Over at the lj BSG community (the community -- Ha! like there aren't millions of lj BSG Communities) -- one of the members asked why there weren't any male sexbot type cylons and somebody suggested (as I was going to) that perhaps LEOBAN might be on that sort of mission. (It was his search for Starbuck that made me think that. . . well, that and, you know, CKR.) I mean, unless you assume that he was looking for her to assassinate her or something. He was the one who suggested that she had some sort of destiny, right?

why there weren't any male sexbot type cylons

'cause a man invented them?

'cause a man invented them?

Well, technically a Cylon invented them.

I thought that the human-type cylons were developed by other cylons?

If you figure that human-Cylon reproduction was one of their big goals, I can see where having the Cylon in that equation be the female would make the whole thing easier to control. (Didn't work in Sharon's case, since she kind of defected, but I can see where a Cylon male impregnating a human woman would have been even trickier from the Cylon POV, in terms of ending up with the baby.)

I kind of like the theory that Leoban is the male sexbot. I don't see it as particulary suported by anything textual. I just like thinking about it. Hmm... perhaps I overshare?

one of the members asked why there weren't any male sexbot type cylons

Why should there be? I don't understand the the basis of the question.

Well, why not? The purpose of all the female cylons isn't to make babies -- some of them are just infiltrating society and being spies. Colonial Society seems to have women and men in positions of power not just men-- therefore why not male sexbots - like Six only male.

That doesn't clarify it for me. I don't see Six's identity as "female sexbot." If I did, I don't see why it would necessarily follow that a male version should exist. If a male version should exist, I don't know why there's an assumption that we haven't already seen it. If we haven't already seen it, I don't know why that means there isn't one, and that the absence of one must be explained.

I guess the assumption is that the 12 Cylon models are specialists only capable of certain kinds of tasks? I've seen no evidence for that. It is possible that they are all general purpose, which seems the most functional to me. It is possible they were designed before there was any plan to attack, so they had to make do. It is possible that they were designed after a very detailed plan was worked out, so Six was designed specifically to appeal to Baltar. Etc.

I think that Boomer is the female sexbot, in that it didn't seem like the Sixes were trying to get themselves impregnated, and she did.