“Surrogates” author describes deleted SciFi hooker scene
In a new interview titled “Love Thy Surrogate Self,” Robert Venditti describes a deleted scene from his “Surrogates” graphic novel where Detective Greer (Bruce Willis’s character) requests a “skin job” from a virtual prostitute — that is, real-life body-to-body contact. “The prostitute rebuffs him, offended that he’d think she was that kind of girl.”
Greer also plays surrogate sex games with his wife in a newly-released prequel, and visits a surrogate sex club called Gandy Land. (”When you’re feeling randy, go Gandy.” But in the interview, author Venditti finally answers the question of whether he’d ever use a surrogate himself.
“I’d like to think that I wouldn’t… But technology can be a very seductive thing, which is probably why we all welcome it into our lives without really thinking about what its ramifications are going to be. So as much as I want to believe that I’d eschew the surrogate lifestyle, the iPhone/TiVO/computer side of me realizes that probably wouldn’t be the case.”
He also points out doctors could perform life-saving surgery remotely, so “It’s not all bad.” And if he had to choose a surrogate?
“To be onboard Serenity in Joss Whedon’s Firefly”
