Litska Strikwerda
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- May 2018
- ISBN:
- 9780262036689
- eISBN:
- 9780262341981
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- The MIT Press
- DOI:
- 10.7551/mitpress/9780262036689.003.0008
- Subject:
- Philosophy, Moral Philosophy
This chapter considers the legal and moral implications of creating sex robots that look and act like children. It does so by addressing the analogy between child sex robots and virtual child ...
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This chapter considers the legal and moral implications of creating sex robots that look and act like children. It does so by addressing the analogy between child sex robots and virtual child pornography. Entirely computer-generated child pornographic images are prohibited in many countries on the ground that (the majority of) people find them morally objectionable (legal moralism). If child sex robots were to be developed, they would (likely) be banned for the same reasons. Virtue ethics and (anti-porn) feminism explain why people find entirely computer-generated child pornography morally objectionable and why they would think the same about child sex robots. Both flout our sexual mentality based on equality, because they are respectively incomplete representations and replica of sexual relations between adults and children, which can never be considered equal.Less
This chapter considers the legal and moral implications of creating sex robots that look and act like children. It does so by addressing the analogy between child sex robots and virtual child pornography. Entirely computer-generated child pornographic images are prohibited in many countries on the ground that (the majority of) people find them morally objectionable (legal moralism). If child sex robots were to be developed, they would (likely) be banned for the same reasons. Virtue ethics and (anti-porn) feminism explain why people find entirely computer-generated child pornography morally objectionable and why they would think the same about child sex robots. Both flout our sexual mentality based on equality, because they are respectively incomplete representations and replica of sexual relations between adults and children, which can never be considered equal.
Nicholas L. Syrett
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- May 2017
- ISBN:
- 9781469629537
- eISBN:
- 9781469629551
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of North Carolina Press
- DOI:
- 10.5149/northcarolina/9781469629537.003.0008
- Subject:
- History, European Medieval History
In 1926 Peaches and Daddy (Frances Heenan and Edward Browning) were married, becoming one of the biggest tabloid sensations of the 1920s. Separated in age by about 40 years, their marriage led to new ...
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In 1926 Peaches and Daddy (Frances Heenan and Edward Browning) were married, becoming one of the biggest tabloid sensations of the 1920s. Separated in age by about 40 years, their marriage led to new understandings of child marriage as a backdoor to illicit sex and to rumors of pedophilia. It also engergized a generation of reformers, feminists, and social workers, most notably Mary Ellen Richmond, who worked tirelessly to eliminate child marriage in language that placed the welfare of the child first. They worked on many fronts, targeting sexually active adolescents and immigrant families especially, despite the fact that native-born white and black girls and boys were more likely to marry as minors. Feminists in the National Woman’s Party also joined in the struggle, working to equalize the age of consent to marriage and the age of majority on the grounds of legal gender equality, not child protection.Less
In 1926 Peaches and Daddy (Frances Heenan and Edward Browning) were married, becoming one of the biggest tabloid sensations of the 1920s. Separated in age by about 40 years, their marriage led to new understandings of child marriage as a backdoor to illicit sex and to rumors of pedophilia. It also engergized a generation of reformers, feminists, and social workers, most notably Mary Ellen Richmond, who worked tirelessly to eliminate child marriage in language that placed the welfare of the child first. They worked on many fronts, targeting sexually active adolescents and immigrant families especially, despite the fact that native-born white and black girls and boys were more likely to marry as minors. Feminists in the National Woman’s Party also joined in the struggle, working to equalize the age of consent to marriage and the age of majority on the grounds of legal gender equality, not child protection.
