British journalist and author Jenny Kleeman has been spreading the word about the ‘implications of sex robots’ via publicizing her recent book Sex Robots & Vegan Meat. Up until now, she came across to me as being reasonably positive and balanced about what those implications are, at least in what I’d read or heard of… Read More »
‘Finishing touches to Alexa’ credit DS Doll Robotics[/caption]Like London buses, three diverse and rather important sex robot essays and papers looking at the possible implications of them for society, have all appeared at the same time (or in the third case, recently resurfaced). All three deserve reading, or even studying, and I’d like to give… Read More »
Jenny Kleeman is a British journalist who has published a book which takes a look at ways in which people are born, eat meat, have sex, and die – the very things that have defined us as human for thousands of years – are all set to be revolutionized in the near future. The book… Read More »
Sex robots that can move and talk, self-heat and lubricate, and even tell you the capital of Mongolia, are almost here. But until they can actually feel your penis inside of them, they will continue to be little more than sophisticated Fleshlights, and sex with them no more than advanced masturbation. However, there is another… Read More »
A couple of interesting articles on sex robots appeared in the news recently. Clickbait articles on sexbots appear daily, but these two are worth actually reading. Sex Robots Are Here But Laws Aren’t Keeping Up Another article that argues two things that I would dispute – ‘sex robots are here’, and ‘laws aren’t keeping up’.… Read More »
I caught this little comedy film on YouTube only the other day, although it’s been online for two years. As well as funny, it’s interesting in the context of the YouTube video I shared here the other day. Although a comedy (and I certainly found it funny) the ‘twist’ – when she is given her… Read More »
YouTuber ‘johntheother’ uploaded an interesting, if controversial take on the sex robot debate the other day. I do certainly agree with him in one aspect – when society is considering banning some product or service, at least first try to consider why there is a demand for thing alleged to be harmful. Because mitigating the… Read More »
Kate Devlin is a British computer scientist specialising in Artificial intelligence and Human–computer interaction. She co-chaired the annual Love and Sex With Robots convention in 2016 held in London, after penning the seminal defence of sex robots a year earlier hat was published in The Conversation and entitled – ‘In defence of sex machines: why… Read More »
An Australian sex robot documentary asks if sex robots are a force for good or a growing threat. As many of the comments underneath point out, they are certainly a threat to feminists. Given that the journalist in the documentary appears to be a feminist, then you should know how the documentary answers its own… Read More »
On behalf of all American women, Comedienne Whitney Cummings declares war on sex robots. At least she’s honest about it, unlike most anti-sexbot campaigners.
BBC Science, in a leading article on the site’s homepage, acts as a loudspeaker for the calls of ‘American’ researchers (well, one American female ‘scientist’ and a rather sad British female anti-sexbot campaigner) to ban sex robots. ‘Sex robots may cause psychological damage’ is the headline. And it’s not in quotes. It’s fact. Sex robots… Read More »
Alternative Russian news site Sputnik is reporting that RealDoll are planning to equip their sex robots (which are still not for sale) with ‘spacial awareness’ and facial recognition. While Sputnik quoting RealDoll representative ‘Brick Dollbanger’ might not be convincing for some, there’s no doubt that there are real advances now appearing to happen very quickly… Read More »
Interesting and informative piece on digisexuality from CTV (Canadian TV) News, with a variety of perspectives including the ‘founder’ of digisexuality Neil McArthur (himself a Canadian). https://www.ctvnews.ca/sci-tech/technology-gives-rise-to-digisexuality-an-alternative-to-human-partners-1.4747940 But with these developments, we’ve also seen swift backlash against sexual technologies, McArthur said, and he fears moral panic will only grow more intense as more digisexuals come… Read More »
Adult industry news hub Xbiz published an interesting piece recently exposing how ‘The National Center On Sexual Exploitation’ morphed from being an ultra-conservative anti-porn group called ‘Morality In Media’ into a seemingly respectable NGO that the media quotes and politicians listen to on all things to do with ‘sex exploitation’ – from sex trafficking to… Read More »
It seems that one feminist has taken a refreshingly unique view to the inevitable rise of the sex robots – if you can’t beat them (or ban them) then join them… or at least make some dollars from an ‘ethical’ version of a sex robot brothel. Feminist online cult leader ‘Unicole Unicron’ has turned robot… Read More »
Kate Devlin bravely puts the case for NOT making sex robots illegal in a discussion published on YouTube earlier this year. Among the other panelists is Booke Magnanti, known in for being a high class London prostitute in her younger days and who blogged anonymously as ‘Belle de Jour’, and a bearded low-T white knight… Read More »
Sex robots are pure click bait. They don’t even really exist yet (what we have are ‘smart sex dolls’) and are likely decades away in any meaningful form, yet online news sites are carrying stories about them nearly every day, and all because the public just can’t get enough of them. Even academics are finding… Read More »
Sex dolls are under attack! Or more precisely, the fundamental right of an individual to own a sex doll of his or her choice in his or her own home is under attack by law makers, from the USA to South Korea, to pretty much everywhere. And sex doll legislation is of course being used… Read More »