Редактирование: Sex robots

[[File:Gigolo-joe-and-gigolo-jane-in-spielbergs-a-i-artificial-intelligence.jpg|right|thumb|A female and male sex robot from the film [[AI (film)|AI]]]]
'''Sex robots''' are an emerging technology for the sex toy industry, potentially replacing inflatable sex toys with robotic gynoids.

== Today ==
Sex robots are criticized and feared by some people, mostly traditional [[Feminism and transhumanism|feminists]]<ref>[https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/jun/10/feminism-sex-robots-women-technology-objectify  At last, a cure for feminism: sex robots]</ref> and [[Technoconservatism|technoconservatives]], concerned people may lose interest on real women/men and favour sex robots for rest of their lives, While few even think is metaphor to some person's inter misogyny or (very rarely) misandry.<ref>[http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-34118482 "BBC.com: Intelligent machines: Call for a ban on robots designed as sex toys"]</ref> Both transhumanists and non-transhumanists countered how counter-productive and infective a ban would be. Web news channel [[The Young Turks]] highlighted the impossibility of banning them to be consequential on both social and technological benefits.<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PTc-6JPF9o0 Will Sex Robots Make Real Women Obsolete?]</ref>

The tabloid press are always happy to cover sex robots.<ref>[http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/weird-news/man-builds-scarlet-johansson-robot-7667715 Man builds 'Scarlett Johansson' robot from scratch to 'fulfil childhood dream' - and it's scarily lifelike]</ref>

A study presented in the 2016 international conferences on [[Human-Robot interaction]] revealed a complex and differing set of attitudes towards sex robots, with women being far less interested than men.<ref>[http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/lovesick-cyborg/2016/03/10/women-men-want-sex-robots/ What Women and Men Want from Sex Robots]</ref>

In September 2016 a London 'fellatio cafe' serviced by sex-bots was announced.<ref>[https://www.rt.com/uk/361200-robot-sex-cafe-london/ Sex robot cafe aims to offer Londoners fellatio with their morning coffee]</ref>

In October 2016 a report was released saying how virtual assistant devices were increasingly being used for sexually explicit conversations.<ref>[http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/lonely-men-are-increasingly-talking-dirty-virtual-assistants-like-siri-cortana-1588620 Lonely men are increasingly 'talking dirty' to virtual assistants like Siri and Cortana]</ref>

In February 2017 it was reported that a brothel in Barcelona had opened using what were referred to as "sex dolls". <ref>[https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/2970453/first-sex-doll-brothel-in-europe/ PLASTIC FANTASTIC First sex doll brothel in Europe opens in Barcelona where punters can ‘fulfil fantasies without any limit’]</ref> This news was followed in March of the same year with reports that said the brothel had been forced out after protests by sex trade workers who complained it was stealing their clients. <ref>[http://www.express.co.uk/news/world/779841/Sex-robot-brothel-Lumidolls-Barcelona-prostitutes-complain-police Europe’s first sex robot brothel FORCED OUT of base as prostitutes complain of competition]</ref>

== In fiction ==
The concept has been around since classical antiquity via automatons, and Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale features a statue coming to life as well as ETA Hoffmann's The Sandman.<ref name="history" />

In [[Futurama]], it claims is established that human civilisations once collapsed from several centuries ago - according to the propaganda video -  due to the ubiquity of sex robots distracting the world's populace from expending efforts on anything else at all. As a result, it became taboo to be "Robo-sexuals" and "Robosexuality" in their "Earthican" society.<ref>[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Pilot_3000 Wikipedia:Space Pilot 3000]</ref><ref>[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Dated_a_Robot Wikipedia:I Dated a Robot]</ref><ref>[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proposition_Infinity Wikipedia:Proposition Infinity]</ref>

[[The Stepford Wives]] features women replaced with robots to attend to men's needs in a servile fashion.

A subplot of 2015 film [[Ex Machina]] features the ambiguously portrayed abuse of emergent gynoids as sex robots.

[[Westworld]] features such robots as a permanent fixture.<ref name="history">[https://www.inverse.com/article/21590-a-brief-history-of-fictional-sex-robots-for-hbo-s-westworld Sexy robots are the focus of HBO's new show "Westworld" but this is hardly their first fictional appearance]</ref>

== See also ==
* [[Campaign Against Sex Robots]]

== Media examples ==
* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dbB-mICjkQM Plug In Baby - Muse]
* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rLy-AwdCOmI I Feel Fantastic]
* [http://www.songfacts.com/detail.php?id=2517 Are 'Friends' Electric? - Gary Numan]
* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=apYXa5uQAIE Sex Robot - Whitest Kids You Know]
* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ToStvsqcl4Qby The History Of Vibrators] with [[Dorian Electra]]

== External links ==
* {{Wikipedia|Sex doll}}
* {{Wikipedia|Gynoid}}

== References ==
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[[Category:Sexuality]]
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[[Category:Bioethics]]
[[Category:Cyborgization]]
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[[Category:Feminism and transhumanism]]
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