's the feminization of objects." But i feel -objectification- has gotten a bad reputation and if between to consenting adults it can be an enjoyable experince but also not for everyone.

What kishin said "The fetish does have a wide spectrum, so it would seem to support many viewpoints and ideals. Not merely a single banner." Allows all of us to come toghter under one thing to share diffrent viewpoints and exeprinces sexual and non sexual and learn from one another to hopefully bring more enjoyemnt to a fetish we all love.

[WilloWisp]

The fetish does have a wide spectrum, so it would seem to support many viewpoints and ideals. Not merely a single banner.

I can see the context of my original statement was lost: I'm among the subcategory of those who tend to reject the comparison, hence my usage of "our" in that instance. I did not intend to convey that it should apply to the entire community by any stretch. I know full well that there are plenty here who like the idea of objectifying women. I just don't count myself among them.

[Stephaniebot]

Yes, we do seem to run the whole spectrum of tastes here, which has to be a good thing. Its well known by now that I'm in the tf camp, but enjoy the whole time here, though a few more tf stories would be nice to read.

And please, dont say write them, I've done enough over the years!

Would love to be nothing more than a robot, but think thats a well known fact lol!

[nybble]

Would love to be nothing more than a robot, but think thats a well known fact lol!

Interesting viewpoint. Is being a robot less than human, more than human, human but different, or different from human but no more or less?

One of the things that I like about this fetish (hates that word, we do; to me, fetishes are small animal carvings) is that it not only does it give a lot of opportunities for exploring sexual situations with interesting additions, complications, etc., but it also explores one of my favorite themes in science fiction: for better or worse, the definition of 'human'.

A rock is not human, a typewriter is not human, a prosthetic arm is not human. But when you start to meet the requirements the 'duck rule', is that enough? Is walking like a human and talking like a human and thinking like a human enough to make something human? From the other perspective, if someone starts as biological human, but is physically replaced, piece by piece, by something not biologic, when do they stop being human? Do they stop being human?

[Stephaniebot]

I think it would be different to a human, but not sure about it being less or more in all honesty.