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Various companies already sell sex robots, or sexbots, which promise to be better lovers than any real human person could ever be. Not only will they increase our sexual pleasure, well-being and life span, sexbots will also never deny us the fulfilment of our desires, because they lack the autonomy that make human lovers so unreliable. Does it matter that they are not conscious and do not really feel anything? Is there something essential lacking in their interaction with us? Or does the fact that they cannot not love (and serve) us, that they will never leave us and will always appear welcoming and loving, actually make sexbots superior to real human lovers? Does it give them the “soul” that we crave for and that we rarely find in humans?
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Hauskeller, M. (2014). Sexbots on the Rise. In: Sex and the Posthuman Condition. Palgrave Pivot, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137393500_2
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