{"id":21222,"date":"2017-12-10T11:16:17","date_gmt":"2017-12-10T11:16:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thevoiceoflondon.co.uk\/?p=21222"},"modified":"2017-12-10T11:16:17","modified_gmt":"2017-12-10T11:16:17","slug":"would-you-have-sex-with-a-robot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/would-you-have-sex-with-a-robot\/","title":{"rendered":"Would you have sex with a robot?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/64\/2017\/12\/Screen-Shot-2017-12-13-at-20.25.48.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-22036\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/64\/2017\/12\/Screen-Shot-2017-12-13-at-20.25.48-1024x529.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"740\" height=\"382\" \/><\/a><\/h3>\n<h3>Are sex robots a threat to real intimacy, or nothing more than a sophisticated vibrator?<\/h3>\n<p>Priced at around \u00a34,000, the thought of sex-bots becoming a reality may seem far-fetched.<\/p>\n<p>However, problems may arise if the technology becomes mainstream and prices are lowered. Will the practice of human-robot sex be normalised?<\/p>\n<p>Leading tech company <a href=\"https:\/\/realbotix.com\/\">Realbotix<\/a>, produces life-like dolls that can be interacted with via an app. Their slogan &#8216;Be the first to never be lonely again&#8217;, implies much more than just a physical relationship.<\/p>\n<p>Kathleen Richardson, founder of <a href=\"https:\/\/campaignagainstsexrobots.org\/\">Campaign Against Sex Robots<\/a>\u00a0said at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zeemaps.com\/map?group=2755831&amp;location=London&amp;add=1#\">2017 Web Summit,<\/a>\u00a0that the technology is &#8216;an outcome of egocentric misogyny&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>But what do young Londoner&#8217;s think?<\/p>\n<p>To find out, we went to a party in North London and asked people if they would have sex with a robot:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Would you have sex with a robot? by user6213218\" width=\"500\" height=\"400\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?visual=true&#038;url=https%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F369121226&#038;show_artwork=true&#038;maxheight=750&#038;maxwidth=500\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Words: Katherine Docherty &amp; Michael Ward | Audio and photos: Michael Ward &amp; Katherine Docherty | Subbing: Olivia Herring<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Are sex robots a threat to real intimacy, or nothing more than a sophisticated vibrator? Priced at around \u00a34,000, the thought of sex-bots becoming a reality may seem far-fetched. However, problems may arise if the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":476,"featured_media":22036,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52,93],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21222","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/476"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21222"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21222\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22036"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}