ABSTRACT
Sex robots, once only found in the occasional scifi story, are emerging as a real life phenomenon. Early indications are that these sex-bots will reflect much of the worst aspects of sexploitation in the non-digital world. The impact of the Net on sexual attitudes, practices and knowledge can provide a vivid case study in how online cultural knowledge relates to the offline world. Granted, sex is a particularly charged subject that may not prove “typical” of other kinds of impacts. The Net has undoubtedly become the most pervasive medium of sex education on the planet. Sexual positions, or rather, positions on sexuality, in regard to pornography and cybersex more broadly, run the gamut from those seeking a total ban to wildly libertarian calls for no restrictions at all. Sex dolls have existed for some time, plastic things that take the objectification of women to the ultimate end, literally reducing women to actual objects, devoid of all subjectivity.
