What Would Happen If Sex Robots Could Replace Human Partners?

Abstract

This paper begins by presenting several key societal reasons for the rise of sex robots and defining them. By analyzing multiple themes in relevant academic books, articles, essays, and digital media discourses, this thesis explores the current debate about the possibilities and dangers of sex robots replacing human partners. In the context of the humanization of sex robots, the future of human relationships, and a media discourse that associates the use of sex robots with rape, paedophilia, and gender equality, we are seeing the artificial attributes of robots as a threat to a perceived gradual blurring of human subjectivity. However, there are positive aspects of human interaction with sex robots. For example, for the elderly or the socially challenged, sex robots can enable them to have a more satisfying sex life, even if they have difficulties in establishing relationships.