{"id":116017,"date":"2020-11-18T12:22:39","date_gmt":"2020-11-18T20:22:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/11\/bioethicist-we-should-give-sex-robots-to-lonely-seniors"},"modified":"2020-11-18T12:22:39","modified_gmt":"2020-11-18T20:22:39","slug":"bioethicist-we-should-give-sex-robots-to-lonely-seniors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/11\/bioethicist-we-should-give-sex-robots-to-lonely-seniors","title":{"rendered":"Bioethicist: We Should Give Sex Robots to Lonely Seniors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/bioethicist-we-should-give-sex-robots-to-lonely-seniors.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Newfound Autonomy<\/b><\/p>\n<p>There are ways that a robot companion could outperform humans, Jecker says, by providing sympathetic and patient support free of judgment and condescension around the clock.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt relates to issues of dignity,\u201d Jecker told the <em>Times<\/em>. \u201cThe ability to be sexual at any age relates to your ability to have a life. Not just to survive, but to have a life, and do things that have value. Relationships. Bodily integrity. These things are a matter of dignity.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Newfound Autonomy There are ways that a robot companion could outperform humans, Jecker says, by providing sympathetic and patient support free of judgment and condescension around the clock. \u201cIt relates to issues of dignity,\u201d Jecker told the Times. \u201cThe ability to be sexual at any age relates to your ability to have a life. Not [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":413,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1902,30,6,1901],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-116017","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bioengineering","category-ethics","category-robotics-ai","category-sex"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116017","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/413"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116017"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116017\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}