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What Sex is Your Robot?

Posted by michael on from the battery-powered dept.

Ant writes "Technology Review has an article about how the more robots interact with humans, the more important their apparent gender becomes."

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  1. Sex shops by moxruby · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Considering that a certain portion of the population is willing to have "sex" with a blow-up doll, it's just a matter of time before robots are marketed for the same purpose.

    I'm not joking when I say that the "roboporn" industry is likely to be a significant driving force when it comes to creating cheap, lifelike robots.

  2. Sex != gender by slashd'oh · · Score: 5, Interesting

    An important distinction to be made is that sex is not gender. Sex should be used only when referring to the biological nature of the object in question, whereas gender refers to a set of socially-constructed rules governing the objects behavior in society. To quote Everything2: "In anthropology gender is the accepted way to refer to a set of behaviors/beliefes often related to physical sex traits. You can have a gender that is different from your biological sex, if your culture premits."