A robot? Nope. Thats the same as a vibrator or dildo. Its just a machine that does a purpose. This one being sexual gratification.

Androids, on the other hand, thats a stickier situation. (heh heh sticky).  Androids are more human like and may even have personalities, so that’s where the stumbling block comes from. If you could buy a Jennifer Love Hewwitt droid and bang her all night, why would you go through the hassle of dating? Why work on your relationship if you can get a hummer from your Katherine Heigal bot? Not to put to fine a line on it, but men work on relationships to receive sexual pleasure and meet our emotional needs at the same time. Or to get baked goods. We can go either way. If the Jolie bot is stroking my ego, as well as my johnson, then it would be providing all that many men would need from their partner, so that in my humble opinion, would constitute cheating. Its not the sex that makes it cheating, but the withdrawal of affection and the need of one partner for another that they are getting from another.

0.o jimmyboy, did you just re-enact a scene from austin powers?

er…

Well I have more disturbing discussions in this field. you have to consider several factors…

1- Is the bot self-aware?

2- *scrreeeeech*

hold one a second.

“then it would be providing all that many men would need from their partner”

wow, I just found out im not covered under “many men”.

nevertheless…

2-emotional connectivity

can you actually have a relationship with a machine?

This answer does not depend on whether the machine can have a relationship with you (self aware) as I proved when discussing a friends love of the idea of a fictional woman.

The idea of cheating -*threewayideathought*-whoa…where’d that one come from… O.o ...well, to cheat I think could be covered under two kinds; the sexual and emotional. for “many men” emotional can be a very shallow thing. I could go into more detail but I’ll probably break my complex logic map made out of tinkertoys at this point…

just to be safe JimK, dont seduce any bots until we get the jury in on this one.

-Lion

The better question to ask is, would it still be cheating if it WASN’T a sexual relationship? What if you like to spend more time “talking” and hanging out with a synthetic intelligence? Does that count as emotional cheating?

As far a sex cheating goes, I think anytime you’re doing somethin sexual and you’re keeping it from your partner you’ve got a problem. Call it cheating or not. It doesn’t matter in the long run because when they find out it’s going to hurt them just the same.

Honestly I don’t think you can just simply answer this one yes or no.  It depends on the people in the relationship, what they consider cheating, how open are they, and other things of that nature.  Plus it depends on the machine.  Is it just a plain machine with no thoughts or feelings, or is it a true AI capable of thought and emotion.  There are so many things to consider that it’s going to depend on the thoughts of the actual people involved, much like cheating in general.

As always Futurama has the answers:
http://www.milkandcookies.com/link/48647/detail/

i think the more interesting situation arises if say your wife ir girlfriend wasnt ok with say a Jolie bot, but was ok with a robot that was modeled after her on the theory that if its her likeness/personality its modeled after and her body its not cheating, just an elaborate masturbatory aide.

but then say, you and your S.O. have a fight one day and you seek comfort in the arms of your Stepford Girl - is that cheating? Or say your SO isnt into certain things, but you can program the copy to be, the theory being well she wont go for this, but pseudo-she will. So there are grey areas.