6 Religious Perspectives on Sex with Robots

As we look toward a future in which human interaction with robots will be ever more diverse and more common, one in which those interactions might include both sex and some sort of emotional relationship, do our religious traditions, traditions laid down long before robots were ever dreamt of, offer any guidance? There is no one religious sexual ethic, neither across traditions nor within them. From the explicitly libidinous carvings of Hindu temples to the celibacy of the Desert Fathers, religious thought on sexuality has run the gamut; religions have both celebrated and sought to severely limit human sexual expression. Thus, there will be no single religious approach to the question of whether sex with a robot is either permissible or desirable.