New Materialist Perspectives on Sex Robots. A Feminist Dystopia/Utopia?
Feminist discourses on sex robots and robot sex largely focus on the dystopian fear of an exponentiation of hegemonic masculinity. The very possibility of robot sex is put on a level with slavery or prostitution and is rejected as a continuation of male dominance over women. Proceeding from a femini...
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| description | Feminist discourses on sex robots and robot sex largely focus on the dystopian fear of an exponentiation of hegemonic masculinity. The very possibility of robot sex is put on a level with slavery or prostitution and is rejected as a continuation of male dominance over women. Proceeding from a feminist new materialist perspective and building both on the refutation of normative definitions of sex and a general openness to the manifold variants consenting adults can engage in in sexual matters, the article presents a queer alternative to this outright rejection. Leaving the beaten tracks of pornographic mimicry, sex robots may in fact enable new liberated forms of sexual pleasure beyond fixed normalizations, thus contributing to a sex-positive utopian future. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-23e9dd366dc14b439c516822d1ebd6522022-12-22T03:43:01ZengMDPI AGSocial Sciences2076-07602019-07-018822410.3390/socsci8080224socsci8080224New Materialist Perspectives on Sex Robots. A Feminist Dystopia/Utopia?Tanja Kubes0Gender Studies in Science and Engineering, Technical University of Munich, 80333 Munich, GermanyFeminist discourses on sex robots and robot sex largely focus on the dystopian fear of an exponentiation of hegemonic masculinity. The very possibility of robot sex is put on a level with slavery or prostitution and is rejected as a continuation of male dominance over women. Proceeding from a feminist new materialist perspective and building both on the refutation of normative definitions of sex and a general openness to the manifold variants consenting adults can engage in in sexual matters, the article presents a queer alternative to this outright rejection. Leaving the beaten tracks of pornographic mimicry, sex robots may in fact enable new liberated forms of sexual pleasure beyond fixed normalizations, thus contributing to a sex-positive utopian future.https://www.mdpi.com/2076-0760/8/8/224new materialismsex robotsrobot sextransversalismhuman–machine interactionsex-positivediffractive designqueer studies |
| spellingShingle | Tanja Kubes New Materialist Perspectives on Sex Robots. A Feminist Dystopia/Utopia? Social Sciences new materialism sex robots robot sex transversalism human–machine interaction sex-positive diffractive design queer studies |
| title | New Materialist Perspectives on Sex Robots. A Feminist Dystopia/Utopia? |
| title_full | New Materialist Perspectives on Sex Robots. A Feminist Dystopia/Utopia? |
| title_fullStr | New Materialist Perspectives on Sex Robots. A Feminist Dystopia/Utopia? |
| title_full_unstemmed | New Materialist Perspectives on Sex Robots. A Feminist Dystopia/Utopia? |
| title_short | New Materialist Perspectives on Sex Robots. A Feminist Dystopia/Utopia? |
| title_sort | new materialist perspectives on sex robots a feminist dystopia utopia |
| topic | new materialism sex robots robot sex transversalism human–machine interaction sex-positive diffractive design queer studies |
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