TY - JOUR T1 - Comment on ‘I, Sex Robot: the health implications of the sex robot industry’ JF - BMJ Sexual & Reproductive Health JO - BMJ Sex Reprod Health SP - 78 LP - 79 DO - 10.1136/bmjsrh-2018-200251 VL - 45 IS - 1 AU - John Eggleton Y1 - 2019/01/01 UR - http://jfprhc.bmj.com/content/45/1/78.1.abstract N2 - In their editorial,1 Cox-George and Bewley promote a one-sided and negative view of sex robots (‘sexbots’), which they describe as “realistic mannequins with variable ages, appearances and textures, and customisable oral, vaginal and anal openings”. Three things about this editorial particularly concern me.First, Cox-George and Bewley seem to have constructed a series of objections to sex robots based on their dislike and disapproval of them. Their editorial is full of medico-political attempts to stigmatise or even criminalise those who use sex robots – with arguments about “misogynistic objectification” of women and intensification of “existing physical and sexual violence against women and children”.1 Why should the use of an entirely synthetic, non-human sex robot have any negative connotations? … ER -