The Sex Chip
Researchers on both sides of the Atlantic are developing what the media has dubbed a 'sex chip,' according to the Daily Mail.
The implanted chip, which stimulates the brain's pleasure points, has already been used in the United States to treat Parkinson's disease and, in England, is now being studied as a potential treatment for anhedonia, a disorder that blocks pleasurable sensations like those in sex and eating.
Oxford University fellow Professor Tipu Aziz said of the chip, "A few years ago a scientist implanted such a device into the brain of a woman with a low sex drive and turned her into a very sexually active woman. She didn't like the sudden change, so the wiring in her head was removed."
That being said, Aziz thinks the chip needs more work, forecasting ten more years of development.
Ten years should give us enough time to sort out the ethics of robot sex, so that we can safely move on to ponder the ethics of chemical sex.
from The Daily Mail
(2nd paragraph) I hope the female "subject" wasn't Professor Aziz's wife!
