Interesting, I agree and disagree with various premises surrounding the topic at large.
I don't think it would be a psychologically healthy alternative for relationship fulfillment , but I think their might be a place for this
whereas it would be negative for the aforementioned relationship substitute it would most definitely be safer than picking up strangers
or sex with a prostitute.
also a few things about what Kathleen Richardson says "“Paedophiles, rapists, people who can’t make human connections – they need therapy, not dolls†yes they need therapy also what makes you think they cant make human connections, they are more often than not compulsive and have problems controlling themselves some of these individuals even hate themselves for what they do but are like heroin addicts looking for a fix, I am by no means a psychologist but if these robots could be used as substitutes rather than actual children or adult victims then why not, they do for drug rehab.
"she also takes issue with the gendered and misogynistic narrative that Levy’s robo-utopia assumes – the sex robot as a passive, female, object, purchased and “prostitutedâ€. Its users as active and male, purchasing safe sex on demand and avoiding messy interpersonal relationships with real women"
She must be one of those new age angry feminists that's tending more toward misandry, why is it when women have sex toys that's fine but when men have them it's weird or objectifying to women ? You can be sure they will make and sell loads of male and female versions of these.
Well if the relationships are that messy i'm not surprised.