I'm listening to the intro to the newest podcast, and I really, really have to disagree with you here. I'm all for people being free to explore their kinks, and I hope centaur fetishists and the like get all the half people/half horse/all robot sexbots they want. But I'm going to have to draw the line at bioengineering half human hybrids. Not so much because I'm against bioengineering (I want to get me one of them glowpuppies they're making in the labs these days), but because it sounds way, way too much like sex slavery. When we get the technology that lets people transform themselves into half animals, that'll be different, but what we're talking about here is half-people who would be bred for sex. Which, to me, seems completely indefensible and pretty fucking vile.

I'm all for sexbots, but when you're bioengineering, you're talking about people, not sex toys. Anyway, I'm just hoping you didn't think to think this through from the animal/person hybrid's point of view...

Anyway, thank for the podcast!

Bill

You're welcome for the podcast, Bill, and my comments about bioengineered centaurs were meant to be tongue-in-cheek. For the record: I am against the creation of half-human/half-animal hybrids for all the same and very sound reasons you are. Plus, I saw the still-thoroughly dreamy Michael York transformed into a "humanimal" in The Island of Dr. Moreau at an impressionable age and was thoroughly traumatized by the experience.

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Enjoy the trailer—a shirtless Michael York in a cage!—by clicking here.