Hypoxia
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Heinlein's FRIDAY features lab-grown clones and gene-spliced humanoids aka "artificial people" (APs) whose motto is "My mother was a test tube; my father was a knife". Although subject to discrimination by "natural-born people", humanoid APs look just like ordinary people -- unlike other APs like those engineered for inhumane industrial tasks. Some humanoid APs are intended as sex slaves. I suppose other sex-droids could be build with multiple mouths, genitals, etc for kinky satisfaction.
Let's distinguish: 'Robot' derives from a Slavic word for slave and now implies inorganic mechanisms, while an 'android' is a "synthetic organism designed to imitate a human". 'Bots are metallic and 'droids are fleshy. No sexbots for me, thank you. But a sexdroid could be fun.
Let's distinguish: 'Robot' derives from a Slavic word for slave and now implies inorganic mechanisms, while an 'android' is a "synthetic organism designed to imitate a human". 'Bots are metallic and 'droids are fleshy. No sexbots for me, thank you. But a sexdroid could be fun.
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