Sex Robots: The Transformative Risks of Intimate Relationships

• In Event: Gender, Bodies, and Robots in Everyday Life

Abstract

Sex robots: the transformative risks of intimate relationships
Wang Minyu，Tsinghua University
Abstract: Sex robots are a hybrid of sex and technology. The discussion of sex robots is still in its infancy. Through literature review, this paper argues from the perspective of sociology that the anthropomorphic intelligence tendency of sex robot makes it have the surface ability to affect intimate relationship, and the emotional influence of language and the expression of anxiety in modern society are the deep power to deconstruct intimate relationship.
The change of intimate relationship is reflected in the construction of subjective intimate relationship from interpersonal relationship to man-machine relationship, which tends to be symbolized and individualized. The most important emotional maintenance of human is deconstructed by technical tools, which itself is a manifestation of risk. How to avoid the risk of intimate relationship change, this paper will provide ideas and thinking from the perspective of emotional governance.
Key words: Sex robot, Intimate relationship, Risk of gender，Emotional management

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• Wang Mingyu, +86 13051776630