Please Don’t Have Sex With Robots
▻http://america.aljazeera.com/opinions/2015/8/please-dont-have-sex-with-robots.html
Robots shaped like human beings have always been categorized by gender, with androids standing in for males and gynoids representing females.
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If robots are for human work, feminized robots exist for the purpose of feminized work. In real life, a call-center program gets a female voice; in the fictional realm (for now, at least) gynoids with secondary sex characteristics do domestic or sex work. They’re predominantly wife/maids (2004’s “The Stepford Wives”) or stripper/sex-slaves (“Blade Runner”). And in the recent movie “Ex Machina” and the new BBC/AMC show “Humans,” the central gynoid characters split evenly into the two categories.
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