. ."). Heirs to several decades' rhetoric about the cybernated "House of the Future," Milhon, Brown, and Whiteway envision Personal Robots and cyborg love slaves that would attend to more than June Cleaver's housework. Orgasmatron The RoboCopulatory fantasies of Milhon and her fellow WELL-dwellers spring in part from what McLuhan called the "hungry curiosity to explore and enlarge the domain of sex by mechanical technique." It is a received truth that mass desire plays a strong role in "willing" technology into being. Where there's a will, there is often a ^.vay, and the craving for something like the Orgasmatron, the orgasm-inducing booth imagined by Woody Allen in Sleeper, lurks beneath the surface of cyberculture. According to the cultural anthropologist Arthur Harkins, Already there is talk of creation of androids for sexual purposes. I think you are going to see an industry develop in the sexual-appliance area. At first it will be machine appliances, and eventually you will see biological substitutes or surrogates for human sexual organs being employed in stationary and mobile machine systems."*^ Harkins's words may prove prophetic if cultural momentum propels events on their present course.
