Sex Robots: Between Human and Artificial
Date
2018-06-25
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Polity Press
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Yes
Abstract
Despite a surplus of human beings in the world, new estimates total 7 and a half billion, we appear to be at the start of an attachment crisis - a crisis in how human beings make intimate relationships. Enter the sex robots, built out of the bodies of sex dolls to help humans, particularly males escape their inability to connect. What does the rise of sex robots tell us about the way that women and girls are imagined, are they persons or property? And to what extent is porn, prostitution and child sexual exploitation driving the attachment crisis? What is happening and what can be done? This book explores these themes.
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Sex robots, social robots, rape, masturbation, women's liberation, child exploitation, corporate personhood, Attachment, Sex Dolls
Citation
Richardson, K. (2018) Sex Robots: Between Human and Artificial. Cambridge, Polity Press.
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Centre for Computing and Social Responsibility (CCSR)