I guess you guys were right - women are going to fight tooth and nail to ban sexbots. The first salvo has been fired.
http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-34118482
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"Sex robots seem to be a growing focus in the robotics industry and the models that they draw on - how they will look, what roles they would play - are very disturbing indeed," she told the BBC.
She believes that they reinforce traditional stereotypes of women and the view that a relationship need be nothing more than physical.
"We think that the creation of such robots will contribute to detrimental relationships between men and women, adults and children, men and men and women and women," she said.
http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-34118482