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18 September 2015updated 24 Sep 2015 1:02pm

Should we ban sex robots?

A new campaign is pushing for a ban on the development of sex robots, arguing that they objectify women and perpetuate damaging sexual norms. Does it have a point? 

By Barbara Speed

Over the next few years, one question is going to crop up, again and again: what are our ethics when it comes to robots?

Should they be allowed to replace human workers? Should they deny us things we aren’t supposed to have? And the question facing us in the not-too distant future: what do we do when they start looking like humans, and people start having sex with them? 

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