Love and Sex with Robots
AuthorDavid Levy
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Publication date
2007
Media typePrint
ISBN0061359750

Love and Sex with Robots by David Levy, first published in 2007, is a book about the future development of sex robots: robots that will have sex with humans.[1][2] Levy claims that this practice will be routine by 2050.[3]

Reception

Kathleen Richardson of the Campaign Against Sex Robots wrote a position paper arguing "that Levy’s proposal shows a number of problems, firstly his understanding of what prostitution is and secondly, by drawing on prostitution as the model for human-robot sexual relations, Levy shows that the sellers of sex are seen by the buyers of sex as things and not recognised as human subjects." She goes on to argue that "this legitimates a dangerous mode of existence where humans can move about in relations with other humans but not recognise them as human subjects in their own right."[4]

References

  1. ^ Achenbach, Joel (2007-12-23). "Programmed for Love". The Washington Post. ISSN 0190-8286. Retrieved 2016-09-07.
  2. ^ Choi, Charles Q. (2007-10-12). "Sex and marriage with robots? It could happen". NBC News. Retrieved 2016-09-07.
  3. ^ Lloyd, Seth (2007-11-25). "Wired for romance". Los Angeles Times. ISSN 0458-3035. Retrieved 2016-09-07.
  4. ^ Richardson, Kathleen (September 2015). "The asymmetrical 'relationship': parallels between prostitution and the development of sex robots". ACM SIGCAS Computers and Society. Association for Computing Machinery. 45 (3): 290–293. doi:10.1145/2874239.2874281. S2CID 17328664. View online. Archived 2020-10-18 at the Wayback Machine


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