'Call For a Ban On Child Sex Robots' (bbc.com)

An anonymous reader shares a BBC report: There should be a ban on the import of sex robots designed to look like children, the author of a new report into the phenomenon has said. Prof Noel Sharkey said that society as a whole needed to consider the impact of all types of sex robots. His Foundation for Responsible Robotics has conducted a consultation on the issue. Only a handful of companies were currently making sex robots, said Prof Sharkey. But, he added, the upcoming robot revolution could change that. The report, Our sexual future with robots, was written to focus attention on an issue barely discussed at the moment, he said. The report acknowledged that finding out how many people actually owned such robots was difficult because the companies that made them did not release the numbers. But, said Prof Sharkey, it was time society woke up to a possible future where humans and robots had sex. "We do need policymakers to look at it and the general public to decide what is acceptable and permissible," he said. "We need to think as a society what we want to do about it. I don't know the answers -- I am just asking the questions."

Comments

There is much, much worse!

[Frosty Piss]

Sure, I know this is a serious issue because, well, it has to be: Children and Sex are in the same headline... But I want to bring your attention to another, more despicable, more disgusting, more heartbreaking, and damn right more obscene perversion that is just out of control in our society: Robotic Sex Horses. When will these stallions be unchained and set free? God almighty, I need to go take a shower

Re:There is much, much worse!

[c]

But I want to bring your attention to another, more despicable, more disgusting, more heartbreaking, and damn right more obscene perversion that is just out of control in our society: Robotic Sex Horses.

If you think that's perverted, you're going to be in for a shock when you see what the Japanese are going to do with sexbots. I anticipate that it starts with "Robotic Sex Unicorns", adds tentacles, and.. uh. Well.

Okay, I need to go take a shower.

Re: There is much, much worse!

[Anonymous Coward]

We wouldn't ban sex with bottles - only sex with underage bottles.

takes one to know one?

[ooloorie]

There should be a ban on the import of sex robots designed to look like children, the author of a new report into the phenomenon has said. Prof Noel Sharkey

I think Prof Noel Sharkey is perhaps a little too preoccupied with the dangers of "child sex robots".

Re:takes one to know one?

[Opportunist]

Remember: If you think of the children all the time, you're likely a pedo.

Obligatory Futurama reference

[Nutria]

Don't Date Robots!

Re:Make their USE/DISPLAY illegal...

[quenda]

Won't somebody please think of the robot children?!

Robot Cruelty

[MrL0G1C]

These robots have been programmed to want sex and you're denying it to them, that's robot cruelty professor no sex.

Re:Make their USE/DISPLAY illegal...

[Anonymous Coward]

Ugh, seriously. What's up with expressing a balanced view and evaluating both sides of the story? Don't you know you're supposed to have a completely imbalanced opinion and be closed to logic? What is this world coming to!?

Another Orientation

[sycodon]

Just wait...people who are attracted to "sex robots" will be classified as yet another sexual orientation and will insist on marrying them, parading them around in public, and demand that the robot maintenance be included in their health benefits.