io9 
Enter your username and password.
San Francisco, 9:05 AM
Thu Nov 26
22 posts in the last 24 hours
Tip your editors: tips@io9.com
Editor-in-Chief:
Annalee Newitz | Email
News Editor:
Charlie Jane Anders | Email
Associate Editor:
Meredith Woerner | Email
Assistant Editor:
Lauren Davis | Email
Weekend Editor:
Graeme McMillan | Email
Contributors:
Joshua Glenn
Stephen Goldmeier | Email
Ed Grabianowski | Email
Austin Grossman
Paul Hogan | Email
Lauren Davis | Email
Chris Hsiang | Email
Lynn Peril | Email
Ann VanderMeer
Alasdair Wilkins | Email
Graphic Designer:
Stephanie Fox | Email
Interns:
Tim Barribeau | Email
Julia Carusillo | Email
Alex Eichler | Email
Cyriaque Lamar | Email
Caitlin Petrakovitz | Email
Mary Ratliff | Email
Josh Snyder | Email
Original material is licensed under a Creative Commons License permitting non-commercial sharing with attribution.
11/14/09
Actually that's the best thing about it. I really wouldn't want to date me.... #robertaheinlein
11/14/09
11/14/09
Many people who are too much alike don't get along at all; an opposite-sex (or same-sex, if that's what you like) clone doesn't seem likely to be a perfect match.
-Kle. #robertaheinlein
11/14/09
11/14/09
Oh wait. #cloning
11/13/09
11/13/09
11/14/09
Agalmatophilia? (just motionless mannequins)
Gynoidophilia? (not a pretty word)
Fembotophilia? (very, very, gropey)
Sexbotiphilia? (the same, but more so)
Cyborgiphilia? (coldy mechanical and ungendered)
Doppelgangeriphilia? (for the love of Gibson, no!)
Bishop: "I prefer the term artificialpersonophilia." (not on your nelly)
Hyperalloycombatchassiphilia (kinky as hell, and my personal favourite, but no)
"Prisiphilia!"
Just like Pubert in Addams Family Values, "I like it! It's filthy!", plus it's got that whole quasi-evil, sexbot, replicant, cloney, thigh-squeezy, gymnasticy thing going on and there's precedent in Paparazzi for using a perfect exemplar of a fictional character.
"I think, Sebastian, therefore I am." #cloning
11/14/09
11/13/09
Assuming we're not in some freaky psychic-link parallel universe and each clone is alone in their own head...
Masturbation relies on a physical sense of self and is by definition a solitary act, so - because any clone will have an individual sense of self separate from their genetic destiny - clone sex is not masturbation.
Incest, however, comes in two flavors: relationship and genetics.
The act of people who are genetically related having sex is always *biologically* incest to one degree or another, even without emotional bonds being present; but if the two people are strangers there's no emotional baggage, and mental health-wise it's just like any other hook-up.
People who are not related by biology but who are raised together as a family from an early age (under 5) form familial bonds which generally preclude sexual attraction; this is an emotional bond and despite lack of genetic similarity a sexual relationship here would be called "incest" by a psychologist.
So sex between clones is always biologically incest with all the attendant genetic risks for children, but it might not have the emotional overtones of traditional incest if the clones were strangers until they were adults.
The Vorkosigan series has a lovely legal take on clones and relationships, if anyone's interested. #robertaheinlein
11/13/09
"clones having sex!"
"...did you just say clowns having sex?"
"nope, *clone* sex."
"...'cause *that's* better. You're a freak, you know that?"
"Says the man playing four D-cup female characters on DragonAge."
"That's different." #robertaheinlein
11/13/09
Season 3 of TSCC would have made this guy's head explode (I'm assuming it's a guy, how sexist is that?):
Brunette-Cameron's chip (which may contain brunette-dead-Allison's memories from 2026, brunette-pre-scrub-Terminator Cameron's memories of brunette-dead-Allison from 2026 and brunette-post-scrub-Cameron Baum's glitch manifested personality of brunette-Alison (one L) from 2009) in Cromartie's (thankfully not brunette) endoskeleton meets brunette-still-alive-alt-future-Allison in an alternate 2026, where brunette-Cameron has just sent 2009 John Connor (who brunette-Cameron-chip is 'in love with') after sexually imprinting him on brunette-alt-future -Allison', by sexually imprinting him on her (brunette-Cameron) in 2009 ......
[The fact that brunette-2009-Cameron's hairstyle had started to imitate that of John Connor's mother, brunette-Sarah Connor, just before the final act of sexual imprinting (the power-cell 'checking' *cough*), just turns this whole thing into one "Freakin' big and right out there" Oedipal nightmare!]
It's just so many kinds of brunette on brunette, on brunette, on brunette action!
Seriously. Brains everywhere! #cloning
11/13/09
11/13/09
11/13/09
11/13/09
I'm feeling ashamed of you :)
11/13/09
11/13/09
11/13/09
11/13/09
Clip 1: Mutant X
Clip 2: CSI Miami (she's not a clone, she's a twin sister)
Clip 3: TSCC (Allison from Palmdale and Cameron)
Clip 4: Black Scorpion
Clip 5: Outer Limits episode (don't know the name) #cloning
11/13/09
11/13/09
right. now. #cloning
11/13/09
11/13/09
How did David Caruso become so ludicrously mannered and awful?
I remember how fun he was in supporting roles early in his 'career'.
Sad. #cloning