[ExI] Sex robots go to court

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Sex robots go to court: Testing the limits of privacy and sexual freedom
by Jonathan Turley, 27 Jan 2024

<https://thehill.com/opinion/technology/4432313-sex-robots-go-to-court-testing-the-limits-of-privacy-and-sexual-freedom/>

Quotes:
>From a legal perspective, these sex robots are nothing more than a
ramped up toaster with a fetching name. Even the term “brothel” can be
challenged. In Paris, a sex doll brothel was opened and licensed as a
“game center.” The analogy is based on the fact that bots, in the view
of customers, are simply machines designed for recreation.

The bots remove the alleged victim in these scenarios. No one is being
directly harmed when someone has relations with what is essentially an
advanced appliance.

This issue becomes far more difficult, however, when the bots are
designed to resemble children. Such devices have already been banned
in some countries, including recently in the U.S.

In the absence of a direct victim, we are left with a pure moral or
social judgment on the private tastes and relations of adults.

In the series “Westworld,” “host” Annie asked a reluctant guest “if
you can’t tell the difference, does it matter if I’m real or not?”
Legally, the answer is no. But as that difference erodes, the question
as to whether it matters to others will grow.
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It looks like we are in for a season of moral panic, like back in the
60s when the pill became available and 'sexual freedom' became
fashionable.
Until AIDs and STDs made people reconsider. No STDs with robots, though.

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