Love and Sex with Robots: The Evolution of Human-robot Relationships

Love and Sex with Robots: The Evolution of Human-robot Relationships Love and Sex with Robots: The Evolution of Human-robot Relationships Article Type: Book review From: Industrial Robot: An International Journal, Volume 37, Issue 4 David LevyHarperCollinsLondon2008$14.95352 pp.ISBN: 9780061359804Web site: www.harpercollins.com/books/9780061359804/Love_and_Sex_with_Robots/index.aspx, Yes, robot love is a common science fiction trope, but David Levy’s Love and Sex with Robots is not a flight of fantasy. [...]we come to the final step of the argument. [...]as evidenced by the politics of gay marriage around the world, some people are not even ready to accept that any two human agents deserve to have their unions recognized, so how can we expect that machines will have it any easier? I suspect that there will be significant social and religious backlash to robotic marriage that could stall it as a legal concept for many decades.