Mainstream

The current issue (August 2011) of National Geographic uses, without introduction or explanation, the word fembot.

It was only ten years ago that I published Order, and at the time thought I had broken new ground with the idea of robotic sex partners. The fembot term was already a staple of story codes; I had simply not been aware of it as an established genre.

Still... interesting to find it in a mainstream publication, without a hint of a blush.

— Frenulum