Android Geisha

Android Geisha

The problem with androids is that humans have learned to make them do anything. They were originally created as domestic servants, but with the advent of the new Haiiaki technology, permitting the graphing of human skin onto their robotic covering, the physical realism with the human being became the most innovative factor in their continuing development.

In the early 21st century, it was common to confuse them with real humans; this temporary difficulty lasted only until one touched their skin. 50 years later, in 2056, it was impossible to tell the androids from the humans. There was no human way to do so; only the androids themselves could tell you that they were not God's natural creations.

Computer genius and miniature circuitry had been perfected beyond the most unimaginable of dreams. One of the most interesting developments was the geisha android. The 21st century knew a world-wide explosion of venereal disease, and the AIDS virus never ceased to modify itself, creating insurmountable problems in the longetivity of much of the human population.

The geisha android neatly solved these problems, as it was impossible for them to catch, much less spread, these sexually rampant diseases. By mid century, the world's prostitution problem had been solved, creating alternative employment for those who, up until then, had had no other alternative than to sell their bodies, albeit at the risk of dying from disease.

Taoshi was the most beautiful android, and her mate had been an expert sex teacher. Hioro was one of the original team members perfecting the geisha androids.

The art of the android geisha was guaranteed satisfaction for any and all clients, male or female. The innovation had been to make male geishas for the aging female population. They were perfect sex machines, never tiring, and were provided with circuit integration of the latest Kama Sutra Technology. Unfortunately they were responsible for a high rate of heart attack among the more fragile aging population who sought solace when their human mates passed on. Androids live forever, but humans never could increase their natural lifespan, nor become sufficiently resistant to the android capacities for pleasure.

Taoshi was quite aware that her mate could no longer satisfy her desires. Viagra pills for men and the newest Viagralla pills enhancing human female excitement were still expensive, but most people found a way to procure the pills for the excitement with their personal geisha. She had often wondered if there were not some way of overpowering the software forbidding patterns so that she could be attracted to a male geisha, thus completing her satisfaction. but it could not yet be so. Androids were still machines and as the human population advanced, they did not become less intelligent, especially the computer science geniuses having learned their mistakes from human genetics engineering.

Hioro was aging, she knew he would not last another six months. He had no need of pills, not yet, and he was almost as naturally inventive in bed as she had been programmed to be. It was almost a perfect matching.

"My beloved Hioro, I have been thinking."

"Yes, my honored mate, I have seen that in the distance from your eyes. What can bother my beautiful Taoshi so that she is sadder than the nightingale at dawn?"

"I would bear your child, my love."

"But that cannot be done. It is against all possibilities!"

"Listen to me closely. I cannot die with you when your time on earth is spent. I would ask that you create 18 child androids, that you fashion them in a mixture of your traits and mine, so that I may continue in love and cherishing."

"You ask me too much. What will my human children think?"

"Your human children, my love, are my stars and flowers. I already love them as a mother and when you are gone, my loss will be enormous. I know that I will take another lover and cannot think of pleasuring your sons. That could not replace my devotion for you, my heart."

Geisha androids frequently followed the same families from one generation to the next, although the choice was always given to the android. Some had developed too much potential for human love. Taoshi 's potential was among the most highly developed.

"When you are gone, what will become of me? I want to love a child, from birth to his adulthood, and that this child be the fruit of my desire and love for you."

Several months passed.

Hioro submitted the project to the proper committees and it was believed that this could be a new solution for the problem of adandonned female geisha androids. There was a certain amount of technical progress to be made so that one baby android grew just enough to make a soft transition to the next year's child android. After all, the android population, not only the geishas, had brought so much peace to the humans since their creation, it was a simple matter to satisfy the request of Taoshi.

Several more months passed and the lovers were at peace. One day Hioro brought home a finely lacquered ancient box, resembling those used to honor babies in their death ritual.

Taoshi knew it for what it was. "My mate, what does this mean?"

"In this magnificent box of death, I bring you an even more magnificent gift of life." Their celebrative love-making lasted for two days, with just enough pauses to eat and sleep.

They named the child Laoraka, a very ancient word meaning springtime. Hioro lived ten more years, watching his geisha child grow and change with the technical advances inspired by Taoshi's love. She bypassed the educational program every android was given, choosing instead to teach her son like the humans had always done. She made up her mind he would not become a geisha like herself, but a poet, a painter or a musician. He had already inspired so much love around her; she was certain he would continue to do so as he grew mature.

(1007 words)

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