"Sex robots are very offensive...My biggest question is why as a society do we need sex robots? I think human relationships are fantastic...we don't need robot to emulate that."
Kate Davis is a feminist, artist and activist who is a member of the Campaign Against Sex Robots team.
Having graduated with a BA(Hons) in Commercial Photography, Kate Davis has spent the past couple of years tailoring her artwork and photography around her thoughts and feelings towards sex robots.
Kate Davis' acclaimed project is titled 'Logging on to Love' - it is a series of photographs that explore the issues surrounding sex robots and cyber sex, and how the prevalence of sex robots is going to impact human intimacy and interaction in the future. 'Logging on to Love' was shortlisted in the Sony World Photography Awards 2016.
I travelled to Lewisham, London to meet with Kate Davis, who explained to me her ethical views on sex robots and spoke about her art:
Logging on to Love
Kate Davis first read about sex robots three years ago, ever since she has tailored her personal artwork towards sex robots and their ethics.
Kate Davis said that her "artwork is more provocative work that just plants a seed in someone's head and makes them think about the bigger picture of it [sex robots]."
Kate Davis' artwork supports the anti-sex robot argument and features images of somewhat distorted and aberrant robot - like figures. The artwork collection is titled 'Logging on to Love' and was shortlisted in the Sony World Photography Awards 2016.
Credit: Kate Davis 'Logging on to Love' / www.katedavis.online
Female Objectification
Within the Dr Ian Pearson section of this blog, Dr Ian Pearson argued that males could say they are objectified through the female use of dildos and vibrators, just as females argue that sex robots objectify them.
Kate Davis, however, thinks differently. She believes that female sex toys can take on abstract forms which do not seek to objectify men, whereas sex robots are the literal representation of females which are beyond the idea of being purely masturbatory.
