Robots are no longer limited to the realm of science fiction and representation.  There is much debate, and many unanswered questions, surrounding the ethics involved with androids/robots/etc.  This becomes increasingly complicated when when we consider the production of robots as female sex-dolls.   What would you envision as a ‘reasonable limit’ to ‘sexbot’ use?  Do you agree that legislation should be passed to limit or prohibit the production of sexbots?  What about androids?  What ‘type(s)’ of value systems/morality generate a rejection of ‘sexbots’ and/or androids?  Does the production of female androids/sexbots provoke a different response, especially in relation to the question of ethics, than the production of male androids/sexbots?  What does this say about the ways that we construct ‘womanhood’/’femininity’?  What might we infer about a society that produces ‘sexbots’?  What are some outcomes- both ‘negative’ and ‘positive’- that might come of the production, distribution and use of ‘sexbots’?

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