To browse Academia. The paper explores the emergence of humanoid social robots in the context of sex tourism, proposing a futuristic scenario where robotic sex workers are integrated into society. It argues for a redefinition of societal boundaries that have traditionally separated humans from technological artifacts, and discusses various drivers for this transformation, including the growth of the sex industry, motivations behind why men pay for sex, and implications related to human trafficking and health concerns.
The narrative aims to blend elements of science fiction with plausible future realities, emphasizing the increasing complexity of human relationships with machines. You won't get us pregnant or have us to supper with mommy and daddy. We work under you, we work on you and we work for you. Man made us better at what we do than was ever humanly possible. Thought to be far-fetched works of science fiction and fantasy, one of the most recent and significant developments for the field of science, technology, and society has been that of sex robots also referred to as sexbots.
This paper aims to examine the developing phenomenon of sex robots through a primarily philosophical lens in order to better understand the implications that the existence of these robots can have for society at large in a multitude of ways. Though a topic that can be easily joked about, one of the main aims for the outcome of this paper will be to establish how sex robots, in many ways, embody the Anthropocene era through the complexity of their existence—an existence that is intertwined with ideas of capitalism, feminism, technologism, representation, and moral responsibilities, or lack thereof, by raising questions on the ethics of sex robots such as: What are the moral implications of creating sex robots?
What does that say about the state and status of human intimacy? What does the creation of sex robots say about current social thought? Do sex robots hold any potential for solving social and intimacy issues? Is humanising sex robots ethical? And so on. By doing so, it is hoped that this paper will be able to provide a basic, holistic perspective to the reader, rather than produce a work that is completely biased against the topic, and help the reader to gain an understanding on the topic and perhaps form an opinion over it in order to gauge at the possibilities that the future holds for sex robots, and the consequences that accompany them in their development.
Keywords: Sex robots; sexbots; philosophy; Anthropocene; Donna Haraway; cyborg manifesto; ethics; morality; science, technology, and society. A number of companies have started to developed humanoid robots that 1 bear some physical resemblance to human beings, 2 have some ability to initiate movements e.
