Campaign Against Sex Robots Changes Its Name – Sex Robots Become ‘Porn Robots’
In case you didn’t know, there actually is a lobby group devoted to the abolition of sex robots. It’s led by a British feminist academic by the name of Kathleen Richardson. Previously known as the Campaign Against Sex Robots (CASR), earlier this month Dr Richardson officially changed the name of her organization to the Campaign Aginst Porn Robots (CAPR). Presumably she has done this in the hope of cashing in on some of the momentum that similar feminist/conservative lobby groups are having against porn these days. She might also be attempting to counter the positive studies and discussions that have been emerging recently that suggest sex robots can be an aid to the disabled and the elderly, or serve as a therapeutic sex aid. Anyway, here in this heavily downvoted YouTube video, she attempts to give her ostensible reasons for the name change.
Although a lobby group, led by one obsessed radical feminist, devoted to banning sex robots may appear somewhat absurd and comical, the sad fact is that we do live in a world in which such small groups can influence legislation, and remarkably easily at that. That sex robots may be banned is very much a live issue, and I would suggest that the next few years will be critical if a legal sex robot industry is allowed to come about. It would be very easy to introduce legislation now to ban sex robots, before they even really exist, rather than in 20 years time when millions of them may be in homes across the world (imagine governments trying to seize millions of life-sized sexbots!).
How do digisexualists and libertarian sex tech fans counter such anti-sex robot lobbying? Through being vocal – that is by calmly and rationally dissecting the ‘arguments’ of sex robot opponents. Through the promotion of arguments, research, and studies that show the positive impact of sex robots. And through the avoidance of cheap marketing tricks, such as the ridiculous clickbait and self-interested claim by a supposed sex robot designer that his creation was ‘sexually assaulted‘ at an electronics show.