Imagine it: suppose I were to go ahead and marry A, with her sweet tits and so on, what will happen when B appears, whose are even sweeter—or, at any rate, newer? Or C, who knows how to move her ass in some special way I have never experienced; or D, or E, or F. I'm trying to be honest with you, Doctor—because with sex the human imagination runs to Z, and then beyond! Tits and cunts and legs and lips and mouths and tongues and assholes! How can I give up what I have never even had, for a girl, who delicious and provocative as once she may have been, will inevitably grow as familiar to me as a loaf of bread? For love? What love? Is that what binds all these couples we know together—the ones who even bother to let themselves be bound? Isn't it something more like weakness? Isn't it rather convenience and apathy and guilt? Isn't it rather fear and exhaustion and inertia, gutlessness plain and simple, far far more than that "love" that the marriage counselors and the songwriters and the psychotherapists are forever dreaming about?
–Alexander Portnoy
One may have a thousand friends, but only one love-mate. Harems have nothing to do with this matter: I am speaking of dance, not gymnastics. Or can one imagine a tremendous Turk loving every one of his four hundred wives as I love you? For if I say "two" I have started to count and there is no end to it. There is only one real number: One. And love, apparently, is the best exponent of this singularity.
-Sebastian Knight
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Counter-counter-point:
"As one ages, it becomes clear that maximal sexual intimacy sometimes takes a very long time to evolve--years, even--and that it redefines itself along the evolution of a loving relationship. Robots will be able to achieve this evolutionary process more quickly than humans, by retaining all the memories of living with their human other, analyzing the relationship characteristics exhibited by their human, and by themselves studying huge databases of relationship and how they are affected by different behaviors, then tuning their own behavior to the needs of their human mate. Humans often do not know what they really want or need, so intuitive robot sex partners are a real requirement, able to discern whether their owner really wants sex or would prefer an nice glass of wine or a walk in the park." -David Levy, Love and Sex with Robots: The Evolution of Human-Robot Relationships
Mmmmmm, robots.
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