Sex robots : the end of love / Kathleen Richardson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Richardson, Kathleen, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sex machines.

Sex dolls.

Robots--Social aspects.

Robots.

Human-robot interaction.

Sex customs.

Physical Description:

vii, 197 pages ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, UK ; Hoboken, NJ : Polity Press, 2025.

Summary:

There are more ways of connecting and communicating via technology than ever before. Yet loneliness is on the rise as we begin to experience an 'attachment crisis' in forming and maintaining intimate relationships. 0Enter sex robots. Built from the bodies of sex dolls, they are created to help humans particularly men cope with our inability to connect. In this bold and trenchant critique, Kathleen Richardson explores important questions surrounding this emerging technology. What does the rise of sex robots tell us about the way that women and girls are imagined? To what extent are porn, prostitution and child sexual exploitation driving the attachment crisis? The author argues that sex robots are produced within a framework of 'property relations' in which egocentric Man (and his disconnection from Woman) shapes the building of robots and AI. Can this tide of destruction and disconnection be turned, and what would a revolution for the love of humanity look like? Presenting a passionate case for the abolition of practices that cast women as property, Sex Robots: The End of Love is essential reading for students and scholars of robot ethics, anthropology, gender studies, philosophy of technology, sociology and related fields, as well as anyone concerned for the future of human relationships.

Contents:

Introduction: sex robots

Sex robots, the prostitution trade and rape culture

Sex robots and vibrators

Child dolls

The myth of the male sex drive

The end of humanism and the rise of property relations

I-you interrelatedness

Conclusion: resisting property relations.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Richardson, Kathleen. Sex robots.

ISBN:

9781509530281

1509530282

9781509530298

1509530290

OCLC:

1030911031