Love and Sex with Robots

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]

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

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 "[t]his 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]

gollark: ++exec```haskellimport Unsafe.Coercedata Would = Seriously Why Int deriving Showtype Mad = ()data Are = Are Mad deriving Showtype Is = Aredata You = You Are Mad deriving Showdata Thing = This Thing Is Mad deriving Showdata This = Thing Mad deriving Shownewtype Do = Do (Thing -> You -> [Thing])data Why = Why Would You Do This deriving Showinstance Show Do where show x = "Do the thing!"why :: Whywhy = Why would you do_ this where would = unsafeCoerce you you = You (Are ()) () do_ = Do $ \_ _ -> [] this = Thing ()main = print why```
gollark: ?!?
gollark: ++exec```haskellimport Unsafe.Coercedata Would = Seriously Why Int deriving Showtype Mad = ()data Are = Are Mad deriving Showtype Is = Aredata You = You Are Mad deriving Showdata Thing = This Thing Is Mad deriving Showdata This = Thing Mad deriving Shownewtype Do = Do (Thing -> You -> [Thing])data Why = Why Would You Do This deriving Showinstance Show Do where show x = "Do the thing!"why :: Whywhy = Why would you do_ this where would = unsafeCoerce why you = You (Are ()) () do_ = Do $ \_ _ -> [] this = Thing ()main = print why```
gollark: Gooood.
gollark: ++exec```haskellimport Unsafe.Coercedata Would = Seriously Why Int deriving Showtype Mad = ()data Are = Are Mad deriving Showtype Is = Aredata You = You Are Mad deriving Showdata Thing = This Thing Is Mad deriving Showdata This = Thing Mad deriving Shownewtype Do = Do (Thing -> You -> [Thing])data Why = Why Would You Do This deriving Showinstance Show Do where show x = "Do the thing!"why :: Whywhy = Why would you do_ this where would = unsafeCoerce () you = You (Are ()) () do_ = Do $ \_ _ -> [] this = Thing ()main = print why```

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". 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.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link) View online.


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