Sex robots

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A sex robot is a robot or an electronic sex doll which, in contrast to a pure sex machine, usually has an anthropomorphic appearance and is used for sexual acts or fantasies. The love for robots or computers is also known as computer love or robot love and sexual attraction is also known as technosexuality or robot fetishism .

Social perception and prognoses

According to the web series and future study Homo Digitalis by the public law and the Fraunhofer Institute for Labor Economics and Organization (IAO), every fifth German would like to sleep with a sex robot and half would not mind if their partner had one. However, only 6% said they could imagine falling in love with a sex robot. 85% of the buyers are men. Therefore, in the opinion of Kathrin Pollmann, researcher at the IAO, people see them more as toys and not as lovers.

The artificial intelligence Researchers David Levy holds Sexroboter 2050 for a common practice and goes in his book Love and Sex with Robots discuss it in detail. Business IT specialist Oliver Bendel, on the other hand, believes that this market will remain a niche market , and refers, among other things, to the high purchase price of an average of 10,000 US dollars and the rather difficult secrecy in a household compared to other sex toys.

The cognitive scientist Martin Fischer from the University of Potsdam considers the topic to be an important research topic for many scientific areas, it is no longer science fiction and represents an existing market. According to some researchers, external features are not the decisive components for successful social interaction, but language , gaze behavior as signals and tactile properties such as body heat . Due to a lack of research, it is difficult to assess how such robots will affect the prostitution and porn industry .

Johannes Grenzfurthner , curator of the sex technology conference Arse Elektronika , deals in his publications with the history of sex robots and their development. His analysis is that sex robots will be an integral part of the future sexual landscape, a trend that has been traced for twenty years. The media interest in the topic is great and popular cultural ideas, especially from the science fiction area, have motivated numerous engineers and researchers to advance the construction of sex robots.

Individual incentives & preference structures

In an online study in which 261 test subjects took part, individual preference patterns and connections with other psychological constructs were examined. Based on the Japanese phenomenon otaku , which describes withdrawn people with a high affinity for fictional manga characters, individual differences in anime and manga -andom, interest in Japanese culture, preference for indoor activities, and shyness with regard to the incentive were identified examined by sex robots. Within the online survey, the test subjects read one of three randomly selected articles on future technologies (sex robots, care robots & genetically modified organisms) and then reported their overall assessment, the perceived eeriness and contact and purchase intentions. The results showed that higher scores in anime and manga fandom were associated with higher incentives for all three areas. In the male sub-sample, there was a strong correlation between shyness and contact and purchase intentions, especially for sex robots and genetically modified organisms.

criticism

Consumption and Use

The lack of a feeling of love , security and emotionality of a sex robot, whose gestures , facial expressions and language seemed fixed and stereotyped for many , is criticized . In addition, appropriate physical reactions and sensory perception would be missing and an interaction with a sex robot would still feel lonely , alienating and strange. It is also criticized that women and even children are degraded to objects of pleasure and that false clichés and stereotypes can be coined. Furthermore, strict cleaning and hygiene regulations would have to apply in order to prevent diseases. Due to the frictionlessness and lack of tension, which represent an interplay between longing , excitement and calm, such relationships are usually perceived as boring. In addition, even with sex robots (especially in the Internet of Things ), adequate security against hacker attacks could not always be offered, which could lead to manipulation or data misuse .

Ethical issues

In ethics , the question arises of how realistic, human-like and realistic the robots should be constructed in terms of their shape and behavior and to what extent they influence traditional relationships, sexualities and values. In addition, the creation of child-like robots raises many questions, for example whether pedophilia takes place here , is promoted or can even be seen as a substitute for an incurable tendency. There are hardly any empirical findings on this. The subjects of rape , forced prostitution and sexual abuse are also viewed critically . So a limitless offer can lead to wrong values ​​and expectations. It is considered whether sex robots should also be able to refuse sex and whether in such a case it would be abuse or rape if they were used for sex anyway.

Examples

  • In Barcelona there is a brothel with electronic sex dolls that should be adapted to the wishes of the customers.
  • The manufacturer of lifelike sex toys Realdoll is working on prototypes of sex robots with artificial intelligence .
  • In addition to real robots, virtual bots can also be used , for example in computer games or language software such as Siri , to recreate sexual situations and act out fantasies.

Individual evidence

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  2. ↑ a b c Wenke Husmann: We have to talk: Is sex with robots the new thing? | ZEITmagazin . In: The time . September 20, 2017, ISSN  0044-2070 ( zeit.de [accessed January 9, 2018]).
  3. ↑ a b How it feels to have sex with a robot . In: www.t-online.de . ( t-online.de [accessed on January 9, 2018]).
  4. ↑ Anna Gröhn, Angela Gruber, Teresa Sickert: Sex with machines: The robot is always cool . In: Spiegel Online . December 19, 2016 ( spiegel.de [accessed January 9, 2018]).
  5. ↑ Jan Petter bento: We talked to a sex robot developer about cheap sex toys, C3P0 and patriarchy. Retrieved March 18, 2019 .
  6. ^ Johannes Grenzfurthner, Günther Friesinger, Daniel Fabry: pr0nnovation? Pornography and Technological Innovation . RE / Search, edition mono / monochrom,, ISBN 978-1-889307-20-6 (accessed February 24, 2019).
  7. ^ Johannes Grenzfurthner, Günther Friesinger, Daniel Fabry: Do Androids Sleep with Electric Sheep? Critical Perspectives on Sexuality and Pornography in Science and Social Fiction . RE / Search, edition mono / monochrom,, ISBN 978-1-889307-23-7 (Accessed February 24, 2019).
  8. ^ Johannes Grenzfurthner, Günther Friesinger, Daniel Fabry: Of Intercourse and Intracourse - Sexuality, Biomodification and the Techno-Social Sphere . RE / Search, edition mono / monochrom,, ISBN 978-3-902796-02-8 (Accessed February 24, 2019).
  9. ^ Johannes Grenzfurthner, Günther Friesinger, Daniel Fabry: Screw The System - Explorations of Spaces, Games and Politics through Sexuality and Technology . RE / Search, edition mono / monochrom,, ISBN 978-3-902796-16-5 (accessed February 24, 2019).
  10. ^ Markus Appel, Caroline Marker, Martina Mara: Otakuism and the Appeal of Sex Robots . In: Frontiers in Psychology . tape 10 , 2019, ISSN  1664-1078 , doi : 10.3389 / fpsyg.2019.00569 , PMID 30984059 , PMC 6449875 (free full text) - ( frontiersin.org [accessed February 17, 2020]).
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  12. ↑ About . In: Campaign Against Sex Robots . September 12, 2015 ( campaignagainstsexrobots.org [accessed January 9, 2018]).
  13. ↑ Comment by Christoph Behrens: Sex with a robot, a good idea? In: sueddeutsche.de . 2016, ISSN  0174-4917 ( sueddeutsche.de [accessed on January 9, 2018]).
  14. ↑ Scientist starts campaign against sex robots . In: computerbild.de . ( computerbild.de [accessed on January 9, 2018]).
  15. ↑ Panagiotis Kolokythas: Expert warns of danger from sex robots . In: PC WORLD . ( pcwelt.de [accessed on January 9, 2018]).
  16. ↑ Rent Sex Doll. Retrieved January 9, 2018 .
  17. ↑ Realdoll equips the first sex robots with artificial intelligence . In: GIGA . October 20, 2016 ( giga.de [accessed January 9, 2018]).