Child sex-abuse dolls and robots: fighting paedophilia

Child sex-abuse dolls are lifelike dolls of children to carry out paedophilic fantasies. Advocates of the dolls believe they could help to reduce child sexual exploitation and point to the lack of a ‘moral agent’ in the doll that is unharmed by paedophilic behaviour. Against this backdrop is a growing attempt to redefine paedophilia as a sexual orientation ‘pedosexual’ and moves to see it as an unfortunate but normal sexual orientation. We critically reject the arguments for child-sex abuse dolls and highlight the attack on children’s dignity and rights.

Chair

Kathleen Richardson, Professor of Ethics and Culture of Robots and AI at De Montfort University, UK and Director of WERAID (Women, Ethics, Robots, AI & Data)

Confirmed speaker:

Caitlin Roper, PhD candidate and campaigns manager Collective Shout

Bio: Caitlin is an activist, writer and PhD candidate at RMIT university in Melbourne, Australia where she is researching female-bodied sex dolls and robots. Caitlin is campaigns manager at Collective Shout: for a world free of sexploitation, a grassroots campaigning movement challenging the objectification of women and the sexualisation of girls in media, advertising and popular culture. Caitlin is a founding member and chair of Adopt Nordic Western Australia to fight sex trafficking and a Huffington Post blogger. Her work has also been featured in The Guardian, ABC and Sydney Morning Herald, and she has been interviewed by a number of Australian radio and TV programs including The Project and Lateline.

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About Us

The CASR is a worldwide movement that is for a more ethical, feminist and humanistic approach to computing, robotics, AI and future technologies.

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https://campaignagainstsexrobots.org/