Sex robot fantasies

Sparrow, Robert

doi:10.1136/medethics-2020-106932

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“…Sparrow7 holds that sex robots (1) offer masturbation, not sexual relationships; (2) are expensive and unsophisticated; (3) engender false beliefs, which is disrespectful; and (4) provide simulated sexual relationships that are tantamount to simulated rape, which is ethically objectionable. In reply to (1),sex robots differ from other assistive devices because they can create the sense that we are in the company of others.…”

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