Remember, dating androids has certain risks:
http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/android_boyfriend.png

But aside from that, if I have root access to the androids system, I can also see certain advantages...

Coming to think of it, Dollman would make for quite an awesome 3D shooter setting, kinda like when you're shrunk in Duke but permanent. And the evil toys from the sequel would serve nicely as level bosses and add a little survival horror touch to things because first person survival horror is apparently what's in nowadays. Although, if you play as Dollman you wouldn't really need to feel afraid, because you're Dollman.

interesting how only 4 people actually said yea or nay... rest dance around the answer ;)

I was thinking more in the lines of "Weird Science" :P

To paraphrase Aristotle: an android is a talking tool; a tool is a mute android.
If there actually WAS a SOUL (wretch in disgust at the word all you want), a MIND there, I'd prefer to call it a "cyborg", a creature artificial in flesh only...

How do you people feel about having "waifus"? What if you could have realistically simulated waifus? Dating an android, to a person honest with themselves, would be nothing more than a constant process of role-playing, pretending that they're dealing with an actual person, not merely algorithms firing away from in a programmed shell. It's kinda like treating Roombas as pets - cute, as long as you're aware of it all merely being make-belief. If people create, program, popularize androids, and suddenly start behaving as if they were not dealing with their own creations (wired to suit their taste, shaped in their image, made to act in their likeness) will be the moment of ultimate "alienation", to use a marxist term...

I would prefer a shag-bot to an android as a real girlfriend. Yet I would still rathera real woman then an android.

I personally find other people difficult at best, but a robotic partner would be less preferable. I know women go crazy at random and loose all thought processes at the sight of cute puppies and babies, but I will take real randomness over a fake any day.

How are humans really different?
A chemical programming that´s made so it can learn by itself, running on a flesh and bones hardware.
The only difference would be that you change one material for the other (given that those androids are as advanced as the human counterpart, think Blade Runner).

I considered that but Lisa wasn't really an android but an actual program. She was virtual save for them hooking up the doll.

EDIT:
I just realized I'm a 38 year old man and I actually just typed that. :P

yay that's my favourite show!

Very few real people have their own personalities.

Now, now - let's not be harsh. All people have distinct personalities, it's just that the majority have crappy ones.

What I mean is, since we are born, they are constantly trying to brainwash us. So very few people have their own personalities. I believe the only people who have their own personalities are people who are resistant to brainwashing and people who live in the middle of nowhere, far away from "civilization" and not connected to civilization(no internet, no phone, no books, no TV etc).

I have no problems with it. However, a being who can choose a partner of their own free will would have a problem with me. So I most likely would settle with a SAI, or Suppressed Artificial Intelligence.

Now the question becomes one of ethics: Is it ethical to prevent a being who could eventually possess sapience to not reach that plateau?

No. I'm a PC kinda man. Not really in to tablets and stuff...

(late to the party, you say? i never!)

It's funny to see terms like sentient, self-aware and feelings being used to describe the morality of artificial life.
Nothing in the above sentence has a clear and defined meaning, save (usually) self-serving interpretations.

So my answer to the opening question: I don't have a fucking clue. And it's not really dancing around. It simply is not as clear cut matter as it first appears. Unless one makes many, many (self-serving?) assumptions.