Is this cheating?

Is this considered cheating?
Hello everyone.
I have a hypothetical question for you.
I need to word this carefully.
If someone had relations with a robot, and was married at the time, would that be considered cheating?
I just watched the movie, Westworld, where James Brolin and Richard Benjamin go to a resort for a thousand dollars a day that is modeled after the old west circa 1880s.
You can do pretty much whatever you want there.
They went into a saloon and picked up on a couple of ladies that were according to the guys just like humans except their hands were smooth.
So there you have it.
Richard Benjamin I believe was married and Mrs. Darcy asked me if he cheated.
I don't know what to say, so I figured I would ask you guys.
I don't think I could do it.
Maybe it is cheating.
Could you vote in my poll?
It's one of my favorite movies.
Thanks.
Slug

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But, were they sentient and self aware? Is that a life form? Does it have a soul? Watch Blade Runner, and then ask these same questions...

I would have to say yes...

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Technically, yes... it is cheating.

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I voted yes. Part of the wedding vows is to forsake all others. If he gave into temptation and did the hanky-panky with a robot then the answers is yes, he cheated.

I suppose you could get Cintonesk about it and examine the word 'others'....but, no matter how you term it the outcome would still be the same. Others is other than your wife. Last time I went to a wedding and heard the vows there wasn't a robot or space alien exempt clause recited.

No, you might as well call masturbation cheating...:\

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Were they in a different state? Were there two girls for one guy, so they cancel each other out?

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Not only that, but you could go blind.

Seriously though I think it depends on the couple involved, they should be up front with each other, and if it is okay with them to do the hanky panky with a vaccuum cleaner or such then alrighty.

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It's not cheating if you tell your lady friend about it. If you have to hide something, yeah, it's probably cheating. If my girlfriend said, "You want to have sex with robots? Go for it. I hope it's fun." And then I went and had some sex with robots, it wouldn't be cheating. If she said, "You better not have sex with those robots." Then, if I had humped a robot it would be cheating. Like most things, its a case by case situation.

And I didn't vote because there was no "It Depends" option.

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I can only hope that some day I have an intimate conversation with a lady about my hypothetical affair with a robot. That truly be living the dream for me.

And yes, what the Pimp said, if you feel the need to hide it, it's probably cheating. On the other hand I could imagine a situation where you're open about it but would still be cheating or at least kind of inconstant. Kind of depends on the specific nature of your relationship.

Another problem I could imagine many girls having with this wouldn't be one of whether or not it makes their boyfriend inconstant, but whether it makes him a disgusting pervert. I could be off base with that conjecture though.

If the robot looks and acts human, then yes, it's cheating. Why are we so different from robots? True, we're not made out of steel, wires and circuitry... although, some of us may have robotic body parts, like robotic legs if you're missing your legs. I saw a guy in a magazine the other day who had robotic legs... I felt weird because above the waist, he was actually pretty hot.

Now, if you fool around with a robot that looks like this thing on the left...


It's not cheating. It's fu%^ed up.

But if the woman beside that bot is a bot herself (wait... is that a woman?) and you get it on with her even though you're married, or partnered, or just dating - it's cheating.

I would be on that like stink on cheese.

Wow.

This topic is...

Just wow.



Uhh..
I'm gonna go with "it's only cheating if your partner thinks it's cheating".
Some women will think spankin to porn is cheating.
In the same sense a guy can think when a woman is 'pleasured ' by a good romance novel is cheating.

Robots?
Blow-up dolls?
Real Dolls?
Cyber-Sex?
Virtual-Reality?

I'm gonna have to basicly go with what Pimp DS said earlier.
if you feel guilty about it afterwards, and you don't tell your partner, you probably cheated.

If you somehow had some real serious feelings for the robot-in-question, then yeah you definately cheated.

Whatever the situation, this is a dangerous path of thinking in any case. Next thing you know these sex-bots are going to be demanding rightsand privlages.
What about how they feel"

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o.k. o.k. I got one....

"it's not cheating if you cover your balls in peanut butter and let your dog like it off"


on a different note, is sex with your twin considered masturbation?

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I say no.

It would be mechanical. People cannot be replaced with machinery (or farm animals ).

The above is quoted to highlight the lucidity of the post, very astute. I still don't think it's cheating though.

Nah. It's sex with someone you love, after all...

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Coke. Pouring out of my nose. Thanks.

Pimp's dead on. I don't think "cheating" is really defined by physical acts. It's about the deception involved. You "cheat" in a relationship by venturing outside of the "rules" the two of you have agreed on.

Inevitably, of course, things will come up that you've never discussed...like sex robots, for example. In those instances, you probably already know whether or not it's cheating. If you deliberately hide an action from your significant other because you know or suspect it will cause them distress, you're "cheating" them of their role as a partner, which presumably involves input on these sorts of things.

I would be interested to hear what the majority of female MoFo's think, I'm betting a good percentage of them would think its cheating, I know my wife would. Sure I suppose you can try to get in the gray area and go on a case by case basis, but really what's the point? If you need to have sex outside your marriage or relationship then most likely you don't need to be in one to begin with. Who cares if its a Robot or that really hot sheep next door.

To quote Alan Shore's grandmother, "This smells funny, I'm not going to eat it."

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Yeeeaaah, but...

I suppose it depends on what your definition is of a relationship and then what your definition of outside the relationship is.

First off, I probably couldn't get worked up for a robot cause it's a robot. That said, assuming I could, I would put it in the 'toy' category so as Yoda and Pimp said up above it's not the physical act that defines it but rather the spoken and unspoken rules of the relationship.

If your wife didn't think it would be cheating then would it be?

I suppose I'm some what old fashioned, hanky panky is hanky panky. I suppose others can have other definitions but really, how many of the so called open relationships really work? And how many of them are really relationships to begin with? And I don't have any really wonderful statistics to back me up, it's just my feelings about love and relationships in general. I may be completely off base but I doubt it.


An interesting argument but also one that's a little easy to go over board with don't you think? I could just as easily say my wife didn't think there was anything wrong with me running the guy off the road that flipped me the bird, but its still wrong. I suppose if you were in a relationship and all things were clearly defined. Then that could be different. But how often is that really the case though?