beauty is apparent, the robot lacks the emotional capabilities to fulfill that hole in his heart. Fritz Lang's 1927 film Metropolis contains the robot Maria as a central figure, who is portrayed as sexually alluring. Several episodes of the 1960's television show Star Trek: The Original Series featured female androids as companions of the protagonist, notably "Andrea" from episode "What Are Little Girls Made Of?" and "Rayna" from episode "Requiem for Methuselah". As with television censorship of the time sexuality is only alluded to. Both episodes employ the plot device of having the android struggle to comprehend human emotion. Ridley Scott's 1982 film Blade Runner depicts the android characters Pris, Rachel and Zhora as having been manufactured to be sexually alluring; Pris, in particular, is referred to as "a basic pleasure model". The 2001 film A.I. Artificial Intelligence has a male sex robot, Gigolo Joe, as a main character. Joe describes that humans love what robots do for them, but cannot love them since they are not flesh and blood, and in the end, hate them. A Gigolo Jane female model also briefly appears in the film. Futurama has two episodes involving robots and organic beings, "I Dated a Robot" and "Proposition Infinity". The 2007 film Lars and the Real Girl explores the idea of a romantic attachment to artificial human-like items. Ultimately, the film concludes with the protagonist "murdering" his sex doll lover in a river: emphasizing the projection of one's idealized lover onto an inanimate object. The 2014 film Ex Machina questions common notions about consciousness. A sentient female robot is created with a violent outcome, rebelling against her creators. Throughout the story, Ex Machina appears to empathize with the robot as a victim of a man with a god complex. Responding to the protagonist's uncertainty about her fate if she does not live up to her creator's standards, the robot, Ava, responds "Why is it up to anyone?" about whether or not she lives. This questions the audience's underlying belief about whether or not a robot is entitled to a free life like other conscious beings. In the 2016 TV series Westworld, realistic interactive robots, part of a theme park, engage in sexual and other activity with guests. The 2020 satirical dystopian fiction novel Ride, Sally, Ride by Douglas Wilson centers on the cultural impact of charging a man with murder for destroying a sex robot which