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Robotics Researcher Starts Campaign To Ban Development of Sexbots
Earthquake Retrofit writes: A robotics ethicist from the UK's De Montfort University has started a campaign to ban the development and use of sex robots. "She believes that they reinforce traditional stereotypes of women and the view that a relationship need be nothing more than physical." The campaign was spurred by news that some companies claim to be fairly far along in development of such technology. One company even plans to start selling them later this year. The campaign's goals and concerns include "We propose that the development of sex robots will further reduce human empathy that can only be developed by an experience of mutual relationship," and, "We challenge the view that the development of adults and child sex robots will have a positive benefit to society, but instead further reinforce power relations of inequality and violence."
when they pry it from my cold, dead hands...
Looking at the woman
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
It's no surprise she fears competition from robots.
How dare you bring logic into this argument. This is an emotional appeal, damn it!
Exactly! Dildos perpetuate stereotypes of male sexual organ size.
when they pry it from my cold, dead hands...
Any sexual experience not based on a mutual relationship is bad, apparently - so they'll be taking your hands, too.
In a survey of 100 programmers, 111111 thought that duck-typing was a good idea.
I want the BLACK one, no wait, I want the PLAID ONE.
Mam, you can't have that, it's my thermos.
At the end of the day if your partner is unwilling or unable to meet your needs you have to figure out how to solve the problem, in general that can't happen without negotiations and each side giving.
I'll never understand my wife.
She doesn't like cleaning the house; I hired a woman to do that for her and she was happy.
She doesn't like giving me blowjobs; I hired a woman to do that for her and she got all mad!