Is your marriage feeling shaky? One UBC professor says she has an answer: sex robots.
Introducing a robotic element to your marriage could take the focus off sex and place it back on love, says economics professor Marina Adshade in her new book, Robot Sex: Social and Ethical Implications.
People have become 鈥渋ncreasingly demanding鈥� in what they want from marriage,鈥� Adshade said in a release Tuesday.
鈥淭here was a time when women were happy to have a husband that supported the family and men were happy to have a caring mother to his children,鈥� she said.
鈥淭oday, we still want those things, but we also want so much more鈥� we want lasting sexual compatibility, intense romance, and someone who is an amazing co-parent. That is a lot to ask of one person.鈥�
That鈥檚 apparently where the sex robots come in.
鈥淪ex robots, I think, will help move us away from thinking that we need to get everything from one person and allow us to focus on other qualities in a marriage partner, free of the requirement of sexual compatibility.鈥�
Adshade doesn鈥檛 think anyone should worry about being replaced.
鈥淛ust because we might enjoy the company of robots doesn鈥檛 mean that we cannot also enjoy the company of humans, or that having robots won鈥檛 enhance our relationships with humans,鈥� she said.
鈥淚 see them as very different things.鈥�
Sex robots, however, could change what marriages look like in the future.
鈥淢ore couples could choose 鈥榗ompanionship marriages鈥� that do not involve sex, but focus solely on the creation of a family,鈥� Adshade said.
鈥淢arriage will continue to be the cornerstone of our society 鈥� I don鈥檛 doubt that 鈥� but it will not be what we have come to think about as 鈥榯raditional marriage.鈥欌��
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