Editing Gynoid (section)

===Sex objects===
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Some argue that gynoids have often been portrayed as sexual objects. Female cyborgs have been similarly used in fiction, in which natural bodies are modified to become objects of fantasy.{{sfnp|Melzer|2006| page = [https://archive.org/details/alienconstructio00melz/page/n214 202]}} The female robot in visual media has been described as "the most visible linkage of technology and sex" by [[Steven Heller (design writer)|Steven Heller]].<ref>{{cite book |title= Sex appeal: the art of allure in graphic and advertising design|last= Heller|first= Steven |page=155 |year= 2000|publisher= Allworth Press|isbn=978-1-58115-048-3}}</ref>

Feminist critic Patricia Melzer writes in ''Alien Constructions: Science Fiction and Feminist Thought'' that gynoids in [[Richard Calder (writer)|Richard Calder]]'s ''Dead Girls'' are inextricably linked to men's lust, and are mainly designed as sex objects, having no use beyond "pleasing men's violent sexual desires."{{sfnp|Melzer|2006|  page = [https://archive.org/details/alienconstructio00melz/page/n216 204]}}
The gynoid character Eve from the film ''[[Eve of Destruction (film)|Eve of Destruction]]'' has been described as "a literal sex bomb," with her subservience to patriarchal authority and a bomb in place of reproductive organs.<ref name=desirbody230/> In the 1949 film ''[[The Perfect Woman (1949 film)|The Perfect Woman]]'', the titular robot, Olga, is described as having "no sex," but Steve Chibnall writes in his essay "Alien Women" in ''British Science Fiction Cinema'' that it is clear from her fetishistic underwear that she is produced as a toy for men, with an "implicit fantasy of a fully compliant sex machine."<ref>{{cite book |last1=Hunter |first1=I. Q. |title=British Science Fiction Cinema |date=4 January 2002 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-1-134-70277-0 |page=58 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2SuEAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA58 |language=en}}</ref> In the film ''[[Westworld (film)|Westworld]]'', female robots actually engaged in intercourse with human men as part of the make-believe vacation world human customers paid to attend.

Sexual interest in gynoids and fembots has been attributed to fetishisation of technology, and compared to [[sadomasochism]] in that it reorganizes the social risk of sex. The depiction of female robots minimizes the threat felt by men from female sexuality and allow the "erasure of any social interference in the spectator's erotic enjoyment of the image."<ref name=Foster103>{{cite book |title= The souls of cyberfolk: posthumanism as vernacular theory|last= Foster|first=Thomas |year= 2005|publisher= U of Minnesota Press |isbn=978-0-8166-3406-4 | page = 103 | quote = Gynoids are frames that enable us to desire differently, by accommodating libidinal-investments in male lack.}}</ref> Gynoid fantasies are produced and collected by online communities centered around chat rooms and web site galleries.<ref>{{cite book |title= The souls of cyberfolk: posthumanism as vernacular theory|last= Foster|first=Thomas |year= 2005|publisher= U of Minnesota Press |isbn=978-0-8166-3406-4 | page = 103}}</ref>

[[Isaac Asimov]] writes that his robots were generally sexually neutral and that giving the majority masculine names was not an attempt to comment on gender. He first wrote about female-appearing robots at the request of editor [[Judy-Lynn del Rey]].<ref>{{cite book |title= The Bicentennial man and other stories|url= https://archive.org/details/bicentennialmano00asim|url-access= registration|last= Asimov|page=[https://archive.org/details/bicentennialmano00asim/page/5 5] |year= 1976|publisher= Doubleday|isbn=978-0-385-12198-9}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|title= I. Asimov: a memoir|last= Asimov|first= Isaac|page= [https://archive.org/details/iasimovmemoir00asim_0/page/320 320]|year= 1994|publisher= Doubleday|isbn= 978-0-385-41701-3|url= https://archive.org/details/iasimovmemoir00asim_0/page/320}}</ref> Asimov's short story "Feminine Intuition" (1969) is an early example that showed gynoids as being as capable and versatile as male robots, with no sexual connotations.<ref>{{cite book|title= Gold: the final science-fiction-collection|last= Asimov|first= Isaac|page= [https://archive.org/details/goldfinalscience00asim/page/172 172]|year= 1995|publisher= HarperPrism|isbn= 978-0-06-105206-4|url= https://archive.org/details/goldfinalscience00asim/page/172}}</ref> Early models in "Feminine Intuition" were "female caricatures," used to highlight their human creators' reactions to the idea of female robots. Later models lost obviously feminine features, but retained "an air of femininity."<ref>{{cite book |title= The Bicentennial man and other stories|url= https://archive.org/details/bicentennialmano00asim|url-access= registration|last= Asimov|page=[https://archive.org/details/bicentennialmano00asim/page/15 15] |year= 1976|publisher= Doubleday|isbn=978-0-385-12198-9}}</ref>