The Late Night Sexy Show 8: The Future of Sex

The commercial break ends and the familiar heavy breathing and saxophone announces the return of the Late Night Sexy Show. Angelica Thrust and Martin Staithe are sitting on the sofa.

"In the final segment of our 'future of sex' edition of the Late Night Sexy Show, our resident magician will present his take on the future of sex."

Angelica takes up the presentation by adding, "So here is 'Unreal' with the help of someone you may recognise."

The shot changes to the demonstrations area of the studio where Gabriel stands alone. He pauses a moment to be sure that he is not starting before the audience can see and hear him. "As we've heard during this show, there have been a lot of exciting developments recently in the fields of adult entertainment and virtual-reality sex. But no-one has mentioned the futuristic idea of sex-bots, so I thought we ought to address that omission. To that end I invited Hannah, who we have worked with before, and The Sexy Show's favourite bodypainter, Richard DaCosta, to help us out. When they arrived earlier this afternoon, this is what happened."

A pre-recorded segment is shown. A room cluttered with Richard's body painting equipment is seen; he is already there. Gabriel, Annika and Hannah enter. Soon introductions are made and the audience are reminded that Hannah has been here before, last time as the model for what was to be painted on Annika and then during the show, Hannah's costume was switched on to Annika and she was dressed in the paint that had been applied to Annika.

"So, Richard, you got the designs that I wanted you to paint on Annika and Hannah? What did you think?"

"Well, they seemed to be fairly standard, so I have no problem with them. In fact, I've painted the design you based on the work of Hajime Sorayama several times (it may be from eighties, but people still ask if I can paint people like that); it's popular enough that I have a headpiece for it, because the antennae are impossible to paint and it saves some of the trouble of getting the paint out of the model's hair. The other one is fairly popular too and I'll be fitting whichever lady gets to wear that design with a scalp-cap to keep her hair from getting messy too."

"Good," said Gabriel, "which design would you like to work on first?"

"I would prefer to do the Sorayama design first. It may seem simple at first sight, but getting the effect just right can be fiddly."

"That's suits me best too, because I'll need to do a bit of hypnosis on Hannah and it's going to be easier, before she gets painted. Annika will be your first model and then, when you're ready, Hannah can get painted too." Hannah looks a little doubtful until Gabriel reminds her that the last time they met she had said that if she got a chance to try being bodypainted by someone as good as Richard, she would give it a go.

Gabriel takes Hannah off to hypnotise her and the viewers are treated to a time-lapse of Richard painting Annika to resemble a chromed female robot.

The video tape ends and the shot returns to the demonstration area, where Gabriel has been joined by Annika painted as a chrome-skinned female robot; she is also wearing a matching helmet with a visor. "I would say Richard did a great job, wouldn't you say, Annika?"

"Yes, this is superb," says Annika, "I feel so sexy." She turns to show the full effect of her transformation. "He did a great job with Hannah too."

"Speaking if that, Hannah please come out and show us the job Richard has done with you."

With a slightly hesitant step, a figure also painted as a robot walks into the shot. Hannah has been painted to resemble a female robot made of white contoured panels with some gaps between to allow articulation; these gaps appear to show some of the black inner workings of the robot.

"Ok, Hannah, how do you like your paint job?"

"Well, it looks fantastic, but I feel more naked, than I did when I ended up in bodypaint last time; probably because then, when I looked down, I could see clothes, even if they weren't real. This time there's no pretence of cloths, but then I am painted as a thing not a person."

"That's good," comments Gabriel. "Well, back to the theme of the show; the future of sex. As I was saying no-one mentioned sex-bots and I can see some advantages and disadvantages in the concept; some of which I shall be demonstrating now."

He turns to Annika and says, "Robot Annika, you are a robot." Annika's stance changes and the little of her face that can be seen now lacks any expression. He steps over to Annika. "She looks great, but as you can see she is a bit stiff and hard." He taps the side of her breast with a fingernail; it does not move and we hear a sound like tapping an empty tin can.

Gabriel turns his attention to Hannah. "Robot Hannah, you are a robot, but you face will express the thoughts of Hannah, the person." Her body takes on a more rigid stance, but her face moves to a higher level of nervousness. The magician repeats the fingernail tap on the breast; again the breast does not move, but the sound is as if he has tapped a plate not a human breast. Hannah evidently felt the tap, but the sound of it took her by surprise.

Addressing the camera once more. "While a robot may be hard to the touch and not be able to express emotions very effectively, they are totally obedient; so they can be programmed to cooperate with whatever your kink happens to be; even the more outlandish ones."

An expression of worry crossed Hannah's face; she is wondering what kink he will have her demonstrate.

"Given the extent of the kinkiverse, we don't have time for that, so I shall be demonstrate a couple of other advantages of robots. The first one is that when they are not needed your robot can be stored."

"Some people envision that robots will be stored in cupboards and recharge while not in use, but I have a different vision. I believe that battery technology will have advanced to the point where there will be no need to recharge. This being the case I see that it will be just as easy to store them in a box." During this speech he has moved forward a box that he opens up by sliding away the side facing the camera; revealing a pink foam interior with some white lined hollows.

"Robot Hannah, Bring me Robot Annika's arm," he commands.

Hannah's body reacts before her face has time to show the sequence of surprise and puzzlement. She soon has one hand at the top of Annika's upper arm and the other below her elbow. She executes a twist and pull action and is surprised and shocked to see that she is now holding a detached limb, but her legs are already taking the piece of Annika to Gabriel. She hands it over to the magician who requests that she bring him Annika's other arm. Gabriel displays the arm to the camera, showing that the end where it had previously been connected to Annika is covered by a green printed circuit board scattered with various components and twinkling LEDs. He has just fitted the arm into a cavity in the box, when Hannah returns with Annika's other arm, which he quickly fits into another section situated symmetrically on the other side of the box.

