fetishes or a new form of transitional objects for adults?
“If you want to sleep with a robot, you don’t have to wait decades for an amusement park like Westworld to open. The future of virtual sex is already here”, site Mic
If today’s sex robots don’t yet resemble us enough to make it into Westworld’s brothel — the sci-fi series in which humans go to an amusement park full of robots — they are more and more realistic.
“Westworld, whose eponymous park encourages rape and harmless murder, only gives a taste of the ethical and psychological repercussions of android abuse,” Mic said.
For Mic, the fact that sex robots are almost exclusively females is “a big deal”. “It’s probably not just because the tech industry is dominated by men, but also because businesses started by men are more likely to be funded,” says Mic. The problem with this overrepresentation of female objects is that it could be confusing.
When asked how much competition there is from RealDoll, a company that launched sex robots with artificial intelligence on the market early in 2017, its CEO, Matt McMullen, replied: “human women”.
As if androids and women were placed on the same level. Of the risk that female sex robots one day promote the idea that humans are objects exclusively dedicated to male pleasure.
Compared to the idea of raping a robot, it’s not even about whether androids can have feelings or can experience anything. But rather to know what this domination of predominantly female robots says about our society. “The drive to dominate human-like computer hardware says a lot about our morals.”
But don’t worry, “Normal people would have a hard time shooting a Westworld resident.” It seems like you have to be a sociopath to replicate the things people do to robots in Westworld, ”says David Pizarro, professor of psychology at Cornell University. For him, it is also the men who already have difficulties respecting women, men attracted by the possibility of having sex with a robot.
Assaulting a robot isn’t a cathartic experience, according to Mic. On the contrary. “There is no strong evidence that catharsis works for aggression. As soon as scientists test the hypothesis that venting his aggressiveness reduces it, they find that the subjects in the experiment behave even more aggressively, “says David Pizarro. The psychology professor continues:
“I think we know enough about human psychology to establish that if you can mistreat a living being, which looks all the more like us as a human, it is good training for it. reproduce on a real human being. “
As controversial as the subject matter is, this “sex object” presents a lot of hidden parts in the process of full social integration, is there going to be legislations that organizes the use of this kind of inventions and as the field of artificial intelligence in the field of the moment, are artificial humans and animals going to be the next leap.
with this opening to the objectifying matters to the women, for now, but in the near future and I‘m talking decades, not centuries, do we have to worry about our extinction by our own hands like in those “ far fetched scenarios” in the science-fiction movies, is that what’s going to happen? There’s a good scientific paper that talked in depth about this by Kaufman, Ellen, about the robotization of our social life, he even mentioned the robotization of consent and I am quoting here :
“The Roboticization of Consent” Continuing the line of reasoning proffered by Richardson and Butterfield, Danaher suggests that consumers of sex robots for personal, even companionate use will remain “unlikely to have an appetite for the mutual conversation and objective performances demanded by our consent norms” . Gutiu bolsters this perspective, arguing that the appeal of sex robots is the “physical, interactive [manifestation] of women that are programmed into submission”
The article of Kaufman Elen goes on and on about statements made by leaders in the field of robotization for sexual or “ companionship” purposes, the fact that the inventions are mainly women robots, not male robots, these “leaders” couldn’t care less about the ramification on the social and psychological level of such product and I deeply feel that this is going to be the first step towards the destruction of our current social structure or as Jean-Paul Sartre would present it :
All human actions are equivalent and all are on principle doomed to failure.