Love and Sex with Robots

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| author = David Levy

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| release_date = 2007

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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.{{Cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/12/20/AR2007122002662.html|title=Programmed for Love|last=Achenbach|first=Joel|date=2007-12-23|newspaper=The Washington Post|language=en-US|issn=0190-8286|access-date=2016-09-07}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna21271545|title=Sex and marriage with robots? It could happen|last=Choi|first=Charles Q.|date=2007-10-12|website=NBC News|publisher=|access-date=2016-09-07}} Levy claims that this practice will be routine by 2050.{{Cite news|url=http://www.latimes.com/features/printedition/books/la-bk-lloyd25nov25,1,5170804.story|title=Wired for romance|last=Lloyd|first=Seth|date=2007-11-25|newspaper=Los Angeles Times|language=en-US|issn=0458-3035|access-date=2016-09-07}}

Reception

Kathleen Richardson of the {{vanchor|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 "this 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."{{cite journal | last = Richardson | first = Kathleen | title = The asymmetrical 'relationship': parallels between prostitution and the development of sex robots | journal = ACM SIGCAS Computers and Society | volume = 45 | issue = 3 | pages = 290–293 | publisher = Association for Computing Machinery | doi = 10.1145/2874239.2874281 | date = September 2015 | s2cid = 17328664 }} [https://campaignagainstsexrobots.org/the-asymmetrical-relationship-parallels-between-prostitution-and-the-development-of-sex-robots/ View online.] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201018012502/https://campaignagainstsexrobots.org/the-asymmetrical-relationship-parallels-between-prostitution-and-the-development-of-sex-robots/ |date=2020-10-18 }}

References

Category:2007 non-fiction books

Category:Robotics books

Category:Sex robots