Gabriel fetches a chair and having placed it centrally in the area, commands Robot Annika to sit on it. Annika moves to the chair; it seems that her balance is effected by her lack of arms. This gives the cameraman a chance to capture the fact that there were more circuit boards where her arms usually are connected.

"Robot Annika, unlock legs!" says Gabriel. He then reaches down and pulls them free and takes them to be fitted into the box. While doing this he tells Hannah to bring Annika's head. Despite the look of horror on its face, the black and white Robot Hannah, pulls the head from the remaining chromed torso and hands it to Gabriel. Soon the torso follows and is slotted into the final cavity in the foam-lined box.

"As you can see in this way the robot, which you probably paid quite a lot of money for, is protected and can easily be stowed somewhere safe."

"Of course, that's not the only advantage of a robots. If you decide that your robot does not quite meet the specification you want it to be, you don't have to invest in buying a new robot; you just buy some replacement parts and swap them over. This is my next little demonstration."

"Robot Hannah, please come here. What size are your breasts?"

Hannah looks almost offended by the question, but the answer, "34B," comes out of her mouth.

"Say, for instance, I want my robot to have 34 double D breasts, all I need to do is order new breast plates and replace them; like this."

Gabriel reaches forward and touches the left edge and the base of the white section that is painted on the left half of Hannah's chest and pulls away the plate and her breast with it. The white section in Gabriel's is shown to the camera and tapped, sounding like knocking a dinner plate.

Hannah looks down and sees that her breast is not there; the white area that had been painted on her chest is gone and along with it the shape of her breast and section of chest it had been painted on. Gabriel puts the breast section that he is holding down with a clink and goes back the remove Hannah's other chest section.

Hannah looks like she wants to scream, but all Gabriel does is wave his hand across the black area that seems to occupy the area where her chest was. He picks a plate that no one had noticed which has a larger hump on it and places it against Hannah's upper torso on the right and it seems to remain there as he fetches a second white ceramic breast plate and fits that on Hannah's left. For a moment Hannah looks relieved, but she looks down again and realises that the breasts are not the same size as the ones that were removed, but a couple of sizes bigger. Her face tells the tale of a battle between concern at not getting her own breasts back and optimism that it might be a good thing to have bigger breasts.

"Robot Hannah, sit on the chair," Gabriel commands before returning to addressing the camera. "Of course, interchangeable parts means that if a part gets damaged it can easily be exchanged for a working replacement. But not wanting to harm my assistants, I shall be demonstrating this, like this." He has removed the chrome-plated robot right arm from the box and approaches Robot Hannah. "Robot Hannah, I shall be handing you some parts. Remove the corresponding part and fit the part I have handed to you and hand me the part you have removed."

Hannah's expression begins as one of shock at the prospect of self-disassembly, but as her body reaches out to accept the proffered limb, changes to resignation. She places the robot arm on her lap and reaches her left arm across, it seems her, now larger, breasts are a little more in the way than she previously would have expected, but adjustments are quickly made and she watches in horrified fascination as her right arm come away from her shoulder, exhibiting the same style of circuit board at the former join, except hers are blue. She hands the black and white limb to the magician and picks up the silvery arm from her lap and deftly attaches it where the other limb was.

In turn Gabriel presents Robot Hannah with each of Robot Annika's limbs and Robot Hannah dutifully switches them for her own arms and legs.

"Robot Hannah, assemble Robot Annika from the parts in the box."

"As you can see, standardisation has its uses, but also can lead to some odd looking results. Of course, this is really just a science fiction fantasy and real sex-bots are unlikely to catch on, except perhaps for a few people with huge amounts of money and some very weird tastes. I believe, humans, in general, will always prefer real human interactions to any artificial alternative."

"Good, I now have two complete robots again." Indicating the figures with mismatched torsos and limbs.

"Robot Annika and Robot Hannah, you will return to being Annika and Hannah, respectively." The stances of both women change to something softer and their breasts wobble more than they had during the demonstration as the move to flank Gabriel. He makes a beckoning movement that invites the show's presenters to join them, which they do.

Hannah looks down and notices the expansion of her breasts and raises a hand to feel if they are really hers and pauses momentarily when she sees the silver paint on her arm and hand.

"That was very impressive, Gabriel," congratulates Martin.

"How was it for you, Hannah?" asks Angelica.

"The bodypainting was a little tiring, but fun; Richard is such a nice guy and not at all pervy. I was a bit nervous at the start, but I don't remember much of what happened. And I can't tell if I've got Annika's arms and legs or just the paint has been transferred; I guess I'll find out when I get in the shower to get the paint off. But I've definitely had a fun day."

Before either presenter can move on to the next planned question, Gabriel asks, "Hannah, Annika and I were thinking you seem to have done such a great job when you have come in to be a volunteer, that we would like to offer you a job as part of Unreal, being an assistant; a stand-in for Annika if she can't make it, or a second assistant for those occasions that demand extra assistants."

"I'd love to," shrieks Hannah turning to hug both Gabriel and Annika.

The presenters step forward and end the show by thanking Gabriel, Annika and Hannah, who are not paying any attention, and finish by saying, "That was our take on the future of sex, but next time we will be looking at sex as it is now and Jack will be looking sexy presents."