Regulation of Sex Robots - Gender and Sexuality in the Era of Artificial Intelligence

This book proposes a framework for regulating sex robots - human-like machines designed to engage emotionally and sexually with users through customisable, often AI-powered features.

List of contents

1. Sex robots in the modern age: Definitions, debates, and future regulations 2. Integrating harm and morality: A positive framework for prohibiting sex robots 3. The limits of criminalisation: Applying the ultima ratio principle to the regulation of sex robots 4. Regulating gender and sexuality: A comparative analysis of prostitution laws and sex robotics 5. Regulating gender and sexuality: A comparative analysis of pornography laws and sex robotics 6. The AI Act and feminist epistemology: Towards an alternative design of sex robots 7. Rethinking prohibition: The case for criminalising 'sex robot-mediated rape' 8. Conclusion

About the author

Carlotta Rigotti is Post-Doc Researcher at eLaw - Center for Law and Digital Technologies, Leiden University, the Netherlands.

Product details

• Authors: Carlotta Rigotti
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 13.06.2025, delayed
• EAN: 9781032909509
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3290950-9
• No. of pages: 228
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; Sociology, Robotics, Artificial Intelligence, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies, LAW / Science & Technology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Men's Studies, Systems of law, Political structure & processes, Gender & the law, Social Law, Gender studies: men and boys, Gender Studies: Men, Political structure and processes, Law and society, gender issues, Social law and Medical law