I missed this last winter

LOVE AND SEX WITH ROBOTS
The Evolution of Human-Robot Relationships.
By David Levy.
Illustrated. 334 pp. Harper/HarperCollins Publishers. $24.95.

clipped from www.nytimes.com Robo Love By ROBIN MARANTZ HENIG LOVE AND SEX WITH ROBOTS The Evolution of Human-Robot Relationships. By David Levy. By the middle of this century, he predicts, “love with robots will be as normal as love with other humans, while the number of sexual acts and lovemaking positions commonly practiced between humans will be extended, as robots teach more than is in all of the world’s published sex manuals combined.” Humans, Levy writes, are hard-wired to impute emotions onto anything with which we’re in intimate contact, to feel love for objects both animate and inanimate. And robots, he argues, might turn out to be even more lovable than some humans. I’d have liked a little less gee-whiz, and a little more examination about whether a sexbot in every home, a Kama Sutra on legs that never tires, never says no, and never has needs of its own is what we really want.