Sex Robots: Social Impact and the Future of Human Relations

Preface.- Chapter 1. Introduction (Mark J. Cherry).- Part I. Digisexuality, Sexbots, and Other Twenty-First Century Innovations.- Chapter 2. Sociable Robots for Later Life: Carebots, Friendbots and Sexbots (Nancy S. Jecker).- Chapter 3. Does a Love Machine have Emotions? An Ethical Examination of Empathy in Human-Robot Relations ( Wang Jue).- Chapter 4. Nudge Nudge, Wink Wink: Sex Robots as Social Influencers ( Mark Howard and Robert Sparrow).- Part II. Sex: Shifting Cultural and Moral Norms.- Chapter 5. Why Sex? Sex-bots from a Daoist Perspective (Ellen Y. Zhang).- Chapter 6. Could You Marry a Sex Robot? Shifting Sexual Norms and the Transformation of the Family (Mark J. Cherry).- Chapter 7. The Moral Significance of Human-Likeness in Sex Robots: A Confucian Perspective (Lawrence Yung).- Chapter 8. What Kinds of Use of Sex Robots Can be Morally Allowed? A Confucian Perspective (Hanhui Xu).- Chapter 9. Simulated Sex: On the Public Health Crisis of Unbridled Eroticism (Ryan Nash).- Part III. Reponses and Critique.- Chapter 10. Response and Critique to Part I.- Chapter 11: Response and Critique to Part II (Ruiping Fan)